1. The thing is, everyone falls into the same pattern time and time again:
a) Outrage on Twitter
2) Sign petitions
3) Email our MPs
4) Rinse and repeat ad nauseam.
2. (You know I'm pee'd off if my come in paragraphs with sub-paragraphs, btw)
3. Then tomorrow or the next day it will be overtaken by some new scandal, and nobody will even remember, or if they do, will barely care.
Round and round and round it goes. Where it stops, nobody knows.
4. The ERG headbangers, notionally led by our PM, actually shut down Parliament illegally. Do you remember that? To run down the Brexit clock and make sure there was no Vote of No Confidence until they were ready for it, they wrecked the constitution.
5. Don't get me started on the No Deal Brexit they were clamouring for, for years. Or the pure evil of the govt's response to Covid. And Dominic Cummings. Remember him? Because he was running the govt., not Johnson.
6. So yeah, we can all have a good moan on social media about how corrupt the govt. is, but are any of you actually going to DO anything about it? Are you still clinging on to the delusion that Sir Keith will ride up on his white horse and save you all?
7. Listen very carefully. I will say this only once:
You cannot rely on a system that is corrupt to its core to reform itself, no matter what "side" MPs claim to be on.
8. We are facing the worst existential crises in living memory. Capitalism has run out of corporations to asset-strip, and less-developed countries to "structurally adjust" to leech dry, so now they are moving on to devour developed countries.
9. The people running the country are dismantling every asset our parents and grandparents built, and stripping every last penny out of country while they still can.
10. You have two options:
a) kvetch all day on social media
b) do something.
I vote we do something.
Organise with like-minded people. Build a movement in your communities. Get active with NGOs. Get off your butts and create the country you want to live in, from the ground up.

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