Like many in the UK, I was stranded away from home
at the end of last week because of weather disruption to our crumbling,
privatised rail infrastructure.
The real perfect storm however, was not
Eunice or Franklin but permanent ill-wind Johnson.
Few but the most deluded now deny that Brexit is a
catastrophe. And this social, economic and diplomatic calamity was served up by
the same walking destructive entity that brought us partygate, the
early, fatal mishandling of the pandemic and all the associated financial
waste, plus the proroguing of parliament and the complete degradation of the
office of PM. Add to this Johnson's clowning, lying and smirking, trivial
demeanour and we see why he has so devastated the UK's already diminishing
international standing.
When Storm Boris passes Britain will be clearing up
for decades.
And that is really it this week. What else is there
to say. In the 40 years since homophobic, worker-bashing Thatcher, an almost unbroken succession
of posh blokes has further trashed Britain home and abroad, squandering everything from
the much celebrated post-war infrastructure – sacrificed at the altar of
privatisation and profit and the international degradation as a result of the
Iraq invasion, Brexit and now the full grubbiness of Russian money-laundering
welcomed by London and the Tory party and now laid bare by the Ukraine crisis.
So – I’ll stop there this week.
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Kid's fun poetry videos linked to Fun Poems for Children
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can link this blog. I have an upcoming comedy gig which I'll post details about
as and when.