Back To The Beginning 6: Strike A Match, Burn A Government

There's a clip from PMQs of Boris openly putting down Ian Blackford of the SNP. This isn't surprising, but it is concerning. This is because Boris' behaviour was not challenged by the Speaker, or Deputy Speaker, in this case. Symptomatic of where we are: the largesse and arrogance of power allowed to go unchallenged. A metaphor for how the media has failed the working class; failed to hold these sociopaths to account. For this reason, Boris is allowed to behave like this. As he has no doubt throughout his life and career. Indeed he's been rewarded for it now that he's the PM.

The Tories are openly waging class war. They simply do not care any more. I don't believe they are acting in some planned strategic manner. That might be possible, in the world of special advisors and parliamentary jousting. But I don't really believe it, nor do I think it matters. What is important is their behaviour is not challenged. They can get away with their awful policies because of this. The lack of scrutiny doesn't reveal the details, the small print, of their policies. That's where the devil lies. Without that scrutiny they will continue to prove popular. Though I hope their poll ratings are emblematic not of an increase in support directly, but a falling away of support for the opposition. Consequently, until people can be persuaded that supporting the system is not the only option open to them, they will feel obliged to vote for one or the other. "You've got to vote for someone." Says who?

This is where the revolution has to start. People have got to realise that the Tories are not the only option, when faced with a dissolute, insipid, bland Labour alternative. This clip showed me something. Rather, it confirmed what I've been saying all along: the Tories are waging class war. Vast cuts - austerity 2.0 - is most certainly coming. When all the pandemic 'benefits' (and for many that amounts to £0.00) expire, as they will this year, sooner or later, there will be a vast cliff edge that many will face. Unlike the ruling class, the precariat and the vulnerable (which could include you and me) will be driven by the inertia of poverty. They won't be able to stop from going over the edge, and it seems that inertia is only going to be accelerated by this government and it's vast affluent chancellor. They will deploy the feeble rhetoric of simpleton capitalists: the John Galt paradigm. Bootstraps and self made men. Except none of them are; they have privilege, luck and wealth. We have nothing, and we're going to get even less. It starts with the nurses, we need to make sure that fire, being ignnited with this puny pay 'rise' starts a blaze that burns through the working class. An injustice to one is an injustice to all. Now is the time.