So, the UK election results were what anyone paying attention predicted. Roughly. Normal folk were – broadly - revolted into ousting a lot of Conservative councillors.
Ditto – in NI where many were disgusted by the way
the DUP, bribed by Theresa May with a £billion to support her failures and
representing a country that, like Scotland, voted to remain in the EU, have not enjoyed being played by the Tories. Having supported the party that birthed the NI
Ireland Protocol, the DUP are now recklessly holding the whole of Ireland to ransom, refusing to join the power-sharing administration, because they want rid of the very piece of legislation, the NI Protocol, that
Johnson used to push his abysmal Brexit deal through.
Up here in Scotland similar shifts happened with the
added nuance that the misogynist sex-pest Alex Salmond – (yes – written about
years ago in more politically positive terms on this blog before these things were
publically known) - and his new party (Alba) idiots and at least one outed racist –
got wiped. So, some really good news.
So far so reasonable.
But there is still the massive problem of the rancid
media diet-of-dumb being served up on a daily/hourly basis.
We can only speculate who has harried the Durham
police to investigate Labour's leader Starmer having a beer during a campaign meeting but
clearly it is meant to join a line in public perception between that and the
endless parties attended by liar-in-chief, serial philanderer and amateur
racist – the man who was too busy at the start of covid disentangling from his cancer-in-remission
wife because young Carrie was pregnant – to attend Cobra meetings.
The faux equivalence is the tool of choice in Royal
circles too. So, the announcement that the dodgy Duke of York will not be on
the royal balcony is firmly conjoined with the news that neither will Meghan
and Harry. So, being into sex-trafficked vulnerable young women – costing your
old ma £6million to pay off your latest hideous behaviour and fleeing the
country because of institutional racism, palace bullying, the vileness and
jealousy of your in-laws and lack of support is – er - the same!!!
And – while no one would call the election results
anything other than middling – it’s not quite the Tories did badly but so did Labour – painted by parts of the
media.
Labour have not just been fighting the vile Corbyn legacy
(and for those of us on the sensible left – the Blair atrocities) but also a
very Johnson-friendly Tory-afeared media plus the current apparent popularity
of both racism and misogyny in our civilised country.
In that context we need to extract and extrapolate
the results in a more sophisticated manner and recognise the fake equivalence for what it is.
It does leave a problem for the Tories because the
best time to rid themselves of the lying, corrupt, racist, useless blonde blob-man would
be nearer the next scheduled election so they can claim all the crap was about him
and look – here’s someone shiny and new. It’s worked before. He of course will
never accept he is the problem or that he has done anything wrong and does have
the power to call an earlier election. So, watch-this-space as they say.
And – should there be a snap election – even with
Labour’s showing and the rise of the Greens and the resurgence of the protest-vote-pros
the Lib Dems, do not underestimate the current public mood for self-harm. Just
look at the Philippines where Marcos Junior – son of mass murderer and
kleptocrat, Ferdinand Marcos and mad, idiotic shoe-wife Imelda is looking like the next
big obvious political mistake.
Plus, in many
areas of the UK that just couldn’t get enough of the racism of Brexit – so
called – red-wall areas – no such mild progress was made.
So – the answer to my blog of a couple of posts ago
asking would swathes of the electorate ignore their best interests and continue
to respond to the racist dog-whistle – is – yes – it sort of looks like
it a bit…
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