Whether you are looking at your own locale, in my case Britain, or THE world -‘what is the world coming to?’ is surely the question that should be on everyone’s lips.
Instead, here in the UK the media circus is trying
to whip up – well – a circus around the RIDICULOUS freak show that is the
coronation of Charles Windsor. Charlie is an old fart, who, in case you missed
it, takes bags of supermarket cash from Saudi princes, seems incapable of
dressing himself and has a meltdown if a pen doesn’t work. And this chump wants
“a chorus of millions” pledging allegiance to him… It’s such a WTF moment I don’t
know where to start.
Put aside the purported £150 million cost (+++) at a
time of national fiscal crisis. Put aside the unresolved sludge of their
hideous treatment of the first black woman in their midst. Put aside the false
equivalence of both The Palace and the UK media constantly bracketing
trafficked- teenager botherer Prince Andrew with the couple who fled bullying
and racism. Never mind that any time one of the liggers or hangers-on is asked
to actually come up with evidence every time they fall back on the tired worn
out old argument that the monarchy is ‘good for tourism’ – they can’t. The fact
is that many non-medieval countries have way more tourism than the UK.
You’d think all was right with the world if we’ve got the time and resources for this nonsense. You would not think the chair of the BBC appointed by his mate Boris Johnson after a financial favour was done has just had to resign. You wouldn’t think the UK was a laughing stock of the world due to – well – it’s a long list but -
Brexit.
Sewage in the waterways voted for by the current
party in power.
Failure to deal adequately with Afghanistan
Housing crisis
Failure to deal humanely or promptly with Sudan
Growing child poverty
Constant hideousness from the Home Office – from
diverting overseas aid during covid to the ongoing Rwanda/migrant fiasco
Liz Truss crashing the economy during the shortest
premiership in history
Rishi Sunak referring to the UK as the Unicorn
Kingdom at a meeting of business leaders (yes – I too thought that was a joke
at first)
In my last post I gave one example of how infrastructure just does not work in the UK anymore. And that is not one of the big baddies. For that you need to look at railways or education or power companies. I could now turn to The World – the actual wider world – but – as pointed out in many previous blogs – does anyone not know? Check out my Neil De Grass Tyson post The Earth Is Pissed Off
So – apart from the general ludicrousness of it –
which cannot be over-stated – how can we possibly justify the nonsense the
country is being subjected to this weekend Sat 6th May – a day maybe
not of shame but certainly of catastrophic embarrassment for anyone who has not
lost the intellectual will to live…
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