British Prime Minister Theresa May – who argued firmly
and logically to remain in the EU during the referendum is forcing through the
hardest of hard Brexits whipped by the lunatic ex-Etonians like Rees Mogg. She
purchased the support of 10 Irish DUP MPs to remain in power after a disastrous
snap General election. The DUP happily sold their support for £1bn despite
their constituents voting strongly to remain in the EU.
Boris Johnson is ex lord mayor of London where he corruptly spent tax payer money on the Garden Bridge fiasco and is a Brexit flag-waver even though he also
supported Remain at one point. He is a liar, racist (see
blog 184) and buffoon but represents the UK on the world stage as our Foreign Secretary.
Michael Gove is Environment Secretary, arguably now
one of the most important posts in any government. He is the prominent Brexiter
who derided experts during the EU referendum and recently scolded privatised
water companies for the state of the UK’s waterways forgetting it was his party
that sold off not just water but all British utilities to the private sector
(see blog 268).
Tony Blair is back being interviewed by the
mainstream media – mainly for his views on Brexit. This flies in the face of
what many argue which is that the xenophobia that buoyed up the Leave campaign came
partly from an intense and renewed fear of foreigners as the world tipped into
chaos following the destabilisation of the Middle East after the illegal
invasion of Iraq by Mr Messiah complex and his buddy G.W.Bush. (ref blog 265).
Privileged racist Nigel Farage was regarded as just another rabid right-wing nutter prior to 2014 when UKIP got their first MP - Tory defector
Douglas Carswell who subsequently ditched the party in 2017. While deriding the
EU and EU immigrants, Farage had a German wife – later apparently had an affair
with a French MEP, joined forces with fascists on the European parliament was
docked pay for misuse of EU funds (along with liar and fantasists and also one-time
UKIP leader Paul Nuttal) and will benefit from an EU pension. (ref blogs 111
& 191).
There is no longer an honourable third party to mix
things up. The Liberals – party of Lloyd George who as Chancellor of the
Exchequer early in 20th century laid the foundations for modern
Welfare – sank to new lows 8 years ago. Nick (cojones) Clegg sold out the youth
of Britain (see blog 130) to briefly enjoy power as a side-kick to David
Cameron (pig head lover) after the Brown disaster led us into the 2010 elections and a new era
where you were no longer allowed to call bigots bigots... In my view (based on no inside knowledge but only
how I would have felt) Nick Clegg broke the heart of former leader and real
Liberal, Charles Kennedy who died suddenly, shortly after the following
election where the Liberals were shown the political door by disgusted voters.
Tim Farron took the helm for a couple of years but bowed out when he – like
others before him – tried to use Christianity as an excuse for his homophobia
(which as a non-homophobic non-bigoted Christian always seriously pisses me
off). They went back to Vince Cable who was prominent and unpopular in the 2010
– 2015 coalition so although they are the only party with any Remain
credibility – they have no other sort of credibility so it makes absolutely no
difference.
I could say that Labour, the UK’s opposition party
is being led by intellectual lightweight and catastrophic Brexit ditherer
Jeremy Corbyn but that would imply that I believe the UK has a functioning
opposition in any real sense or that Corbyn is doing anything approximating
leadership…
America may be in the hands of a misogynist,
corrupt, infantile, semi-literate – quote-Rex-Tillerson – who is working his
way through the deranged and rabid TV personalities of Fox News to staff his
Whitehouse but the UK is in a catastrophic downward spiral of flaccid mediocrity (why do I feel I should mention David Davis here...). It is
mediocrity with powerful impetus if that’s not a paradox. And in another
extraordinary and surreal balancing act, the Working Class have managed to be both
aspirational and self-destructive in a contradiction of kamikaze
confusion.
It is the young who will suffer. They have been crapped on and they
will carry the can for this into the future and it’s not fair…
This can be summarised by a recent doodle and a
slightly older one…
