So the policing bill got over another hurdle. This is no surprise; the Tories have a huge majority and will always stick together. There might be a few rebels here and there, but they don't amount to much. I suspect the party tolerates a little dissension because it's good to be seen as tolerant. THey are of course anything but, especially under this nasty little creature, Priti Patel. She is the worst politician of my lifetime; way worse, in my view, than Thatcher. God knows how much worse she'd be if she became PM. A grasping populist with no moral centre - formerly a tobacco lobbyist. Happy to shill on behalf of actual cancer in order to make a buck. Says it all.
It's all just part of the ever rightward drift this sinking island is heading in. Brexit was the key to all this I think. Hopefully it will be their undoing, because nothing else is. Not even, once again, starving kids. Twice. The real enemy here is the media. Through manufactured consent, through the constant framing (and by extension frames created by ignoring issues or comments or policies), and the faux outrage of so called 'woke' culture wars society has been conned into believing people like her will rescue society from...something. Travellers and protesters it seems. Now nebulous guidance that could lead to disturbingly severe consequences is welcomed - all at the hand of a migrant woman who wouldn't be where she is if it weren't for exactly that kind of protest. Meanwhile soft targets like gypsies are of course targeted, as they have been for decades, probably centuries, by the establishment. All because they live in a way that threatens the values of the prevailing paradigm: a group of unseemly folk, dangerously vagrant. Where do they go? Are they after my lucky charms? Now they need passports?
This from a party that likes to argue for a smaller state and greater personal freedoms. Liberty! But in truth it wields the political cudgel of law and order to its own ends. Particularly effective in this period of late stage capitalism. It is in this period that fascism rises, through insecurity and insularity as people turn to demagoguery and ultra nationalism. It would be incorrect to label her a fascist, but she is happy to use the tools that pave the way. This is destructive but she isn't smart. If she were she wouldn't need to bully people. I'm not really interested in psychoanalysis or character assassination, but it is clear she represents the worst aspects of Tory politics. Small minded and cruel.
But this is the child of Brexit. A divisive campaign rendered by powerful elites who care only for their own enrichment. A gutting of communities and a government willing to facilitate this leaves us a hollow society. It is within that vacuum that poverty and misery breed fascism. All of which people like Patel and her disgusting slob of a boss (who thinks it crazy to oppose this bill, while he breaks international law), enable willingly. We are greatly diminished as a society and the only route left open to us is to go further down that stygian channel. A sad lonely little island full of fulminating misogynists increasingly raging at an ever distant world whose population, typified by the EU (in their view), are responsible for all our problems. All despite our newly reacquired sovereignty. What a joke,.
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