Another grey day in the country where children are collateral damage for the Tory agenda and Brexit. Crying Matt on the morning news is nailed to the wall by, of all people, Piers Morgan. Despite Piers being a thundering piece of overbearing shit, he seems the only "journalist" willing to hold these liars to account. Crying Matt crumbled when asked if he regretted voting against feeding starving kids. Yes, we live in the age where we should debate everything, where there are two sides to every story; just as Tim Martin's Covid denial leaflets exhort. This is of course utter bullshit, there aren't two sides to whether kids should be fed (never mind during a pandemic). There's the right thing to do, and then there are evil scumbags.
I believe Brexit could have been postponed. The transition period, at the very least, could have been extended. Our government should have focused on one crisis: the pandemic. It chose to continue with Brexit and I can't help believing that this was partly intentional. Disaster capitalism is served by them hiding what they knew would be unpalatable (once the truth was out, as is slowly becoming apparent) within the folds of a greater crisis. I'm not suggesting this was a conspiracy. It's simply they saw the situation and acted accordingly. Now they can blame Brexit's failings on the prevailing economic conditions. In other words, a good day, lasting ten months and running, to bury bad news.
The covid figures for the last couple of days appear to show the start - hopefully! - of a decline. Hopefully the lockdown is starting to have an effect, although it feels totally presumptuous to say that. I choose to...hope. Even so, thousands more will die. That cannot be avoided; deaths follow on from hospitalisations, preceded by infections. Thus, because of the high rate of infections over which this lunatic regime has presided, we will be looking at another 25,000 dead by Spring. That is a hell of a toll.
With that in mind, this has to be the start of something revolutionary. It's been said before, but we cannot go back to business as usual after this, This is the start of a brave new world, these are terrible birthing pains and so they must not be for nothing. To coin a phrase, another world is possible. It has to be. So much more will be lost than a hundred thousand of our lives; the Tories will come for everything. Brexit is already the beginning of the end of workers rights and hard won terms and conditions. All that faces being swept away in the next couple of years. We're only a water of the way through this Parliament and they are already starving kids. We cannot let them continue. We must fight, there is no alternative. A better world awaits.
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