…that even when covid recedes, Britain is still
SCREWED?
The issue we wanted to forget and that our lying,
racist PM told us was “done” in January keeps poking its snotty nose from under
the rug where it’s been swept and into the side columns of newspapers but it
hasn’t gone away and it most certainly is not DONE.
I know we’ve had a busy time recently. A tiny
percentage of the Tory party with help from a useless Corbyn, endowed the whole
of the UK with a PM who can’t work out when his babies are due (see blog 334).
We got covid-19 like most other countries but some of the very worst
outcomes. Then the US erupted (see my linked letter in the last blog post).
Brexit isn’t ‘done’ it’s not even started. And while
we use politer terms like xenophobia and jingoism – it boils down to an unextinguished
empire superiority complex – the same underlying and un-eradicated complex that
meant we STILL had a statue of a slaver – erected in 1891 – standing
prominently in Bristol. Until protesters pulled it down a few days ago.
Apparently it was ‘under discussion’ as to whether it should be removed…
The overwhelmingly white upper echelons of the BBC (that
has serially failed to address the underrepresentation of minority groups) and
the overwhelmingly white presenters of their flagship programmes have been
asking – with no apparent irony whatsoever - how white people can help
alleviate racism! And they've just appointed their new director Tim Davie
(ex-corporate type with no journalistic background whose qualifying factor
seems to be that he’s a Tory and might ingratiate the beeb enough to save the
licence fee). I believe strongly in a public service
broadcaster. We need one. I wish we had
one rather than just a broadcaster paid by the public. It’s not the same thing at
all.
Companies that didn’t get out when Brexit went up, are closing or escaping under cover of covid. The most incompetent cabinet in
living memory (in recorded British history?) have made a monumental mess of the
pandemic and also shown up what happens when you decimate a country’s services
with years of austerity which in turn followed decades of privatisation. But
that is because the cabinet of deplorables was cobbled together for one purpose only – to flag wave
Brexit through. They didn’t think they’d actually have to run the country.
Even car manufacturer Nissan - on whose prosperity the jobs of thousands in the NE depend and that was – as far as we can tell –
bribed by Theresa May not to bugger off after Brexit are now saying – they will
go if there is the no-deal this government is clearly aiming for at the
direction of the real leader – Dominic Cummings…
And the same ‘Rule Britannia’ nutters who were
blabbering on about reclaiming borders and taking back control, are preparing
to hook up with US agriculture that has lower standards in almost every
conceivable way to the food standards we’ve shared with the EU. If, in future,
Britain wants to raise those standards it will have to go cap in hand to US agri
monoliths. So – it’s not just welcome to chlorinated chicken but to foods laced
with pesticides at levels that would fell a rhinoceros.
And who is going to suffer the most? Those at the
bottom as always. Those in fact who suffered worst under the pandemic and the
lockdown.
I mean – I’m just saying. You know when we thought
Brexit / Trump was as bad as it could get and then it just kept getting worse
and then we got covid 19 – well – all I’m saying is - if you think it can’t get
worse than this – don’t bet on it.
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And on that note let me just swivel 180 degrees and face the sunlit uplands and
tell you that – as well as my usual Tuesday rant there will be an extra post
this Friday. I’ll be launching my latest children's book 'Fun Poems for Children' on this blog as I'm not on any social media and obviously I can't do it in the traditional way at present. Between now and
then I’ll do some calming meditation J