Yes, today is a double bill of truly British bollocks
First, the ‘confidence’ vote last night.
The results were pretty much what you would have
predicted. A complete nothingness of spineless, craven non-entities producing
another fine mess in that Johnson ‘won’ the vote but sufficiently poorly to be
stripped of any remaining influence, power or necessary credibility.
Everyone with a political pulse knows Johnson is
done for though anyone with a shred of decency knew this was not the kind of
person who should ever lead a country. But the conman is out of con, the
charlatan is out of charlie and I’d say the liar is exposed but Johnson’s
inability – nay clinical aversion - to the truth – was a well-established fact
long ago.
But the failure of the confidence vote to bring an
end to the not-so-slow death of even the semblance of political decency is the
worst of all possible worlds. The halfwits and the ‘red-wall’ intake of tory
MPs nailed their colours to Johnson’s mast and know they’re only there because
of his Brexit bombast, jingoism and swindling of the British public. Others –
the cabinet lunatics such as Dorries, Raab, Zahawi have lied for him so often
they perhaps half believe what they are saying about their glorious leader. But
those who tried to vote him out are now in no-man’s land as is Britain. Only
40% of his own MPs openly support him. He is still there, still spewing out
bile but he and his craven cabinet are now simply the talking dead.
If this is democracy – all four nations (two that
most definitely did not vote for Brexit or Johnson) held to ransom for one
nasty little man’s failed ego and delusions – we need a new definition.
Meanwhile, that other fiasco – the platinum jubilee…
If you are one of the folk who think the £2.9
billion (government estimate) lost to
the economy for the extra bank holiday weekend or the £28m Sunak found for the
festivities while the rest of us cannot afford our energy bills or The Jubilee
Pageant (£15million according to The Times) or the £22million earmarked by the
nation al lottery – is money well spent at a time of economic crisis, social
unrest, global climate crisis, poverty –
then this week’s post is not for you.
Never have I felt more like the silent scream in the
Munch painting but that may be because
of the wall-to-wall monarchist slaver of the UK media – yes – the ones who - especially the BBC - so pride themselves on
balance and impartiality.
However
I tried to think of some appropriate way to mark the
Jubilee. Obviously I do not use the word celebrate as I’m not really into
celebrating privilege, protecting a creature who was into sex trafficked young
women (who conveniently gov covid!), racism (recent – M Markle – and historic –
all of history) and the ridiculous waste of money and attention when there are
one or two things going on right now that require our serious concerns and full
attention.
However, I came up with something.
On the first day of the tedious royalist weekend, I
helped to remove an old pigeon shed.
Demolishing a no-longer appropriate, old, crumbling,
rotten, structure that was taking up a great deal of space and possible growing
room seemed – APPROPRIATE.
And – frankly – if her madge can afford to fork out
£10million to pay off Andrew’s sex trafficked accuser – then I think she could
have paid for all this smalchy pageant mush too… Duty - my arse.
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