What a Bloody State We're In

Another week that has left me wearily shaking my head at the state of political discourse in this country.  It never ceases to amaze me the number of self-styled political commentators who seem to think that any horrible tragedy involving someone of non-British origin is the perfect opportunity to start spewing their anti-immigration rhetoric and race hate.  But that's what we got in the aftermath of those murders in Nottingham in which the perpetrator may or may not have been an asylum seeker, (he was non-white, so that was good enough for these goons).  Twitter, in particular, seemed to be full of their shit.  (Which shouldn't be surprising, with its continued rightward shift under Musk's ownership).  I mean, read the room guys - people are in shock, relatives of the victims in mourning: the last thing they or anyone else needs is more your 'culture wars' shit.  But that's where we seem to be at these days - any situation is seized upon as an opportunity to push extremist agendas, regardless of how inappropriate it might be.  Then there's the whole circus surrounding Boris Johnson and the parliamentary report into his misconduct during lockdowns and how he lied to parliament in order to cover it up.  The confected 'outrage' from his remaining supporters in the press and parliament is more than mildly ridiculous.  'How dare they be saying he's a liar?  Don't they know that he's Boris Johnson and therefore very important?" seems to be the gist of it all.

Then there's the matter of his resignation honours list - not only is it full of the absolute scum of the Tory party, the sort of people who have made no discernible contribution to public life other than supporting Johnson and/or donating to the Tories - but there are also some notable names missing.  Were they boycotted by Sunak when he forwarded the list, or were they omitted by Johnson, but he kept telling them that they were still on the list?  The latter seems to be case with the appalling Nadine Dorries, who seems to think that she was in line for a peerage for services to swooning over Johnson.  But she wants the truth, apparently.  Which is that the likes of Johnson, in reality, have nothing but contempt for the people who support and vote for him.  He'll string them along with all sorts of promises but, in the end, will shit all over them.  Yet they continue to think he's wonderful, practically worshiping the tosser.  Trump's the same - like Johnson, he'll happily throw his supporters and allies under the bus to save his own skin, secure in the knowledge that most of his brain dead/brainwashed acolytes will continue to practically orgasm over the very mention of his name and contribute money to his dodgy schemes.  

To be absolutely fair, this isn't confined to the right: just look at the 'Cult of Corbyn', whereby the utterly useless former Labour leader who took the party to the brink pf electoral extinction, is granted virtual sainthood by his obsessive supporters.  In this case, it tends to be the Corbyn entourage, who surrounded and enabled him and continue the cult, who have contempt for their supporters.  They clearly don't give a toss about the working classes or they wouldn't have spent so long enabling the Tories to cling to power and continuing to try and undermine any prospect of a Labour victory at the next election.  (These are the sort of predominantly middle class 'socialists' who think they know what's best for the working classes and if they don't like it and reject it at the ballot box then they deserve to suffer under yet another Tory government.  Presumably they think that if they keep the Tories in power long enough then the ungrateful proles will 'learn their lesson' and do as their 'betters' tell them and embrace the clapped out Marxist-Leninism they peddle).  What a bloody state we're in!