I must admit that somewhere, somewhen, I have let my grasp of what is going on in the world slip somewhat. Gone are the days where the musings of Jura were treated as venerated offerings of a guru plugged into the zeitgeist, now they are seen as the demented ramblings of an out of touch Trotskyist throwback.
Take the current Tory party conference, where Liz Trust isn’t derided as the biggest disaster in political history, whose brief tenure had the economic effect akin to that of letting loose a wounded Rhino in a Buddhist creche but as a visionary, where Reece Mogg is a thing and not an escaped Dickensian villain plotting the rendering of children’s bones for glue and Nigel Farage (the drinking man’s incontinent uncle) isn’t punched on sight.
A party who having 13 years of power cannot make a list that contains one of their achievements that were good for the country, who partied through the lock downs, lined their own and the pockets of friends with tax payers money while their media fan-boys cheered the dissolution of democracy and conned the undereducated idiot masses that it was all the fault of war damaged people risking their lives crossing continents and seas hoping for a better life in a country that no longer exists, or the nurses and public servants eking out stagnant wages to feed their families as the gap between rich and poor reached the stage where the rich could happily announce they could no longer glimpse them staggering in their wake.
The party that echoes to the singing of “Land of hope and glory” but can’t emulate the Victorians in building even one rail link to the north that gets further than Birmingham, and that at a cost of £71 billion, that’s £710 million/mile.
An actual government policy Net-zero was rolled back as the domain of “net zero zealots”, who are more worried about newts than house building, that would be the former tory governments of Boris and May then, and the twat that stymied a bill to reduce the amount of people eating junk food, the anti-obesity strategy as he believes in peoples right to choose is incrementally going to ban smoking, secure in the knowledge that by then the tobacco industry will have hooked kids onto vaping, but it sounds right and profits are protected.
Fuck me. If anyone I know votes for these bastards I will cut them off at the knees, I am no longer available as a peaceful guru.
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