So much smoke and mirrors. So much obfuscation.
Last week I did a piece about how much more
important it is to vote than to strike. Striking – like everything else at
present - is about dealing spasmodically and piecemeal with the shitty mess
that has been shovelled onto Britain by the self-interest of the wealthy over
decades.
Covid taught us that no one in the ruling elite
draws a line when it comes to lining their pockets. We only need observe the de-facto
profiteering that was sanctioned and facilitated by this government even though
they belong to the party that supported the death penalty for profiteering
during WWII.
But – as has been said many times on this blog – since 1979 and the Thatcher working class
punishment beating that seems to have never ended – every hard won post-war gain for ordinary folk in this
country has been rolled back; from snatching away free higher education to
selling off all the family silver.
Meanwhile – the current prime minister ‘legally’
benefitted financially from a new rule he voted for in 2016 according to his
last tax returns – and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
THE wealth divide has grown exponentially since that
other public school prat Tony Blair (war criminal and facilitator of the
private sector in the NHS and schools’ infrastructure) and his New Labour
project. Remember creepy Mandelson he of the Russian Oligarch pals who made it
a mantra to be very “relaxed” about extreme wealth. And so they were. In fact
the very relaxed regulation of the financial sector helped usher in the 2008
financial catastrophe.
Despite what this actively racist vile government
tell us and how they try to fudge the mess of a xenophobic Brexit the fact
remains, it’s not the poor wrecking Britain it’s the rich. Their pals own the
infrastructure. One of their own presides over what was supposed to be an
independent BBC. They voted to pour sewage into English waterways. They have allowed
the NHS to wither on the vine and have overseen the exponential growth in child
poverty and falling education standards.
Yes stop people traffickers profiting from human
misery. The easiest way completely resisted by the government is to create safe
legal protocols that can then be properly monitored.
However, make no mistake - the thing we need to stop
is THE GRAVY TRAIN.
The gravy train being ridden by Britain’s wealthy is
the problem. This huge locomotion has almost unstoppable momentum. Folk need to
wake up to the very obvious reason the gravy train passengers are always
pointing to the desperate people on boats as the problem…
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