Quisling territory?
So tonight I’m being wined and dined by some old reprobates from UCL with whom I used to associate. All within the grandeur of Lincolns Inn Hall, and the associated flunkies of doom and of course upstanding members of the legal system. At the time the invitation looked to be quite fun, now though second thoughts are creeping in.
First of all I have to gear myself up to dining with some complete strangers, to exacerbate the situation they are all barristers. So the prospect of intelligent and witty discourse seems unlikely. Compound this with the fact that the last time I got stuffed at a dinner with a bunch of legal creatures I found that within about 5 minutes I really did want to commit atrocities last seen in Cambodia. That said they were all undergrad debaters and had all got their fix of arrogance and stupidity for the day.
Secondly and this was the bit that interested me in the first place was that after the dinner, which should be good, there is a debate on identity cards. Which is one of those issues that has divided most of my friends in a rather polarising manner. One half thinks that the scheme is completely f!!!!ing stupid and against their human rights. Whilst the other mob thinks it is just a monumental waste of money and won’t do what it is designed to. Me I’m somewhere in the middle, in that I think it is a huge waste of money, won’t work and is a gross potential breach of my civil liberties.
The problem for me of course is that although most people in this country are wrapped up in this ID debate, my heart and bile is completely transfixed by another ID debate. I just can’t stop myself following the moronic utterances of creationist and their associated “professors”. All the while wanting to know where the tower and the gun is, hopefully one with a very large magazine and the sort of bullets that don’t so much penetrate people but more leave little greasy smears behind. Ya just gotta love dino land.
Right back on track now, sorry about that . Anyway the bit I hadn’t been warned about by the two reprobates inviting me is that although they have invited me out they want me to sing for my dinner. So a brief 6 minute speech and then apparently being part of the judging team (so that we all don’t get confused here they want me to make an abstention speech). So dinner, barristers and of course a speech.
My question therefore is to those out there is, now that I’m enlightening barristers does that make me a quisling?