As usual, Pie is spot on!! Funding the Tory Party, sleaze, corruption and populism. They landed us with Brexit and Johnson!! They made fools of us!! Now we’ve got the most incompetent government in the history of Britain!!
The Corona Diaries – Day 734
Today I was really beginning to feel that I was getting back to normal. The nasal congestion is receding, the cough has almost gone – just a bit of phlegm and feeling a little washed out.
The sun was shining brightly so I went for a walk up my hill. The fields were green and shone in the sunlight. It was very clear across to the sea. The snowdrops were looking more sprightly in the sunshine – like great swathes of snowdrifts. My kestrel flew overhead and was hovering over the fields hunting. Long-tail tits and colourful finches flitted along the hedgerows. Even so it felt desolate. The trees and hedges brown and skeletal – death-like. Spring has not really started in earnest yet.
On the way home I had to sit down for ten minutes as I was knackered. Covid takes it out of you.
Away in Ukraine, they are bravely fighting off the might of Russia. It looks as if Putin is not finding it as easy as he assumed it would be. The Ukrainians are putting up a spirited fight and there are heavy casualties. War is rarely an answer to anything. Hopefully, the Ukrainians will hold on and Putin will find that there is a huge Russian backlash against him.
We desperately need a different Russia, one that is a friend. It is an incredible place with amazing people. It doesn’t deserve this. Not that NATO doesn’t bear some responsibility!!
Mind you, Russia is not the only war. We have numerous wars going on with even more misery, death and terror than in the Ukraine and nobody seems to care.
Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, the full extent of our Tory involvement with the Russian oligarchs has yet to be revealed. Not only do they give millions to Tory funds but they pay cash for citizenship, cash for privilege and cash for lobbying, cash for honours. London is a home for dirty Russian money putting millions in the pockets of Tory banker chums and billions into the economy.
The Tory Party is now looking to play host to the Mafia! The question is are the Tories actually behind the county lines criminal gangs – taking a cut? Perhaps the Cosa Nostra are acting as advisers?
Obviously farcical though the Sussex University Centre for the Study of Corruption has stated that this is the most corrupt government we’ve had since the 2nd World War.
It really doesn’t surprise me – we’ve had lobbying scandals, PPE and Covid contracts awards to chums, massive personal gains, cash for peerages, cash for lobbying and private meetings, illegal donations, second jobs earning millions, illegal lobbying, wallpapergate, holidaygate, wine, nosh, flights…………
Brexit and Covid have proved to be cash cows for the Tories. They’ve made a killing. No doubt people like Rees-Mogg will make millions out of the Energy Crisis and war in the Ukraine!
So, in our pandemic that no longer exists there were another 31,638 new cases with another 121 deaths. World beating as usual. Oven-ready funerals!
Stay safe!!
The Red Wall
The Levelling Up Lie.
Levelling up is the latest distraction geared to take our minds off Johnson’s lies.
The trouble with Levelling Up is that it’s another lie!! They have put Gove in charge and there is a lot of words (no new ones), a lot of hot air. What there isn’t is any money!! Without money nothing will happen. It’s all lies!!
We are not just talking about the massive inequality that applies to the North and South. We are talking about the inequality between poor and rich, between black and white, between male and female, between privilege and the rest of us……
We have a society that is more unequal than it’s ever been!! That’s just how the overprivileged, wealthy Tories like it! To maintain this inequality was the reason the Tories were created in the first place!!
A couple of letters from yesterday’s Guardian…
‘The levelling up that’s needed is not just regional – it’s about building a fairer society in the whole of this wealthy country.
It means children from state schools having the same opportunities as those from private schools, and families from Cornwall to Norfolk, Newcastle to Bristol and Stoke being able to afford decent homes. It means no one having to choose between heating and eating, while for others the choice is which of their houses shall they spend this weekend in and in which car shall they travel to it.
It means taxing the rich, closing tax loopholes, giving contracts to the best rather than the best friends, and using a proper proportion of the nation’s wealth for those whose needs are greatest. It will never happen under a Conservative government.’
Joy Webb
Penistone, South Yorkshire
‘Looking forward so much to our levelling up – to the day when every British citizen can afford to send their child to Eton.’
David Rintoul
London
The positivity of Anne Frank
She was a prisoner in a secret hiding place surrounded by genocidal Nazis and war – yet she was so positive and was thinking about how to improve the world.
She puts us all to shame.
We could start by ridding the world of these extreme right-wing populists – Trump, Bolsonaro, Oban, Modi, Erdogan and Johnson.
These populists are, to a greater or lesser degree, the modern-day offspring of that same right-wing Nazi thinking that put such a wonderful human being as Anne Frank in a concentration camp and killed her.
When will we rid ourselves of populist fascism.
VOTE THEM OUT!!
Have the Tories gone too far??
Well Johnson stood on the steps of Downing Street and told us that he had a plan for the care of the elderly.
He lied. He had no plan.
Now he has raised taxes and Notional Insurance to raise the capital for the NHS and Caring. In other words the poor will pay for it while the wealthy continue to shove their loot tax-free in the Cayman Islands.
Some plan.
Now energy prices are going through the roof. Brexit has caused price rises across the board. Interest rates are zooming. Petrol is way up. How can poor people manage??
Will all those silly people who voted Tory realise what fools they were???
Tories only represent their own. Tax cuts for the rich. Cuts for public services and the poor.
Sleaze Goes On – A Tory Tale
Venn Diagram of Tory Characteristics.
Poetry – Tories in Ruins
Tories in Ruins
The Tories are in ruins.
There’s nothing spreads like fear!
Their party is in tatters
The end is drawing near.
They’ll employ the court jester
To entertain the troops;
Counting that we really are
Only fools and dupes.
Today we instate our new PM,
A blundering shambling wreck
Whose populism and blustering –
An albatross around our neck.
Alan Duncan and his pooper scooper
Won’t be enough to move the muck
Cleaning up after Boris
Is going to need a big dump truck.
Opher – 23.7.2019
The extremists are taking over as the Tories lurch to the far-right. Fed by fascist Steve Bannon they are developing their populist ideology, promoting the rich, playing on our fears, creating division and using racism to achieve their aims.
They think Boris is popular. They are prepared to put up with his blundering, blustering and buffoonery; because they think he will win them an election. For some reason people find him amusing. They think the overgrown public schoolboy connects with working class people.
Are people really that stupid?
Poetry – Fat Cats
Fat Cats
The fat cats are fat and are just getting fatter,
Licking up cream straight from the pot.
They’re skimming it off from those at the bottom;
Taking from those who don’t have a lot.
They think we won’t notice as they squirrel away,
On yachts and penthouses and a Bugatti or two
But we see what they’re doing and we’re not amused,
As they offer us menial jobs in the crew!
We can clean out their toilets and drive them around,
Care for their children or wash up their dishes,
On next to no pay, and don’t say a word,
As we live day to day on promises and wishes.
The fat cats deserve every penny they ‘earn’
Gambling our money, without a risk of their own.
They chortle and dine within the clubs they frequent
And gloat – but we mustn’t moan.
They have their huge pay cheques and jolly fat bonus
As the fat cats are fat and just getting fatter.
Necking their bubbly and dining in style!
Isn’t it time we spent money on things that matter!!
Opher – 7.7.2019
There’s a great injustice in the world. Those who work hardest end up with the least. There’s not enough money for our schools and hospitals and we can’t waste money on the scroungers, can we? Yet there’s plenty of money for gambling and banking – for those who contribute nothing.