I know this is a rather obvious observation, but this government is REALLY screwing up, isn’t it? Covid. T&T. Brexit. Marcus Rashford’s food programs. Sentamu. The North - it’s ineptitude and sheer political maladroitness on a scale we’ve never see before in this country
Magnified by unbearable arrogance, profound dishonesty, an absence of empathy, concern, understanding combined with breathtaking corruption and cronyism and a Trumplike sense of entitlement and invulnerability. And no sense whatsoever that its members know how bad they are
I mean, you don’t expect Tory governments to care what happens to the North, but there’s not even the hint of any concern for the national interest, for business, and all that stuff that their predecessors always claimed to care about.
They are so awful, so painfully and desperately out of their depth, and the consequences of their wrecking ball politics are so serious, that I can’t see them getting away with it indefinitely, There must be some kind of reckoning, surely?

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20 Oct
Considering their obsession w/ 'cancel culture', it's striking how the Brexit cultists always want to cancel anyone who stands in their way. Judges, civil servants, MPs , parliament, Newsnight, C4 News, 'lefty teachers', archbishops -now the CofE.

All a bit snowflakey, imho
A cynic would think they aren't really that bothered about democracy at all - except insofar as democracy is enshrined in a narrow and divisive referendum victory that - in a serious democracy - would require some kind of democratic revisiting.
Taking into account the fierce divisions and multiple fissures it opened up in British society, and the discrepancy between the abstract principle of leaving and the actual technical details of how to do it without harming the economy and society.
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9 Oct
Is it just a coincidence that so many of those who told millions of voters that they would be better off outside the EU and ignored all warnings about the negative consequences of doing so, also tend to oppose wearing ‘muzzles’ and argue that covid is a lot of fuss about nothing?
How many of them never gave a flying fuck about what would happen to the U.K. economy, chanted ‘no deal!’ and ‘let’s go WTO!’ Yet now they suddenly care about the impact of lockdowns on jobs and businesses.
How many of them disparaged expertise when it ran contrary to their Brexit fantasies, and even called such experts ‘traitors’. Yet now they hail ‘the science’ (that agrees with them) to justify their sociopathic libertarianism?
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9 Oct
Absolutely extraordinary to see how the ‘Northern Powerhouse/Level Up’ Tories have forced northern mayors into a de facto alliance against the government because of the government’s high-handed, arrogant, and grossly incompetent management of the pandemic in the North.
So in addition to widening divisions bet/ England and other U.K. member-states through Brexit (exacerbated by mismanagement of the pandemic), this government-of-the-damned is widening the North-South divide, further eroding the solidarity needed to respond to Covid effectively.
All they had to do was listen to what Burnham and the other mayors were saying, communicate with them, have a dialogue between central and local government re. lockdowns, furloughs, test and trace. Basic emergency management. Yet the useless Johnson cabal couldn’t even do that.
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7 Oct
Yesterday Johnson gave the kind of awful keynote speech to the Tory conference you might expect from the worst PM in U.K. history. Yet the Labour left on Twitter chose to attack...Keir Starmer, even though (because?) he has gained political ground in a remarkably short time.
Labour has now overtaken the Tories in the polls. Starmer is way higher than Johnson as a potential PM. Even Johnson’s supporters are moving away from him. All this has been achieved against the background of a national pandemic. Yet the Labour left attacks Starmer
And also contemptuously insults those who have (cautiously) supported him (Red Tories, Starmerhoids, and of course ‘centrists’ etc) with the same viciousness that the Labour right once directed at Corbyn.
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5 Oct
Priti Patel’s speech on the UK’s ‘broken’ asylum system is one of the ugliest & most sinister any British politician has made in many years. It really does spell out the direction of travel, in appealing to the Faragist/fascist underbelly inside and outside the Tory Party.
On the one hand it’s standard Tory claptrap: Our ‘proud’ tradition and our generosity t/wards refugees etc,but compassion must mean fairness and blah blah blah. But not a sliver of compassion to be found in this vicious little speech - not to mention the policies being mooted...
Wave machines. Detention camps in Moldova, Ascension Island etc - fitting punishments for the ‘invaders’ who tabloids, successive governments, Mosley-Farage, and soc. media racists have taught the UK public to fear and hate for years.
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26 Sep
This is a genuinely morally depraved allegation. There are NO nations that have taken ‘comfort’ from the high death tolls of other nations. There ARE govs that have played down their own high death tolls to distract from the incompetence that caused them. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Seriously, what goes on at Elton that it churns out men so devoid of morality, decency, empathy and integrity that they can behave like this? And what is wrong with society that it raises such utterly unworthy monstrosities to high office?
Bear in mind that Johnson just attributed the successful measures taken by Germany and Italy to contain a second wave to the fact they don’t ‘love freedom’ as we do. Now he suggests that they ‘gloat’ about the sufferings of others. It’s Trumpian gaslighting w/ a posh accent.
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