As the real or fake Brexit negotiations continue – or don’t continue – the latest pronouncement from our blob at Westminster is that the UK should ‘prepare for Australia-style trade outcome’. I offer – in this week’s header to translate the latest Boris blah blah blah but in reality – like everything that emanates from the wobbly gob of the blob it's fantasy. There is no Australia-style trade situation. It’s just a euphemism – or lie if you will – for no deal where Britain will be free floating in an ocean of its own shit. Blobbo and Cummings and the other nutters in the fruit house at Westminster are fine with this because they don’t live in the real world but for the rest of us it actually translates to an Australia deal circa 1700s i.e. – brits being shipped to a world they don’t recognise and where they will BURN.
UK newspapers followed each other in 2016 and more recently this summer in dubbing the UK, again, the Sick Man of Europe. They claim, rather predictably and unimaginatively, that the results of the Brexit vote and the subsequent economic and political carnage – has earned that title for Britain once again – a term which it owned when I was born in the 1960s for its ongoing fiscal failures and economic weakness.
This
time we are not victims of a post-war decline. This time our sickly status is
brought on by a combination of poorly managed world events and a significant
dose of political self-harm and crass behaviour fermented delusions
of grandeur.
If
you don’t believe me look no further than the recent protestations of MI5 that
while Russia may pose a great security threat China poses greater ‘challenges’.
That word ‘challenges’, hides a multitude of sins/insinuations.
As
a blogger who derided the UK government’s reliance on China for tech and
infrastructure and was disgusted at our lack of sanctions over the treatment of
Muslims held in concentration camps – I am not a fan of the Chinese government
behaviour. However, what Mr James Bond fantasy is referring to is that China
has surpassed the UK as a world power, world influence and global political
player. But who is to blame for that? This is not a rhetorical question – it
has a very clear loud answer. Britain is to blame – or more importantly – the
English nationalism that has brought the whole union to its knees. We’ve not
been surpassed or sunk by pirates we have scuppered our own vessel.
Johnson’s
‘oven-ready’ Brexit deal was a simple lie. Nothing that needs translating. Our
world-beating test track and trace system is a bad joke – it needs no
interpretation. His constant ‘for us or agin' us’ declamations actually mean that if he
has no policy, is inept, uncaring and self-destructive and we – as citizens of
this small island - have a duty to go over the cliff with him.
But,
lest we forget – as the saying goes – this disaster did not start with Brexit,
it most certainly did not start with our 3rd world approach to
Covid. It did not even start with our weak response to the vulgarity and greed-horrors
that led to the 2008 crash and all the austerity and mismanagement of
subsequent Tory administrations. It began with Thatcher’s abhorrence of working
people. It was carried forward by a Blair government that allowed the private
sector into Education and Health with PFI and introduced tuition fees that now
keep generations of young folk crushed by lifelong debt and then – to top it
all – the illegal invasion of Iraq.
If,
like me – you actually like to link events rather than looking at what happens
today as a self-contained – could-not-be-avoided mystery – which seems to be
the way – you could not do worse than track the progress of Britain’s political
disease from Iraq – the rise of ISIS – global instability – loss of economic
confidence – mass migration s of displaced people – fear of both – and the rise
of populist politicians – because they ALWAYS come along and fill that vacuum.
So
– I query the press’s predictable dubbing of the UK as the Sick Man of Europe. This
time a better description would be the nauseating, demented old fart.
And
anything Johnson says does not require translation it needs complete disregard
because on a very strong balance of probabilities it will simply be a lie.
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