Penny for your thoughts Mr Reporter?
How unlucky do you have to be to get caught, on a baking hot day, in your car at a time when there is legitimately no traffic nor call for much? Gridlock fears no plague. Here I am, sitting in a tin can!
Waving, singing, self destructing...this tweet says it all. Words are but a pale ghost.
This is what the working class has been reduced to. These people are victims of the stupidity they demonstrate. Yes it's easy to sneer. I don't like that. But for god's sake. This is YOUR mess Boris; the blood is on YOUR hands! Patriotism isn't chosen, it's inflicted. These are all of us. I do not believe it's right for the ruling class, with their vast privilege and ill gotten gains (stolen from the working class) to use their power to bully others.First nation on earth to Vera Lynn ourselves to death pic.twitter.com/e5qaTnnYYa— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 9, 2020
However in this case we have another example of the divide within the ruling class; just as it exists with Brexit, it exists here. Those who want to kickstart their profits anew and those who want to, in the case of VE Day and the like, end lockdown because...freedom. A nebulous concept propagated by scumbag press barons to provoke their readers. It's commercialised outrage. It's what Peter Hitchens does when he provides no evidence and appeals to outliers. We all want lockdown to end, but we cannot forget why it's here there's a virus and the government responded badly to it.
Don't use these images to sniff and sneer at people who have less or little, certainly compared to the ruling elite. Apportion blame correctly. Scapegoat the right people. These are images of misguided and potentially dangerous behaviour, but the people involved are not responsible for being in that thought space. They should be told, respectfully and from a position of class awareness (IMO), what they are doing is counter productive.
We none of us are perfect, especially in these unprecedented crisis-addled times.
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