Boris Johnson: Grandstanding On The Carcass Of Brexit
A human tragedy requires a humane response, and this is something the British government, and embarrassingly, millions of British people are completely incapable of.
This week we’ve had Boris Johnson, waffling on about Peppa Pig, trying his utmost to distract us from the devastating Health and Social Care Bill, his dementia tax for the working classes, and the permanent stench of Tory corruption.
Then the heartbreaking news came from Calais.
27 people, humans, including 3 children and 7 women - one of whom was pregnant - drowned in the English Channel, attempting to make the dangerous journey from the North coast of France to Southern England.
Do you remember the gut-wrenching image of the body of 3 year old Alan Kurdi, washed up on a beach in Turkey? That was 6 years ago. Didn’t the international community collectively say “never again” and how “lessons will be learned”?
Britain has seen 3 Conservative Prime Ministers in this time, and we *still* find ourselves swearing these human tragedies mustn’t ever happen again.
The response from the British government is entirely consistent with their responses to the multiple crises they’ve dumped upon us over the last couple of years.
The Tories are guided by self-interest, this we know. Think of a logical solution to a problem and they will come up with the extreme opposite. There is no compassion, just platitudes. They are truly inept, the wasted money spent on privately educating that twat Boris Johnson and his cabinet of utter ghouls is only surpassed by the £37 billion gifted to the private sector for one of the most inadequate test and trace systems in the developed world.
First rule? It’s never their fault.
The response to the arrival of Covid-19 was the fault of the scientists. Boris Johnson decided when we locked down.
The response to the sleaze and corruption scandal was to pin the blame on the rules. These are their rules, they mark their own report cards.
The response to getting rumbled taking the family out for a birthday picnic during the height of the first National lockdown was to blame dodgy eyesight.
The response to the cost of living crisis was to cut benefits and increase National Insurance contributions. The correct response would be a simple wealth tax, but of course, they will not bite the hand that feeds them.
And the Tories appalling response to the tragic events in the English Channel was to immediately look for someone or something to blame, while Boris Johnson used a disagreement with President Macron of France as an opportunity to grandstand on the carcass of Brexit.
Playing the blame game will not save lives. It might give the hatemongering Daily Mail a headline or two and it might give the xenophobic S*n a chance to embarrassingly use some French words on their front page, but I can tell you now, it will not stop people from losing their lives in the English Channel.
I took one for the team this week. For the first time in as long as I can remember I had a look through the Daily Mail readers comments. I don’t like giving the Mail any clicks, it’s a horrible tabloid that carries way too much influence in the corridors of power. And the fuckers chased me down the road and doorstepped me, for the crime of being a lefty with a big mouth.
But honestly, imagine trying to swim around the coast of Britain, with your mouth and your eyes wide open, actively seeking out the largest turd to swallow, and you’ll get an idea of what it felt like sifting through the unbridled jubilation of the average Mail reading shithouse.
I’m pretty sure not every single Mail reader is a hate-filled racist, but I am utterly convinced that nearly every single hate-filled racist contributes to the readers comments section of the Mail Online.
“That will teach them” was a common theme. Teach “them” what? They’re fucking dead you moronic sloth.
“Saves us paying them benefits” was another frequent response. The benefits are better in France. Most of these *people* do not get into a small boat with their children, risking all of their lives, to come and “milk the system”, because the system isn’t worth milking.
Do you really think these *people* get as far away as possible from their (British) bomb-destroyed homeland for £6 a day, just to be surrounded by hostile little anti-Johnny-foreigner cu*ts - that find themselves saying, “that Darren Grimes…he’s got a point”?
I am yet to be convinced that anyone is born to hate, even the lowest scrapings from the barrel of humanity - Farage, Tommy Five Names, Priti Patel - none of them were born to hate. But their political ideology has carried them towards where they find themselves now - loathsome hard right *people* haters that rely on your fear of those ‘pesky foreigners’.
It is so much easier for the faces of the hard-right to blame all of society's ills on immigration, rather than face up to the fact that capitalism isn’t working. Trickle-down economics isn’t happening, it never has done, and it never will do.
The family in a rubber dinghy are not your enemy, and they’re not the cause of your problems. How silly do you need to be for me to have to explain this to you? No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.
If you need a scapegoat you can pick from one of the 171 billionaires residing in the UK. They will have a greater impact on your life than an Iraqi-Kurd fleeing the consequences of our military dick-waving.
Believe me.
Patel stood up in the Commons on Thursday and spoke about our renowned compassion towards *people* seeking refuge. She spoke about how “generous” Britain is towards the same *people*, and she managed to keep a straight face throughout.
This is the same heinous hate goblin that wants to criminalise someone if they save *people* from drowning in the English Channel. Patel is a ghoul, a nasty hard-right storm of hatred.
Refugees are people. They are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, with the same hopes and ambitions as us - except that a twist of fate has bound their lives to a global refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale.
You really have no reason to be afraid of them.
Be afraid of the despicable liars that are telling you that these tragically desperate *people* have come to steal your jobs, milk your benefits system, enforce Sharia Law and ban Christmas.
I’m way past trying to explain the benefits of extending the hand of friendship to our brothers and sisters from a foreign country, but what about compassion?
Having compassion and tolerance is by no means a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. Compassion is the basis of morality,
You are probably aware, we have 1.1 million job vacancies, an ageing and growing population, and a skills shortage that will not be solved by recruiting jobless British youngsters, despite what the right-wing tell us.
Boris Johnson and the Tory media want to put British police on French beaches - an idea so farcical that only Johnson could be responsible for it - but Macron wasn’t having any of it.
Can you imagine how Nigel Farage would respond if we had French police officers patrolling beaches from Brighton to Broadstairs?
So, instead of police officers, let’s send recruitment agencies. Let’s send a right of safe passage. Let’s take back control of our moral compasses. Let’s extend that hand of friendship. Let’s show we value every human life, regardless of race or faith.
When a majority of the people demand better the politicians find it difficult not to act. We must demand better, and robustly rebut the often false information peddled by the anti-refugee British Press.
Refugees are not terrorists. They are often the first victims of terrorism. Seeking asylum is a human right. The refugee crisis is a global crisis, and a global response is required, not this isolationist bullshit that we see from Downing Street.
The British people - aided by the Tory press - struggle to understand that no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.
I say to you, Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, and anyone else that is at ease with further men, women. and children drowning in the English Channel: shove your sovereignty where the sun doesn’t shine. People are dying.
The threat we face today isn’t refugees, but a politics that is utterly devoid of empathy.
Until next time,
Rachael
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