So, the War in Ukraine slips inevitably down the list of things the media can focus on in this world of trivia and tiny attention spans.
More people in the UK sink into poverty and
longevity in certain of the poorest parts reduces, NHS waiting lists grow, the
obesity epidemic balloons, the health of children is compromised from all
angles and access to dentistry is a matter of luck.
The mess the Brexit bastards have made in Ireland
continues to cause devastating political problems that were entirely predicted
by those with common sense back in 2016.
Vile and extraordinarily wealthy people continue to
whine about the fecklessness of the poor. Among others there is the
eye-wateringly tone-deaf MP Richard Drax who owns 2% of Dorset and whose historic
wealth comes in part from Slavery. He was in Parliament last week complaining
about the chancellor helping poor people (not that the poor have noticed as
food and energy bills rise, amidst the cost of living crisis and energy
companies continue to make staggering profits). But this dumb arse, whose
ancestors were brutal economic parasites on my ancestors, reckons his lot
(those who deserve to be wealthy!) should not see the country’s resources used
to save people from cold, poverty, health degradation and hunger. Yeah – right…
The Sue Gray report into the government’s breaching
of its own rules during covid was undermined before it was published by leaks
of a meeting between the author of the report and the most prominent subject (the
PM) of the supposedly independent investigation.
The full horrors of the Brexit trade catastrophe are due to hit us in the autumn as are the fuels price hikes and the cost of living crisis.
Boris Johnson has decided that the answer to it all
is to reintroduce imperial measurements. The fact that many imperial
measurements never went away is entirely beside the point.
Yup. Measuring the
withered potatoes or rotting carrots or weeks-old meat shipped from
Australia in pounds rather than kilos and putting a tape measure around an
obese four-year-old’s waste that measures in inches rather than centimetres is
the answer. Sure.
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