Week of Thunder 4: This Year's Stolen Future

With one bold move, lightning strikes.

The lives of kids are now smashed. One number becomes another and dreams are denied effort. The fruit of hard work is not rewarded, despite the claims to meritocracy, but instead cruelly stolen.

This is what Tories do.

For years they, ably assisted by the venomous right wing media, have been lying to people. Exams are getting easier. Kids have it easy: this is a perennial claim. The truth is that they have taken people's chances and rights away from them. Kids have it easy say the baby boomers who benefited from free education and life chances. In return they kick the ladder from beneath them. 

Now, of course in 2020 the year of fire, this has sprouted a grim harvest. Kids up and down the land now find, with no apology or, at the time of writing, hope of change, their work means nothing. This is the epitome of Tory cruelty. I sincerely hope this will not be forgotten. In fact I won't be surprised if there's a rise in (justifiable) antisocial behaviour because of this. A year of stolen dreams, oppressive incompetence, and now the absolute theft of hard work. A trait befitting capitalism (though this isn't a class reductionist analysis).

This will throw into stark relief the divisions in society. BAME kids, those already disadvantaged, will be even more kept back. Meanwhile the little darlings' of the toxic elite will know no such hardship. They, by virtue of their schooling, are already on the social fast track. Tomorrow's elites, making similar decisions.

The cliff edge looms ever closer, crumbling even more in the shock and awe of very real collapse. This world is now unrecognisable to the one that existed even a year ago. We are now nurturing a stolen generation, perhaps more. Who knows what next year's situation will be? Meanwhile, according to OfQual, the grades for public school kids (from a smaller cohort) didn't suffer in the same way.

The Tories have cemented themselves as the cruellest party in British history; this government in particular. What a spectacular and cruel thing to have done, and they cover it with naked class aggression. Not for you plebs, or the children of plebs, is a good life. Even working hard is now divorced from the reward that kept you motivated. The only thing capitalism has to offer, and it was always

a lie.