Twelve Months On: The Summer Of Resistance Awaits
Lots of you seem to like my daft rants about the leader of Her Majesty’s official opposition - others seem to dislike my exceptionally subtle criticisms of the desiccated tsunami of torpidity - but at least you take the time to read my thoughts, regardless of how you feel about sedentary Starmer, and I’m genuinely grateful that you do.
Today is a different day. Starmer will get his mentions, but the focus of this one is on the other Tories.
Let me take you back one year ago - exactly one year ago to this day. That would be the 23rd of March 2020. I don’t want to get bogged down with too much data, simply because it has all been done so many times before
We awoke to our first national lockdown, not really knowing what to expect. We didn’t know it would be the first of three, and we didn’t realise we would be mourning a loss of lives that would be the equivalent of FORTY TWO ‘9/11’ terrorist atrocities happening in the space of just one year.
It’s hard not to remember the days, weeks, and events leading up to the 23rd March 2020.
Once the severity of Covid-19 was apparent, a majority of the civilised world went into a lockdown of some form. What did Boris Johnson do?
The fucking idiot went on holiday to write a book.
Do you remember the tragic scenes from the Italian hospitals? Doctors having to choose who would live and who would die?
Our Prime Minister was aimlessly wandering around hospitals, boasting about shaking hands with Coronavirus patients.
It’s impossible not to remember the words of the head of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “Test, test, test”. That was on March 16th 2020.
Our government ended community testing before it ever really got started and they went on to hand billions of your Pounds to private companies such as Serco and Deloitte to provide us with a test and trace system that became a global laughing stock, such was its overwhelming inadequacy.
It wasn’t quite so funny for the poor parents that had to drive a four hundred mile round trip just to get a test for their unwell child. What an absolute shambles that really was.
Whatever did happen to Dido Harding, anyway?
Just one year and two weeks ago she was probably enjoying the VIP hospitality at the Cheltenham Festival, along with 251,683 other attendees. Honest to god, what the fuck were they thinking?
Britain should’ve been entering a lockdown on the 10th March 2020, not entertaining a quarter-of-a-million people from around the world in a few beer tents in a field somewhere in deepest darkest Gloucestershire.
But we must be clear, the fact Tory-favourite Baroness Dido Harding sits on the board of the Jockey Club had absolutely nothing to do with the Festival going ahead. Obviously. Definitely not.
Governments around the world chose to protect their people’s health and wellbeing before the profits of their friends. This is what you elect governments to do. You do not elect these vastly over-privileged and demonstrably ill-equipped politicians to use you and your family as collateral damage.
The biggest problem we had at the time was a government more concerned with Big Ben chiming and getting Brexit done. How’s that unlimited sovereignty going? Or is it hiding in the same cupboard as Harding and the Eat Out To Help Out scheme? At least we’ve *got rid of those unelected bureaucrats though.
*does not include 800 members of the House of Relics and countless numbers of posh racists calling themselves “Royal”.
I took a moment at Midday to remember the loved ones that heartbreakingly lost their lives to this awful disease, I’m sure many of you did the same thing. Most of us are that person who has either seen the tragic consequences close up, or they know someone else that has.
But when you stopped for that moment, was that all you thought of? Or did you think about the utter tragedy that unfolded over the last twelve months.
Did you think about a Prime Minister who did nothing, said very little, and allowed the disease to spread through the population before thinking it might be time to act?
Johnson spent so much of 2019 accusing Jeremy Corbyn of “dither and delay”, but when Johnson’s moment in 2020 arrived, and he had the chance to prove his decisive leadership, he only went on to prove he was everything he accused Jeremy Corbyn of being. When we told you a Corbyn-led government would save lives, we weren't wrong.
Did you think about the countless frontline workers, from bus drivers to nurses, the very people that kept our country moving while we got to spend more time with our nearest and dearest and catch up with a few boxsets on Netflix? So many of them have lost *their* lives so you could get to work, so you had food on your table, and you had the very best healthcare when you needed it the most.
Did you think about the blatant cronyism and the corruption, carried out with impunity? Billions and billions of your Pounds have been siphoned off to the benefit of Conservative Party friends and donors. Even the most tenuous of links to the Health Secretary’s first pet stick insect (he looks the sort) would be enough to secure you a lucrative contract for the supply of vital PPE - and if you just so happened to have a registered office in the British Virgin Islands, no staff, and previous experience of exporting sand to the Sahara desert, all the better.
