He may not be the most likely political commentator but it seems that Frankie Boyle has just about nailed it in his latest column.
As the nation digests George Osborne’s first true blue Budget holds, the comic has already warned Britons not to expect any humanity in it.
Writing for the Guardian, he compares the Chancellor to the ruthless House Lannister, bar his failure to meet the family motto (“A Lannister always pays his debts”).
But despite claiming that Osborne may even be one of the more human faces of the Tories, Boyle warns: “Your ruling class don’t care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless. Sitting down and trying to make a moral argument against austerity to our elites is like addressing global warming by opening negotiations with the sea.”
While picking out issues such as education, climate change and help for the disabled, the comedian brands whole system as “empirically indifferent to life”.
He added: “George Osborne has already achieved a lot as chancellor – for example, dystopian sci-fi now only has to be set 18 months in the future.”
Pretty much everyone seemed to think he had hit the nail on the head..
This isn’t the first time Boyle has been hailed for his political commentary. Last month his investigation of whether David Cameron is in fact an evil genius was particularly well-received, despite his history of controversial comments.
Jokes about topics including, but not limited to, cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome, suicide, Jimmy Savile, Katie Price's disabled son, the Royal family and the Middle East conflict have seen Boyle blasted by many.
No one has been safe from the former Mock The Week panellist, with those in the firing line including Labour’s leadership candidates, Richard Branson, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, Jeremy Clarkson, the list goes on here...
The Best Frankie Boyle Quotes
Lambasting Labour's leadership hopefuls(01 of10)
Open Image ModalBoyle had a few choice words for those running to be Ed Miliband's successor. He accused Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper of giving interviews "with the halting, guarded intonation of a hostage". He blasted Liz Kendall for having the "alarming air of an Apprentice candidate" but saved rare praise for Jeremy Corbyn, calling him "one of the few decent politicians remaining in the Labour party". (credit: PA/GETTY/REX)
Blistering battering of Branson(02 of10)
Open Image ModalCrippling critique of Cameron(03 of10)
Open Image ModalClegg's cutting castigation (04 of10)
Open Image ModalFuming at Farage(05 of10)
Open Image ModalExpletives for X Factor star(06 of10)
Open Image ModalMusings on the media(07 of10)
Open Image ModalBoyle was an unapologetic independence supporter in the run-up to last year's referendum in Scotland. In the aftermath of the result he criticised the media, accusing outlets of carrying a pro-Union bias in their reporting. On independence, he said: "I'm all for it. It won't happen. One of the reasons it won't happen is the media is just completely against it. There's a huge level of media bias." He also said that broadcast bosses were censoring comedy, and observed that current TV guides look like "the entertainment programme on a f****** cruise ship". (credit:JUAN MABROMATA via Getty Images)
Thundering thumping of two million Scots(08 of10)
Open Image ModalThe c-bomb is a certain favourite of Boyle's. But in a world first he used it to decry 2 million people, rather than just a choice selection of victims. Following Scotland's delivery of a slim 'no' majority in last year's independence referendum, Boyle blasted the two million Union supporters "c*nts". In a post on Twitter, he wrote: "I should have expected this, because if you'd asked me to estimate how many c*nts there were in Scotland I'd have said about 2 million." (credit:Jeff J Mitchell via Getty Images)
Censure of Clarkson(09 of10)
Open Image ModalOusted Top Gear frontman Jeremy Clarkson didn't escape Boyle's firing line, after the motoring show presenter was revealed to have mumbled the N-word singing a nursery rhyme in an outtake. Boyle called for Clarkson to be sacked from his top position because he was a "cultural tumour". (credit:Brian Lawless/PA Wire)
Saving sweet words for Sturgeon(10 of10)
Open Image ModalThere is one person for whom Boyle has some rare praise, though. SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was the subject of "muted horror" in the English media, he claimed. "People feel much more comfortable with the Fifty Shades of Grey version of women’s liberation: possibly feeling life would be much simpler if the suffragettes hadn’t wanted the vote and just really enjoyed chaining themselves to railings," Boyle said. "It feels almost as if the establishment is still assessing her. Which of the traditional tactics to employ: scorn or vilification? Do you call her the most dangerous woman in Britain or stage a smear where she’s a gossipy woman? Decisions, decisions." (credit:ANDY BUCHANAN via Getty Images)