From Gavin Williamson (crap secretary of Defence and
useless Education Secretary) to Dominic Raab (shite Brexit Secretary pathetic
Foreign Secretary), Pritti Patel (Home secretary who was forced to resign under
the previous administration due to corrupt meetings while visiting Israel) to Dominic
Cummings (current Johnson Svengali), the path to becoming part of this British
government is to fail your way to the top. If, en-route, you manage some low
grade corruption, a track record of blatant dishonesty and a lack of scruples,
some barely disguised racism, peppered with excruciating arrogance and
stupidity then Boris Johnson will welcome you at the top table. He has all
these qualities so no wonder.
As the UK press pontificates about the choice of
Kamala Harris as Papa Joe’s running mate I am struck by a couple of things.
Joe Biden has – even before (hopefully) his
election- made one of the most radical choices in modern US history. Our own
party of the centre left has yet to elect a female leader and passed on the chance
to elect a non-white male when the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party was
recently up for grabs under the disastrous Corbyn.
The Tories have had two female leaders who became
Prime Ministers, the first intent on smashing the working class and selling off
Britain’s family silver and the second who gave us the hideous ‘go home’ vans
when Home Secretary and seeded the Windrush scandal during the same tenure.
Our current PM is a
racist misogynist with the morals of a stray dog, known for being a
professional liar who failed his way to the top. Britain is, now, fully entrenched in a dystopia where the qualifications for power are to be a privileged
white man or a professional arse licker of one.
Let’s look at our own deputy leader. He once
described feminists as “obnoxious bigots”, admitted – when Brexit secretary –
that he did not understand the importance of the Dover to Calais trade route
and thought ‘taking the knee’ was something that came from Game of Thrones…
I’ll stop there. His incompetence already makes him a legend in his own
wardrobe.
I consider myself a progressive and an egalitarian
who – under different circumstances (ie – no Trump) – might not have been
praying for the election of a Joe Biden. However, from this moment in time in
this country under this abomination of a government rife with incompetence; with a Prime Minister working through the dirty dog-eared pages of the failed Trump
playbook, our troubled historical friends across the Atlantic begin to look like
a country that could emerge, after November 3rd, as the real Land
of Hope and Glory while Britain is, increasingly, the Wasteland of
hopeless Tories…
An old doodle -