This government is so fucking corrupt. They are our Cosa Nostra. The distribution of contracts to the private sector under the cloak of Coronavirus has been carried out by an organised crime syndicate masquerading as a government of the people.
Despite the light on the horizon being considerably brighter than yesterday, the government plans to extend emergency Coronavirus legislation until September. That gives them another six months to bleed the public purse dry.
We have just been through the most extraordinary year, but today is just one date. You could find a calendar from last year and go through each day, and every single one of them was an unmitigated disaster. Maybe not for you personally, but it was for someone else.
The predominantly right-wing British media have served as fantastic cheerleaders for this useless government. The Labour Party chose to oppose the pesky lefties, rather than the actual social murderers in government, and I’m not entirely sure if the Liberal Democrats even still exist.
The only real opposition to Boris Johnson Coronavirus catastrophe has come from independent media, and from people like you, trying to get through this life thing as best as possible. You have been the opposition.
So with all of this in mind, please don’t expect me to start applauding the government for managing to order vaccine doses during a global pandemic. This would be like a mechanic turning up for work without any tools and expecting a pat on the back when they manage to order a spanner set from Halfords.
These utter bastards have caused the unnecessary deaths of ten of thousands of British people because they failed to act in the national interest when they needed to do so the most, and no amount of finger-prodding, desk-thumping, choruses of ‘Land of Hope and Glory”, spirit of the Blitz, Dame Vera Lynn and certainly no amount of dressing up failure in a freshly-pressed Union flag in the name of patriotism will ever change that simple fact.
It is easy to say “it didn’t have to be this way”, but it really didn’t. While we were all locked away we still had wide open borders and airports with a bottle of anti-bacterial hand wash to greet you on arrival. We sent children back to school when teachers, unions, parents, and scientists were saying it wasn’t safe to do so. We had a Prime Minister apparently trying to “save” Christmas, and look at what followed. He gave the green light for thousands and thousands of further deaths, and caused the NHS to face its biggest crisis in its history.
Britain is bleak right now. While the middle classes shed tears over their delayed holiday in the South of France the rest of us are wondering what their tears will look like when they realise they have wilfully wandered into a fascist police state, where the safety of a fucking statue is worth more than the safety of their daughter.
The blinkers won’t dry the tears. Please don’t say we never warned you.
This government have got away with state-sanctioned murder. They were fully aware of the catastrophic implications if they failed to act on the best advice, and by god did they fail. This means they can get away with anything, or at least they think they can. Margaret Thatcher thought she would get away with the hated poll tax.
Today is just one day of a year that can only be described as bizarre, life-changing, angering, frustrating, and ultimately, heartbreaking.
Today, in my humble opinion, is just one day nearer a summer of unprecedented resistance.
Take care everyone,
Rachael x
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Nice one Rachael. (@geof-Hughes0
ReplyDeleteFirst thing I read this morning - passionate and articulate as usual. Thoroughly agree.
ReplyDeleteExcellent and how true - but if I had to pick a hole - there is so much more. This week my grandson had to return to school in Wales for one day , @Meet and greet The Teachers@ as if they did not know each other. But in fact as well as no testing etc they also met another 5-600 children not far from usual conditions. Yes, they had to take packed lunches as the Canteen had not yet worked up to a full school until after Easter in Wales. So they all sat in the hall together eating their sandwiches. Could not make it up -how pathetic they really are if someone really started to analyse them. Many more deep issues past what Rachael write. I for one will look out to follow your writings. Yes as you indicate -we have too much complacency. I put forward starting TheClubUK.co.uk to try and get normal people together to air their views, make suggestions that hopefully would lead to us as a people being able to bring change - as we all know we really need . But very few actually took up the challenge and joined . Deep pity and perhaps in 12 months time they may rethink on what they might of been able to do. But by then it will be 2 late. Just look at what is coming down the line re laws, dictatorship etc. Yes the extension to Sept is nothing as it will be moved and adjusted for more permanent powers. I would lay a bet there may actually never be another election. They will delay as emergency measures as they say -until NWO takes full effect and then there will be no need or point as it will be full Communist style Dictatorship anyway. Get your gruel bowl ready people.
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