This cannot be Britain 2022. Surely...
Do we really have a Home Secretary – Suella
Braverman – who is happy to admit publically that her “dream” is abusing
migrants? Just as the people-traffickers slaver over the money they’ll make
putting desperate people in un-seaworthy boats, she drools at the idea of those
same desperate people herded against their will, onto massively expensive
planes to Rwanda - a country that has been bribed to make our
not-fit-for-purpose asylum-seeker problem disappear.
Are we really keeping desperate migrants, including
children, in dirty, disgusting, over-crowded, disease ridden, dangerous
detention centres that would make a backwards dictatorship blush?
Do we really have a PM who was busy completing his £400,000 swimming pool, over a summer that saw record-breaking temperatures in the UK, global climate catastrophes on an unprecedented scale and raw sewage-ruined waters right here in a wealthy developed country? Rishi Sunak is a man who claims to want to give something back to Britain while in fact kept one foot in the US, ready to bolt if he hadn’t got what he wanted from his political ambitions and whose own wife avoided tax while he was chancellor
Do we really have a public broadcaster – the BBC- where the two top jobs are held by Tory appointees – one – Richard Sharp - a former Conservative party donor and advisor to the previous disaster PM Boris Johnson and the current unelected PM Rishi Sunak?
Do we really have a Met police force in crisis,
riddled with racism and misogyny?
Is child poverty on the rise and longevity declining
in the poorest areas with drug deaths out of control and foodbanks and now warm
banks part of our national landscape in a country that celebrated the birth of
a comprehensive welfare state after WWII?
Are the bonkers Brexit bastards still getting away with blaming everything but Brexit for the very Brexit-shaped multiple crises Britain is facing over and above the fallout from Covid and years of Tory mismanagement and austerity?
Is the press lamer than ever – limp – ineffectual and
toadying to the party in power at every turn? Is the journalistic race to the
bottom – at least in domestic terms nearly over?
I could go on and on but is this not enough? The
world’s oldest democracy has an unelected PM and a politically cowed ‘public’
broadcaster. Its banana-republic stuff.
Please someone – wake me up…
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