It was a touching scene in parliament. "Esteemed colleagues, who are currently not in the hall, and whom I greet wherever they are," she said ironically. Popovic. He addresses, but there is almost no one. Parliamentarians have more important things to do than parliament. How good it is, they scratched with their nails to get in there, and when they got in, they got tired.
Because the salary comes regularly, that's the most important thing. He's not crazy. Churchill, it should be read again, all his observations, especially on politics and parliamentarism. We should not just extract quotes, but interpret him for why he said something. Why does it still sound funny to us today? Because it works, because only the upholstery on the chairs and the pictures on the walls change, and the parliament remains the same.
Because Zdenka's troubles as a parliamentary class teacher at that moment were not new at all. Someone else had used the opportunity to break out of parliament. Our people have more pressing matters to deal with these days, they're probably drinking coffee around the building, and the session comes and goes. Here's what the brilliant Churchill said about the British parliament. Explaining why he insisted that the House of Commons building be small, he explained that it would then be able to accommodate all the MPs at once. Otherwise, if it were large, "it would be empty most of the time." He obviously knew his colleagues, he warned them of the problem, so that, like Zdenka, he wouldn't speak to those who weren't in the hall. Čerčić claimed that at key moments, "if the parliament hall is small, it will be full, members will stand in the aisles and corridors, and the feeling of crowding and urgency will give strength to the debates."
Whatever you think of Churchill's works (political and literary), his views like these show that he was a genius who thought ahead and knew human psychology as well as architecture.
Here, in 2025, is a picture of an empty parliament and a speaker addressing the absentees, it is surreal but still real. Comical but real. The goal is obviously to simulate politics and parliamentarism. Just as government sessions are mostly held “by telephone” or more precisely “Whatsapp”, the parliament will soon be online, with MPs from Hercegovacka and Njegoševa, from the City Quarter, from their beds and cars, as they arrive.
What's controversial about that? Nothing. It will be easier for them, they will still receive the same salary, they will put some fake book background behind them so that they look as serious as possible while they speak, they will have a jacket, shirt and tie and they can wear slippers and Bermuda shorts underneath, who cares. We are well on our way to having the parliament hall used only once, to have everyone take a photo together as a keepsake.
Casualness is felt in the speech of the MPs, in their walk, and in their attitude and behavior in general. In fact, it is more of a lack of interest, because it seems that parliament is just a “side job” for them.
They did not take the task or politics seriously. They probably think they have everything under their belt and that God gave them politics. Until they stumble, and that will happen to many very soon, because they have branded themselves as accidental MPs. If so, if they have not delved into it (and do not read Churchill), they will soon be former MPs. No harm done.
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