Week of the Dig For Britain You Plebs Part 4: Dig For Britain You Plebs!

So the government's Dig For Victory, I mean Farming Jobs, went live. As you might expect 'Pick For Britain' is a shitshow. For a start it just hosts recruitment agency websites - not unlike the government's own regular employment website. Expect no actual vacancies or information about them. For that you'll have to contact the agencies themselves who also see fit not ot actually advertise jobs. Also, hilariously, things like this:

Notice where this company is almost entirely based? The architects of Brexit can't ignore this reality while telling the plebs to dig for (their) victory. I wonder how many farms signing up to all this are owned by Tories or the beneficiaries thereof?

So again, this isn't about helping people find work in tough times, and it certainly isn't about bigging up Britain. That's the desperate voice of spent nationalism. Hollow and cocksure. This is about the bosses and the businesses. How, for example, does the kind of person that would end up doing this (and there's no shame doing so) relocate for a couple of months. If they are renting they have to give up their tenancy, relocate to the farm (possibly, to be fair), pay for the privilege (losing about an hour's pay daily), and then come back to...? Where are they going to find new accommodation in Coronoa Britain?

This is just a bosses charter, draped in patriotic zeal. You won't see Tory scions doing this and that tells me everything.

Meanwhile as Britain heads to the seaside for cockles and covid, deckchairs and disease, social distancing is exposed for the lie that it is. Now, hold your horses! What I mean is that the government has so weakened this vital tactic as to become meaningless. Essentially the play is this: get everyone back to work by saying social distancing is important all the while knowing that nobody will actually follow it. The inertia of social movement and the desire to get out will erode any compulsion to caustion. This is coupled with the push to reduce the actual distance involved. Odious Duncan Smith has come out (and he won't be alone in this) and said the two metre rule (ha!) should be relaxed.

Class allies in the business sector say the same. One guy, the owner of a culturally-appropriating east Asian 'themed' restaurant chain, said it should also be 1m. Aside from increasing the risk of transmission in an enclosed environment, reducing it would allow more people to patronise his business. That's his point of course. The problem is that such an increase will cause a critical mass of social interaction that would render practical application of distance impossible and unworkable. It just won't happen, people will forget, not care, get drunk, tell staff (those on minimum wage, desperate to pay for a mask themselves, trying to survive) to piss off. You get the picture.

Social distancing is important, but, knowing that people won't follow it, allows the government to use it to 'guarantee' the safety of their workplaces. It's a lie.

Some good news, finally; it appears the government has changed its mind on charging migrant NHS staff. It's an important and welcome concession, but what they giveth with one hand...

Warning! Class War today contains toxic levels of Mogg!