When the opposition says it wants the government to succeed, it means that it shares the policies and values of the Tory government. It just wants them not to be shit at it, because Johnson and his bloated cronies are thick as shit mince. This is not a virtuous position to hold: the opposition has returned to Blairite Red Tory centrist/centre right pro capitalist nonsense. This will get us nowhere. They have had precious little to say about this rubbish mini-budget. If you can't make capital out of the fact the government's response to capitalism's inability to cope with Corona, then you too are thick as shit mince.
Nothing changes. Unless we change it. We certainly can't rely on Starmer and his authoritarian 'soft' (at least nominally) capitalist party. This was demonstrated when he kicked out Rebecca Long Bailey. Her inability to defend her position, for whatever reason, didn't help either. There is, now, no opposition.
The local shop posted to Facebook that they'd like everyone to wear masks. So I go up there with my sliced up T shirt wrapped around my face. Of course I'm the only customer wearing a mask and don't I feel like a clown. So much for community spirit, or even common sense. It's not much to ask, no matter how daft we may feel dressing up like this!
The Guardian is reporting the Government wants to take back more direct control of the NHS, following the great reforms-that-were-not-reforms of the early years of the Coalition. No doubt so they can sell it lock stock and barrel to their mates in private healthcare (ie the Americans). Once again the NHS is a political football. That's all it will ever be. That's all clapping has achieved unless we fight. The NHS is nothing but a pawn in the games played by these political operators. It doesn't matter how many compassionate anecdotes you reel off, how many old soldiers perambulate (remember that?), nor how many charity records get made. All the NHS is ever going to be under a capitalist neofeudal government is a political football.
To emancipate it is the struggle to emancipate the working class entirely. The two are not separate.
Does anyone else think that Johnson wearing a facemask looks like a drunk Hannibal Lecter?
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