PLEASE…
…let 2022 be the year of COMEUPPANCE.
If you don’t have comeuppance where you come from I highly recommend it – it means
someone getting the punishment or fate they richly deserve. Sort of karma if
karma was an angry child.
Is it too much to ask? I mean, the rest of us who
didn’t carelessly trash the country (and other parts of the globe [Blair]) for financially beneficial popularity or sucking up to other world
leaders and/or the indulgence of some spite and racism or to deregulate the UK for
profit (Brexit) or starve infrastructure of investment for privet profit (Thatcher to austerity) are
going to pay – ARE paying.
We are paying with the underfunding of the NHS, poor
staffing levels, huge increases in fuel bills, a divided society and growing
gaps between rich and poor and falling longevity in the poorest areas. We are
paying. Why shouldn’t they?
Our inner 6
year olds have highly honed senses of fairness and mine is screaming and
screaming and screaming.
How come Chris Grayling got away with giving nearly
£8m of our money to ferry companies with no ferries then got promoted in
Johnson’s government?
How come Matt Hancock got away with enriching his
mates by facilitating de facto profiteering during the first year of covid?
Though it is difficult to know with any of them how much is corruption and how
much is eye-watering incompetence.
Talking of incompetence - how come Dido Harding got
away with wasting £billions on track and trace protocols that didn’t work?
We cannot go on too much longer with those who don’t
care not being made to care; those who have creamed off profits at the cost of
the misery/lives of others living comfortably and care free and
consequence-free.
We cannot go on with money constantly being funnelled to those who least need it through privatised infrastructure and government contracts, while the media roast the poor for being feckless. Things have to change as I said in this little letter published by The Jamaica Observer last week
I keep thinking I see tiny sparks of the
COMMUPPANCE fire – a little smoke – then nothing - a damp squib.
Johnson seemed a bit more bug-eyed than usual. Is
the peppa pig PM finally feeling uncomfortable after a lifetime of lying and
not only getting away with it but being elevated by our bizarre system?
Is Andrew finally sweating despite the chance that mumsy will pay off one of those pesky women? Check out JUST DESSERTS
Re the vile Tories who overturned the Dubs Amendment
to the 2016 Immigration Act – a measure the public approved of that was meant
to help unaccompanied migrant children, might they feel
some of the fear, cold and pain of those abandoned youngsters?
Maybe as part of all this, we could have more vigorous opposition? I’m just saying – as per my letter published in The Herald (yes - this blog is not enough outlet for my ire...)
I’m not sure what the proper comeuppances might be.
Take Matt Hancock. Members of his own party felt that
profiteers during WWII - that Churchillean era they fantasise about - should face the firing squad…
Is there any chance that the bully (that’s official)
Priti Patel might get hers? Please.
Tony Blair’s outrageous knighthood seems to have
stirred up the public anger that the media so blithely ignore.
Is it happening? Could it possibly be? Is this the
year?
Please let it be.
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Also check out an old post Rule Britannia - new lyrics
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