The heir to the throne of England exhibited this same trait in Swift's day; where the successor had sentiments for both the Tories and the Whigs. Political foolishness is also present in the third book, Voyage to Laputa. In this part of Gulliver's adventures the rulers, on their floating island, are oblivious to the needs of the people below; for the king and his court have never been below to see their strife. They generally had concern for frivolous, unimportant matters, and not the real issues that plagued the world outside their palace in the sky. They lived in comfort above, as they blocked the sun, withheld the rain, and choked out the life of their dominion below. Swift uses this as a comparison to England and its suffocating, restrictive, and unjust rule over Ireland, as well as in general for all unfair rule of the people in the world. Political injustices, corruption, and proper rule of the masses was something Swift felt very strongly about, and a great deal of his novel deals with just that. Unfortunately his satire seemed to fall upon deaf ears in the circles of political power.
Another point, which Swift wished to demonstrate to humanity, was the complete abuse of reason by the scientists of his age. In the third book he begins a harsh criticism of Europe's scholars and their emphasis on theological issues with no practical application by comparing them to the scholars of Laputa and the Academy of Lagado below. Both of Swift's imagined locations are places of backwards learning where the inhabitants strive to create entirely useless projects, argue futile intellectual points, and entreat mad logic while the population starves. All of the projects are impossibly flawed by leaps of baseless logic and are, in the end, without any gains for the people of the kingdom. In this comparison of mad scientists, Swift is not necessarily ridiculing the methods being used, but the end results to be obtained.