Let’s face it, this country is in a dire situation and worse than I have ever seen it in my lifetime. How crazy that people with full time employment need food banks and can’t afford to heat their property. But how did we get into this mess?
Are we as a nation paying for the furlough and wasted money from the Covid era? Does corruption play a part? Enormous profit taking from production companies and sales outlets such as supermarkets?
Would we be in a better situation had Labour been in power for the past 10 years instead?
Off the top of my head…………… The nations problems can be laid at the door of all the Politicians, the tabloid press, globalisation and many a daft UK resident over the course of the period since Boro were in Eindhoven.
When Brown took over from Blair his star was riding high, he should have called an election in the Autumn of 2007. The subsequent economic crash was handled quite well to start with, but the global economic crisis led to a world wide crash and recession, rising unemployment and huge increase in national debtplus his dithering and handling on the abolition of the10p tax rate and losses in the local and European elections saw his popularity plummet. He lost support in the party and factions from within saw Labour splits widen and undermine Brown and his government.
At the same time the tories were rebranding and with the help of the press seized the opportunity to spread propaganda, using the global financial crisis as if it was all Labours fault. Thicko’s who read the Sun, Mail and Express bought into the smears, inadvertently assisted by some on the left within Labour. Ultimately the dashing cut of Camerons jib and the tory smoke and mirrors enabled them the opportunity to form a coalition government with the Liberals, the judas’s of Westminster. Clegg & co propping up the tories for the pieces of silver enabled austerity to get a foothold, lies to be spread around as to the state of the country and fool the nation into thinking everything was Labours fault and the only solution was pain and suffering.
The electorate went along with this stupidity and self harm policies because Labour was too busy fighting itself, leaving the tories and Lib Dems to pretend all was under control. The fact it wasn’t, Clegg and co backed the wrong horse and paid a huge political price allowing the tories to use them as patsy’s and win the 2015 election outright as the global recession had been allegedly put out and the economy was in calmer waters thanks to the tories (yeah right) as was the wider worlds and the promise of a referendum on EU membership led to an unexpected outright win.
Then pig headed Cameron (see what i did there) thought he was one step ahead of his own party and went ahead with the most unnecessary political event in history, calling the referendum. He called his bluff with the ERG and the EU only for the British people to give the coward a bloody nose. He failed to highlight the benefits of EU membership, call out the lies on ALL sides and enabled the tory right to gain power and a stranglehold using Brexit as their weapon. Cleverly though, they defined Brexit as one thing, selling sovereignty, control to one group while allowing bigotry to run rabid through parts of the country that fed the narrative of the little Englanders and the red wall seats who had ironically probably suffered the most through austerity. Derren Brown and David Blaine combined could not have pulled off a bigger trick on the British people.
The failure of Labour under Corbyn saw May muddle through her internal battles with tory left and right, as to what Brexit actually was, her befuddlement still managed to win an election as no cohesive policies existed from either party that allowed May to win despite a much lower majority. The nation was divided in all quarters and not just along party lines as remainer MP’s were too scared to do the right thing, which would have been to bring the nation back together by working out a brexit deal then offer the country a second referendum on whether we felt the deal was what we wanted collectively and whether it was what we voted for. Had remainers had the courage of their convictions and put nation and its people before party, I think the subsequent **** show could have been largely avoided.
The tory right won the day, the duplicitous Johnson and his cronies who manipulated their careers based on a foundation of lies, deceit and contempt for the truth gained a hold and the emperor with his new clothes persuaded the nation he would get brexit done. By now the people were so sick of the whole mess they somehow bought ‘his truth’ and a landslide victory. To get it done he even risked splitting the UK into 3 or 4 separate nations, but Joe Bloggs was happy in his white van to clench his fist and say we give it to johnny foreigner. It was a bit like the tribalism of football in the 70’s, winning and losing wasn’t everything, it was about the white noise and bigotry that went with it that seemed to make people feel good.
The pandemic enabled Johnson to repay his rich backers with wealthy contracts while scaring the public literally in some cases to death. He saw off loads of OAP’s sending expensive NHS customers to the grave, saved on pensions and benefits to boot, using the money to further his own aims. He and his pals grew so used to pulling the wool over our eyes he thought he was invincible. Sunak managed to give all our wealth saved through austerity under a furlough scheme that encouraged fraud and massive exploitation by some UK citizens and foreign criminal gangs to such a degree it was not worth attempting to recover it later, thereby virtually bankrupting the country.
The pandemic causing people to work from home saw lots of shops and businesses close, especially the service and sales industries. People got used to online shopping and making their own lunches causing, cafes, bars, shops to go out of business due to footfall dropping alarmingly. Workers quite enjoyed orking at home, saved on commute costs, time etc and enjoyed a better work life balance. Companies saved fortunes on fuel, rates, phonebills and could close some or all of their offices. Customer service was allowed to drop and we were foolish to accept it without a fight. Dr’s decided a 3 day week suited them and access to the NHS was like trying to get access to your mrs knickers after the second kid, it was most unlikely to happen when you wanted it, you’d have to wait until they deemed it appropriate.
Foodbanks and Funeral Parlours were the new growth sectors, along with self employed delivery drivers, selfishness flourished at the expense of neighbourliness. We are where we are because of ourselves allowing politicians to do as they please and we only have ourselves to blame as we gave them the right to run the country to its knees. We are in a bleak black hole and the only light that can be seen is by getting rid of this blue nosed shower of liars, cheats and self entitled vagabonds currently plundering our taxes. Labour have to be given the keys to No10, if not then we are doomed as a country and the lights and our hearts and minds will slowly but surely be allowed to wither and die.
