The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

The line is a compact piece of late-Victorian/Edwardian comic cynicism: both the weather and the government are perennial targets of complaint because they are large, impersonal forces that affect daily life yet remain beyond an individual’s control. By declaring them “always in the wrong,” the speaker satirizes the human habit of blaming external systems for discomfort and inconvenience, regardless of whether blame is rational or fair. The joke also hints at a deeper skepticism about public administration—governments, like the weather, are experienced as changeable, unpredictable, and rarely aligned with personal desires—while acknowledging that the grievance itself is a kind of social ritual.