A lesson in why today there is no dignity to be had, in creating a modern coat of arms.

first of all today they are redundant and irrelevant, and secondly they inevitably turn into a personal marketing campaign ?

The portrait ? > Vomit faux realist trash, looks like a bady copy of a photograph, to realist in intent yet not enough perception ?

skilled-ish but without the insight of statement and story and depth that a true portrait should be about.

Coat of arms ? and I quote from the beeb >

“The Speaker has also been given a coat of arms with a ladder representing his rise as the son of a taxi driver; balls for his love of tennis – one each for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – with the rainbow symbol of equality and pink triangles for his support of gay rights.”

hmm John no-one may have informed you, but designing your coat of arms, should not be treated as an excercise to throw all the vomitous things you like, plus vain statements related to how you’d like to be perceived by the public, into a bin bag shake them about and paste them on some coloured card ?

John :

I like Tennis . . . that has to be on there (dribble), one for each country of the union because I wouldn’t want to be perceived as being unfare to anyone ever ? and pink triangles and rainbows ! :)(why not some fluffy bunnys too ?) for my support of gay rights :), a ladder to represent the social climbing of my family. . . . . ooooooh and a samosa, I do like indian samosa’s . . . . . dribble, that will get the ethnic crowd on my side, ooh and can we squeeze in Doctor Who, and throw in some sabre’s I want people to know I’m a bloke ? and for a strapline can we put on it “all are equal” ?

John in case you hadn’t realised the majority of people, are not equal in anything, Pay, Rights, democracy, schooling, life expectancy, Sexual satisfaction, Happiness, Wealth ? I could go on ? The universe abhore’s static universal balance John, all is in fact in uproarious motion and unfair imbalance all the bloody time, so far in history it’s been the natural state of affairs ?

Christ what an embarassment the whole waste of £37,000 of taxpayers money it was … and this in recession ? did john ever delude himself this would turn out well for him ?