English government summarised

“It is agreed to by all really disinterested persons, that the government of England—not any individual government, but the general system—is one mass of immorality in practice, whatever it may be in theory. The whole working is founded on a system of conventional hypocrisy from first to last. The general modes of doing business are such as, in private life, would be called swindling, and there is nothing of honest simplicity in any one of the details. The Speech from the Throne, as it is called, is not the speech of the king, but a speech formed by his ministers, generally replete with falsehoods, and which he repeats like a parrot. Thus there is a commencement of untruth. In the Parliament, a member accuses another of political swindling, and with the same breath calls him the ‘honourable member.’ A general is, perhaps, accused of cowardice under the name of the ‘gallant member.’” — Junius Redivivus, The Producing Man’s Companion (1833)