I am tempted to post only one thing today because this may well be the most important piece of media we will ever see right now. Unfortunately those that need to see it the most will disregard it because the author is Owen Jones. Equally unfortuantely, he is 100% correct. This is depressing and stark; simple in its factual accounting of the last ten months. Exposing a throroughly corrupt government, guided not by the science, but its own self interest.
This, I hope, is their epitaph. It must not be ours. Polling shows that even if a general election were held today the Tories would still win. They would command a vastly diminished majority leaving them a minority government. The only victor in such circumstances would be the Westminster machine. We, the rest of us, would all lose.
To put it another way: there is no opposition. Keir Starmer has utterly failed. He is just a red John Major. Grey Labour. Certainly no grey eminence. A man that has bottled every challenge the pandemic has given him. He wants to represent the labour movement, that's the party's cause, yet he cannot even oppose white supremacist talking points on a racist radio station. He caves in to racism when it's politically expedient to do so, giving in to his ideological enemies. He equivocates on the issue of schools opening at the wrong time, when it is abundantly clear that the answer is NO! They should not open! He has had an open goal staring him in the face for the best part of a year and still manages to perform poorly. Worse, I would argue than Corbyn, yet he's the right kind of politician (literally) and so won't face the same opprobrium. What then is the point of the Labour party?
Share this, but don't forget this. We have been abandoned to die by a government profiting from its failure to mismanage the worst crisis we have faced, nationally, in our lifetimes. Never forgive.
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