Meanwhile the Racist Government Remains Racist

Look, I'll be glad when this madness ends, but this is going to require a healthy transition. Something born of this nightmare has been born inside my subconscious. Even though I've not had it as bad as many (too many) others the pandemic - or rather our society's failed reaction to it - has had an effect. It isn't about the virus as much as it's about how our state and our systems have abandoned us. Even though I am not at the front of the queue, so to speak, and shouldn't be, it'd be wrong to say I could have used some help. But not even the DWP's services are up to snuff. That's not surprising really. There's so much the government could have done for so many of us. Even just little things that would have made all the difference, but they couldn't even pay the full wages of people already getting the lowest wage (and lower). What does that say about the millionaires that have have taken control of our lives and our resources. Remember, they are meant to be servants. Not custodians or keepers; it's not their money after all.

Money they have spent to produce a report intended solely to reassure their new friends (chumps?) in the Red Wall. Don't worry, says our paid advisers, we aren't racist, and therefore neither are you. Not like that nasty Jeremy Corbyn - and by extension everyone else that's on the left! The authors of this questionable bullshit are already prejudiced against the notion of institutional racism. But you can't disagree with them because their BAME, but you can't use BAME because it's bad or something. By the way, don't play identity politics!

The gaslighting never, fucking, ends. This is so obviously a whitewash (pun...intended?). A complete dismissal of the lived experience of people of colour, particularly working class people of colour. Since the Tories reject any kind of class based analysis - while using it to wage class war - they can easily dismiss this. All suitably reinforced by a willing press, all too eager to seize on this bullshit. Of course had the outcome been different (which never would have happened) the papers would have cried foul and said it was all the work of commies, or something. It's just endless exhausting gaslighting.