Dominic Cummings – finally telling the truth

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I do love Chris Riddell! Thanks John Peachey for sending them through.

There is a great irony in Dominic Cummings. He’s like a jilted lover. His lies are what powered Brexit and propelled Johnson to the Prime Ministership. Will he now gain his revenge by telling the truth?

He was the one who cooked up all the lies about the oven-ready deals that turned out neither to be world-beating nor oven-ready. He was the one who lied about the £350,000 on the side of the bus and stoked up the xenophobia and racism with scare stories of terrorists, five million Turks and being swamped with Eastern Europeans. He was the one who created Project Fear and had all the sane Tories kicked out.

The man was the mastermind behind a right-wing coup that has put Britain in a very dire situation.

Now the man has the inside information on the sleaze and incompetent that is the very centre of Johnson’s corrupt regime! Will he spill the beans??

Instead of spinning lies will Cummings seek revenge by telling the truth for once??

Poetry – Democracy/Shamocracy

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Democracy/Shamocracy

A multi-headed beast

                With many names

Whose nutrition

                Is truth,

Now a skeleton

                Starved of calories

Living on crumbs,

                Barely alive.

Caught between spin and lies

                Between tactics and cynical deceit.

Sacrificed by political dupes

                With media deployed as political tools.

Treating us as fools

                The truth is strangled to death.

Never have I had a vote that counts.

Never read a tabloid without bias.

Without the truth there is no valid choice.

Never have I lived in a true democracy.

27.3.2021

Democracy works very simply. Everybody has a single vote. They vote for the candidate they believe will best reflect their views and interests.

That sounds simple.

It’s far from simple.

In order to ascertain if the candidate shares your own perspective one needs unbiased information.

There is no unbiased information. There are too many vested interests; too much big money.

Politicians lie.

They pretend.

They promise.

The media is controlled.

They deploy spin and lies.

They disguise what they are doing.

There are too many vested interests.

We do not receive a true picture. We do not receive the information with which to make a sound judgement.

There are only a limited number of places in the country where a vote might count.

I have either lived in strong Labour parts of the country or strong Tory parts. My vote has never counted.

Democracy is a sham