Eye of the Storm 2: He Card Read Good!

In the midst of a pandemic there appears to be a ripping off of a plaster covering a great wound. Black Lives Matter once again exposes the facade of race relations, exposing the truth of power structures and privilege. Social media appears to be taking some responsibility, at last, and banning scumbags and hatemongers. I have no problem with that, except that by leaving it so late they expose themselves to charges of bias or inconsistency. We wouldn't have half the problem with online agitators and bigots if these companies had cracked down in the first instance - and made it stick.

Perhaps a nightmare has shocked us into waking. The question is can we take this impetus and move forward, or will it fade under pressure of profit making. 

Looking at the data for the virus situation in the UK it is hard not to feel somewhat optimistic. I can only hope that isn't misplaced and that, come the winter, we do not find ourselves back where we started. There is certainly every possibility of that. It could either be a very poignant or very terrifying Christmas. Yet, despite the shops being open for a couple of weeks and the presence of muddled slack lockdown practice, all of which inspired by our insipid venal leaders, cases are dwindling. If this trend continues there's good reason to believe by the Autumn things could be moving much more positively. Of course this doesn't take into account the effects of last weeks' beach insanity nor the upcoming Saturday Soaking when the nation's boozers throw open their doors to the thirsty. While I don't begrudge people a tipple, I really question whether this is the right move right now. Plus beer makes people go dumberer!

Come the end of July we should have a decent picture.

And then Boris gave a speech comprising a torrent of hyperbole and bullshit designed to make his master happy and appease the wobbling capitalists concerned about wolves at the door. That's right fuckers we come for YOU!

He's actually saying we should clap for the people who pay for the NHS:

“My friends, I am not a communist … Yes, of course we clap for our NHS, but under this government we also applaud those who make our NHS possible, our innovators, our wealth creators, our capitalists and financiers.”

As if anyone actually thinks he's a communist! (Other than Peter Hitchens obviously. A man so deranged he thinks everyone in the universe is to the left of him.)

When he says but, what he means is "clap for our (his) NHS, but the capitalists are the real heroes". Contemptible. You can be sure when this moves on he'll be selling the NHS to pay for the bankers he's championing in speeches like this. This is call to arms and we better start tooling up! 

By the way, it's not the "innovators, wealth creators, capitalists or financiers" (he could have just said ERG) that make our NHS possible. Just for the avoidance of doubt it's the following people:

Nurses

Doctors

People working on desks doing the paperwork

Cleaners

Porters

People in retail selling (mostly) food

Migrants

The Working Class

It is NOT:

Capitalists

Financiers

Innovators (a vapid loaded term that means the sum total of nothing)

They work in it saving people like Boris Johnson from his own fatal stupidity. It's the migrants who are tapped for cheap labour (cleaners, porters, etc) as well as filling essential care roles. Finally it's the FUCKING REST OF US because it's our taxes that pay for it. Not YOU. Not your grubby mates, not Trump, not Mogg, not Jackanape Francois nor Mr Big Arron Banks (can't even fucking spell his own name properly, what a cunt). It's US, and it's OURS. 

So fuck off!

It's a class war alright!