"Weimar without the sex"
From Christopher Hitchens' 'For the Sake of Argument' (Verso 1993) writing of the fag-end of the Callaghan administration:
"The end result was a sort of Weimar without the sex: the country mortgaged to the IMF, placementship and jobbery everywhere from the Washington Embassy to the Bank of England; and an indecorous last-minute vote buying exercise involving both the Ulster Unionists and the Irish Republicans".
A little tweaking and it sounds somewhat like our own times.
"The end result was a sort of Weimar without the sex: the country mortgaged to the IMF, placementship and jobbery everywhere from the Washington Embassy to the Bank of England; and an indecorous last-minute vote buying exercise involving both the Ulster Unionists and the Irish Republicans".
A little tweaking and it sounds somewhat like our own times.
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