The Continuing of the Beginning of the End 2: School May Well Be Out Forever!

 Robert Jenrick is lecturing us on what constitutes good covid behaviour. 

The man happy to grease Dirty Desmond's pole and help him break housing law to avoid paying tax. A corrupt piece of Tory filth. This is the landscape we're living on. Breathtaking. Corruption abounds. Meanwhile the Tories are now planning to blithely break international law over Brexit because they can't get their act together over Northern Ireland. Playing games with the peace agreement, which will not endear them to the Americans either. We are rapidly at risk of completely isolating ourselves.

I think the anger is starting to get palpable. Certainly I am angry. There is nowhere else for people to turn. This crisis shows no signs of abating, though, somewhat blessedly I guess, today's figures are lower. About 500 down from the last two days, which is good but still concerning. I have zero faith in Hancock, he has repeatedly shown himself to be an arrogant fool. One amongst many of course.

According to the Guardian, these past six months have cost the public purse £210 billion. You can be sure that will not be paid by the likes of Dirty Desmond, or any of the other fatcat Tory donors profiting from this. It is going to mean increased austerity for everyone else, though one wonders what is left in the cupboard to sell. The NHS, of course. Probably the welfare state. Things the Tories have sought to privatise and flog off for years.

Now the Tories are seeking to blame 'young people', you know the sort. The ones the Mail likes to talk about as hoodie wearing skateboard wielding dope fiends, intent on block rocking beating your grandma to death and selling her medals on fleabay. Is this really fair? Of course not. The government should be setting the example, sending clear guidance based on good science. Instead it's dithered and in a daze. They want schools open and then blame the children when they attend and get infected, meanwhile offering no suport - including and especially financially - to them.

I think it is obvious at this point - it certainly should be - that capitalism has no answer to this crisis. We must look elsewhere. In other words, we must unshackle the means of production, the means by which we live, from private ownership. They must be placed in common control with the immediate end of the profit motive. It is incompatible with life right now. Can we really afford to keep bailing out those who are profiting right now? They are not risk takers; you don't start a business without some measure of financial security - and if you don't, what does that say about our system? We valourise this nonsense, talking about entrepreneurs as heroes, the economic equivalent of Magellan. Blessing us with jobs and the lie of trickle down economics. 

No one should have the kind of money Jeff Bezos has, certainly not when the world is coughing itself into an uncertain future.