Johnson May Well Be Gone But The Enemies Of Hope And Progress Remain
I’m not going to go on about Boris Johnson and kettles just now because I’ve seen the script, and there’s already enough of his crimes against the people on record, we hardly need to be making up others because we then risk becoming as bad as what they are.
The departing sewage-peddler Johnson did suggest sitting on a bus all day to keep warm, that’s for sure, and his cabinet members have been unbelievably helpful by telling us to put on more clothes and eat Tesco Value sausages.
Warm banks - a place where you can go if you cannot afford to heat your home - will be opening in museums, libraries and various other public buildings.
In World War II we had air raid shelters to protect the people from the fascists, now we gather in heated public buildings and queue up at food banks to protect us from the fascists in government.
But try not to worry too much, my friends, because some of Britain’s poorest households are going to receive a one-off “tax-free”, non-repayable, pre-Christmas bonus from the DWP - or “the social”, if you’re of a particular age.
Although I wouldn’t be planning that extra present for Tiny Tim just yet, and hold off on decking the halls, and definitely don’t waste a penny subscribing to liberal halfwits that seek payment for a followback on Twitter, because this bonus is for a whopping £10 (ten pounds).
I’m still not completely convinced we have seen the end of the malignant Johnson. He’s like that big thing in the toilet that needs a bit of manipulation before it finds its way into the sea at Hastings.
Whatever happens to Boris Johnson over the coming weeks and months you can bet the last of the emergency credit on your prepayment meter that he will continue to live a life of privilege that 99.9% of us will never even begin to understand.
Johnson departs from Downing Street with more than 4.3 million children in the UK languishing in poverty. Child poverty is expected to rise by a further 500,000 this year, bringing the total to 4.8 million. It is then expected to reach a record 5 million during 2023.
Johnson’s catastrophic response to the arrival of Covid-19 bordered on non-existent and utterly psychopathic. The only thing Johnson got right throughout the pandemic was his grim prediction that many of our loved ones wouldn’t be here with us now.
The haunted emptiness behind Johnson’s eyes is only matched by the darkness of his soul. Never forgive him, never forget what he has done, and never allow the commentariat to paint a golden legacy for the cu*t that is Boris Johnson.
But let’s talk about the other establishment deadwood with the red rosette.
They too have abandoned the poor and working classes - that the Labour Party was created to represent - and the man sized wet wipe Starmer is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.
“But the energy price cap freeze”, scream the Manic Keith Preachers, those tragic embarrassments that find themselves outriding for Starmer in the hope of getting an invite to the next Labour Party conference.
What about it? The conniving dingleberry is in opposition to the shittest and most corrupt government in living memory and the best he can come up with is keeping the people in extreme poverty?
Excuse me for not being overwhelmed by Starmer’s reactionary ineptitude.
Taking Starmer to battle against the cost of greed crisis is absolutely no different to taking a fart to a shit fight. The kind of people Starmer wants to represent are the kind of people that foisted this fucking nightmare upon us in the first place.
But yay for Starmer?
You’ve already ushered in one Tory government, if you seriously think we are going to help you deliver a red Tory government, I say to you, with the greatest of respect, get fucked.
Just this week their leader, whose dad owned a tool making factory, said “I actually do know what it is like to sit around the kitchen table not being able to pay your bills".
File that one under things that never happened.
It came as no great shock this week to see the vibrant Enough is Enough campaign and the RMT Union come under attack from people hellbent on making sure the left continue to campaign vociferously against the centrist Starmer.
We did the smears thing from 2016-2019, and we caved in way too easily. As I’ve said before, one of our biggest mistakes during those years was our failure to stand up together as one and treat the falsehoods with the contempt they deserved.
But I sense many of us have learned from those difficult times, because the attacks on Enough is Enough - Eddie Dempsey in particular - from a handful of clout-chasing liberals, are nearly as lame and ineffective as the plank Starmer himself.
More than half-a-million people, from all walks of life have joined up with the Enough is Enough campaign. This isn’t far off the Labour membership peak under Jeremy Corbyn, to give you an idea of the popularity of the new movement fronted by people such as Mick Lynch and CWU boss, Dave Ward.
Let’s assume this 500,000 continues to grow, maybe up to a million. Now imagine the difference one million votes would make at a general election and you will begin to understand why Starmer sees the Enough is Enough campaign as a real threat to his hopes of becoming Prime Minister in two years time.
The establishment will pursue the anti-Enough is Enough campaign with the same vigour and vitriol we experienced under the rise of Corbynism.
The Enough is Enough campaign represents popular opposition to the cost of greed crisis. I believe in time they will disrupt the fundamentals, and this is why it is so crucial that the whole of the left and the wider movement come together and defend our principles, and our people.
The politicians, whether that’s the Tories or the other Tories, will both defend the establishment with everything that they have because they see socialism as an existential threat.
But the real threat to our way of life is the continuation of the demonstrably disastrous capitalist project.
We cannot continue to go on like this.
We cannot continue to accept our people having to go without food for days on end while major shareholders of huge corporations are receiving dividends that would take the average worker around 30 years to earn.
We cannot continue to accept the fact that 5 million of our children will be living in poverty within months when the government can find £120 million for a ‘Festival of Brexit’ - an attraction that was expected to be visited 66 million times yet has only seen 238,000 people bored enough to celebrate this carnival of Brexit dividends.
And we certainly cannot continue to accept the smearing of good, honest people at the behest of the political class, because our past acquiescence to these fraudulent attacks caused immeasurable damage to our movement.
Johnson’s time is at an end, for now at least, but Johnson alone isn’t the problem as the cancer of capitalism is deeply entrenched into our politics.
Neither Starmer or Liz Truss has the solutions because they are the problem. Everything that they stand for is what has landed us where we are now.
They are the walls that stand in the way of meaningful change, and it is now, more than ever, that we need to smash down those walls and ensure our arguments are heard louder and clearer than ever before.
Until next time,
Rachael
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