In these transitional years, while we await the abolition of all "nations" and the formation of one world of justice and equality, may I propose the reintroduction of a custom of earlier times which has now I am sorry to say lapsed? Should not the prime minister, and the monarch, and the cabinet, and all MPs, and all judges, and in fact every one involved in the government of others, be required to participate in a weekly foot-washing and kissing ceremony? The feet in question should be representative of all walks of life: all ages and sexes, the rich and the poor, the more or less clean and the smelly and the criminal. In addition, parliamentarians should obviously while in office be forbidden from running a private bank account or handling any money except public money accounted for down to the last penny.
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I think a 'weekly' such ritual might be viewed by some as just a bit too "Uriah Heepish", Mr Grew ... ?
Of course this practice still goes on annually on Maundy Thursday by members of the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church. I understand other Christian branches have also retained it.
However, we mustn't expect too much of our monarch and politicians, surely. Miliband and Clegg wearing embarrassingly silly £40-a-time 'This is what a feminist looks like' t-shirts is one thing, but the thought of a smug-looking Cameron constantly posing in front of the TV cameras whilst washing the feet of a benefit-scrounger or illegal Romanian immigrant would simply be far too much to bear. -
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