There’s been a bit of fuss made over Wyatt Roy, the youngest person ever to be elected to the Australian parliament.
On Twitter — the barometer of all things everything — he was lampooned mercilessly on election night right from the moment it became apparent he was going to get over the line in Longman. Then came a backlash of sorts, with some commentators suggesting it’s not kosher for political wonks to whinge about how kids don’t give a toss about politics, only to sling shit at one as soon as he shows the ultimate interest and gets into the thick of it.
The finger-waggers have a fair enough point, but here’s my take on it if you’ll allow me to indulge you before I get onto the more important matter of treating Roy to the Lovechild treatment.
I can understand and even sympathise with people coming to conservatism later in their lives after years of cultural and intellectual poverty, bitterness, paranoia and avarice and have taken their toll.
But it’s a scientific fact — and you can’t argue with science — that someone with the foresight to have bypassed all that moral deterioration and park himself in the Australian Liberal Party early enough to be elected to the House of Representatives by the age of 20 cannot, despite whatever decent qualities he might possess, be anything other than a complete and utter bell-end.
So there, and here, you have him — His Young Honorableness Wyatt “Top Gun” Roy:
Thanks to reader THR for the suggestion.