Last Days of Summer 5: Time Is Running Out

Time is running out for Boris Johnson.

Not that this really helps the rest of us who will have to live with the fallout of a year of disastrous Tory misrule, pandemic or not.

Tuesday and the schools re open. It is inevitable, by virtue of simple numbers, that some will have to close prematurely due to a Covid scare. However, if this venture fails it will mean the economy will suffer even more. The Tories will not be able to bully people, as they currently are, if they have to look after their kids. Not the party of 'family values' (what a larf). Everything hinges on this.

Which is why they have done fuck all about if and take no responsibility for every fuck up thus far. Gavin Williamson remains in post simply because he very obviously knows where the bodies are buried, hence the picture of him with the whip on his desk. Career before country, as ever.

Then, the main course: Brexit.

Angela Merkel is, if I'm not mistaken, the President of the EU currently. She's washing her hands of this farce, and who can blame her. Brexit appears to be off the discussion table which means a no deal is all but inevitable. Johnson and the ERG seem to think the EU will "back down" and give us whatever it is we want. But we don't know what we want. We've spent four years talking about getting great deals and so far have achieved nothing.

And yet people support their clowning around, all performed against a backdrop of racist misdirection. They are happy to use the lives of the most desperate people on the planet to maintain power. Never forget how shameless and grasping the Tories are. All they care about is power and that is what must be taken from them, like a child playing with a plug socket.

Although in the case of the Tories I'd encourage them to lick the fuck out of their fingers and dive right in.

Our government couldn't be any more ridiculous. We have an international trade secretary who, quite frankly, is one of the most stupid people I have ever seen. No one can surely be as ignorant as Liz Truss and yet, time after time, in the media, she manages to make a complete fool of herself. Is this really the standard the Tories want to set for themselves - for us? Do they even care? I doubt it. Anyone who did would never abase themselves so desperately. She keeps saying we're going to get a great deal while contorting herself to avoid accepting responsibility for terrible decisions (such as potentially hiring Tony Abbott to sell Britain to other capitalists the world over). Four years has gotten us no deals thus far, but that will of course all change in the next few months, somehow.

We have a racist home secretary who sees nothing wrong with killing people. A nasty thicko who willingly heads the most racist department in government, desperate to make it even worse. What does she get out of all this? Is it acceptance, as a person of colour herself? That can't insulate you when you're the home secretary.

I could go on.