It is a sad truth that societies generally turn into a
mirror image of the government that governs them. This was evident in the
bigoted and venal governments of 1930’s Germany, Italy and Spain, the religion
driven ideological governments of Ireland, where unmarried mothers were treated
as wicked sinners and cast into Magdalene laundry’s, where nuns, supposedly
followers of a compassionate religion, acted as the devils emissaries, or the
Reagan/Thatcher governments of the eighties with their mantra of ‘greed is
good’, are just a few examples.
The current British government see themselves as the
inheritors of the Thatcher legacy and consider it their purpose to finish the
job that Thatcher started. This involves privatising the National Health
Service to the advantage of their public school chums, destroying union and
legal representation so that only the wealthy has access to justice, dismantling
the Welfare State and selling off the BBC to their News International paymasters, whilst all the time dressing up their ideologically driven policies as austerity bu**sh**.
On the road to this social Armageddon, they are imbuing
society with a selfish ‘looking after no1‘attitude that has involved making
poverty a crime, attempts to divide and rule by turning the willing middle and
upper classes against the disabled, the vulnerable and the supposedly
undeserving poor, whilst allowing a small wealthy elite to get richer on the
backs of the crimes the Tory’s are currently committing.
These current Tory’s, who see themselves as the ‘Children of
Thatcher’, have an advantage that Thatcher herself could never benefit from. In
the 80’s, Thatcher came up against a knowledgeable and politically engaged
youth, who were prepared to challenge her ideologue, whereas today we have an
indulged, shallow and vacuous youth who believe that success, fame and
celebrity will fall at their feet without them having to put any effort in, and
would have no difficulty naming the Xfactor winner but would struggle with the
name of the current Prime Minister, let alone the Leader of the Opposition.
This is mainly due to parents wanting to be their offspring’s ‘best friends’
rather than their parents. The parents live in constant fear and insecurity that their
children may not ‘love’ them, so try to be 'best mates' with them rather than
mothers and fathers. Add into this toxic brew of apathy, the watering down of
employment rights and legal representation, the neutering of union power, the unavailability
of ‘proper’ jobs, the removal of any welfare safety net, and the never ending
and self serving perpetuation of lies and right wing propaganda printed and
spoken by the right wing media, and it is not difficult to foresee a society
that will quickly collapse in on its self as neighbourhood turns against
neighbourhood and class battles class, while the political and wealthy elite
watch on from afar in their ivory clad metropolitan bubbles, country estates
and castles.
The saddest aspect of this process is to witness how quickly
people take up the cudgels and how gladly they enjoy beating the weak with them.
It is not difficult to visualise these sanctimonious dupes, happy to play the role of fascist foot soldiers, wrapped up in their
cloaks of hate and vitriol, lining the streets of some German town in the
1930’s and gleefully spitting and kicking at the lines of Jews, as they are
marched towards the railway sidings and the cattle trucks that await, before swooping
down, like vultures at a kill, on their abandoned businesses, homes and
belongings.
Britain, once seen across the world as a nation of fairness
and inclusivity, is now seen as a small island on the edge of Europe, infested
with bitter, twisted, narrow minded, foreigner hating, and greedy natives who
joyfully consign poor children into poverty, display levels of frightening
ignorance, bigotry and jealously when someone, i.e. teachers, fire-fighters,
decide to exercise their human rights by withdrawing their labour, conveniently
accuse people who have to fall back on food banks as just lazy chancer’s and hypocritically
call for welfare cuts while cashing their own child benefit cheque.
This is the society the Tory’s have built. A nasty self
centred society, where its inhabitants are forever worried about the neighbours
having a better car, the type of mobile they have, whether somebody who is
claiming Jobseekers allowance or disability living allowance is frittering away
their benefits on such fripperies as potatoes or shoes, when everybody knows
that if you are claiming welfare you should have to go barefoot and deny
yourself carbohydrates, or whether Guava or little Rembrandt are part of the popular
kids, the kids who insist on talking in Chavspeak or a faux Jamaican patois,
even though they were born and brought up in Surrey and who spend their lunch
breaks picking on the kid who doesn’t have the latest Grand Theft Auto or the
pretty girl who happens to be very bright as well as being serious about her
studies. A crime considered unconscionable and that cannot be tolerated by
competitive parents or their designer label driven offspring. I’m pretty certain that if most parents were
giving the choice of their children being plain but intelligent or popular but
thick, they would choose the latter.
Put simply, we are
becoming a nation of frightened, hypocritical, selfish, self centred and
small-minded adults who are enabling the hate driven policies of an elite and
uncaring government and who know the price of everything but the value of
nothing. I suppose we had better hope Putin curtails his expansionist policies
in the Baltic, because I do not see this current generation having the balls or
the guts to storm the beaches of the Crimea, for the purposes of freedom and
democracy, in the way our forebears stormed the beaches of Normandy.
And imagine, they did it without WiFi, Twitter or bloody
Snapchat. I mean, I’m not being funny but..... No Way! Way! Whatever! Shut up!
No you shut up! I hate you! You is dope. You is howling dred fudge, I is swag vexed, fo sho man,rago.
Tory Rent Boy Shock.
I’m not sure what the furore is about. My only surprise is
that the headlines said “Tory caught with
rent boy”, when it should have said. “Another! Tory caught with rent boy”.
The Archers, an
Explanation for international visitors.
The Archers is a tale of everyday country folk, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, where all the upper and middle class characters work really hard and
are always tired and the rural working class are portrayed as lazy chancer’s
who are either incredibly thick, on the make, criminals, inverted snobs or all four.
Most poorly researched and plotted episodes are spent
explaining, in a patronising manner, to the stupid townies listeners,
how being a farmer involves loads of bureaucracy, hours of tiring work, how if
it wasn't for the hardworking and constantly tired farmers the country would
collapse, how all townies owe farmers a living, how townies haven’t a clue about how tiring it is being a farmer
and how much hard work is involved.
Basically it is a party political broadcast on behalf of NFU (The
National Farmers Union). Certain things are banned, such as anybody from
out of town getting a job in Ambridge, (only established characters are successful when
applying for a job), any discussion about the farming subsidies paid to farmers out of the taxes of the despised townies and any hint of reality.
Oh, did I mention how hard working and tiring farming is.
Yeah, it is, it really is. It’s really tiring.
War.
The hail of bullets,
They did the job,
Upon the mud,
Lay dying,
Bob,
Around him, all his comrades lay,
They too, would also die this day,
The men in braid,
Were far away,
They would see another day,
Upon the ground,
Bob now lay dead,
A bullet had blown away,
‘Half his ‘head.
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