The UK Government: Wealth & Poverty, Wedded To Falsehoods Or Lies About A Deal

Thursday 2nd February 2023

Here are our cards for today, and a much shorter reading.

Today, we’re using the Ciro Marchetti Fin de Siecle Kipper deck, a design from the last few years, but a new take on the original German Kipper cards which were originally published in the late 19th century/ turn of the century. (I’m sure now you’re familiar, you can see how strongly the cards and their themes were influenced by the slightly earlier 19th century European Sibillas. But unlike them, Kipper cards have, only 36 cards usually).

The Fin de Siecle deck has three additional cards, to reflect the English Victorian sensibility (and class divisions) Marchetti wanted to focus his design on. The extras that aren’t in other Kipper decks are Toil and Labour, Poverty and Community.

Today, I decided to focus the cards on what’s going on with the UK government, particularly in the light of the latest IMF report, which showed the UK as…