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Hancock...You've been a Naughty Boy!

We can now expect to see Hancock blamed for everything that went wrong with the governments response to COVID, absolving Spaffer and the rest of the immoral bastards. It will be subtle and start with a drip here, a drip there through media allies (the usual suspects) etc.. make the public hate him, then the pillory. Textbook scapegoating.

^^^ 100%

And Covid will be blamed for anything bad happening in the future economically etc for the next 5+ years...
 
Great comment in FT.com:

Well well well..
  • Incompetence is okay - no need to go for that
  • Hypocrisy is okay - perfectly defensible - just say no
  • Corruption is okay - Dido going from strength to strength
  • But losing the support of Murdoch and the Sun... well that's you 86'd immediately...
Who'd have thought it... ?
 
(although a lot of what we’re seeing now is a direct result of lots of respectable political players joining forces to make sure Labour’s one attempt to offer an alternative failed).

Yes, this is what is most depressing. For all the clamour for an alternative type of politics, when push came to shove, an alternative is not what people wanted. Whatever the reasons for rejecting an alternative type of politics, the fact that it was rejected means we will be stuck with politics as usual for the foreseeable future.

Depressing
 
For all the clamour for an alternative type of politics, when push came to shove, an alternative is not what people wanted. Whatever the reasons for rejecting an alternative type of politics, the fact that it was rejected means we will be stuck with politics as usual for the foreseeable future.

That “alternative” may have appeared so from a Labour perspective, but it was pretty much what other progressives have been offering forever, but with added capitulation to the far-right ethnic nationalism of Brexit and minus absolutely anything to do with electoral reform or political accountability. Sure, compared to Blair, Blunkett and the rest of them it might have looked radical, but compared to what was actually needed it was pathetic. A reasonable centre-left manifesto delivered by someone as slippery and evasive as Blair who even allowed several of his MPs to share stages with the far-right.
 
That “alternative” may have appeared so from a Labour perspective, but it was pretty much what other progressives have been offering forever, but with added capitulation to the far-right ethnic nationalism of Brexit and minus absolutely anything to do with electoral reform or political accountability. Sure, compared to Blair, Blunkett and the rest of them it might have looked radical, but compared to what was actually needed it was pathetic. A reasonable centre-left manifesto delivered by someone as slippery and evasive as Blair who even allowed several of his MPs to share stages with the far-right.
We’ve argued around these points many many times, but the brutal truth is that none of the other progressives stood a chance of power except the Lib Dem’s who had power but proved anything but progressive when it came to using it and actually only empowered, enabled and supported the very ethnic nationalism, Brexit and austerity you deplore.

But my point was not to go over old arguments again, but to highlight the depressing fact that an alternative politics to that which we now live under is unlikely, and that is depressing.
 
But my point was not to go over old arguments again, but to highlight the depressing fact that an alternative politics to that which we now live under is unlikely, and that is depressing.

I’m far from convinced. Now it is becoming increasing clear that the Tories are fundamentally corrupt, Labour are beyond useless (and also corrupt), Brexit is a disaster and Little England is spiralling down the pan (likely alone as Scotland goes its own way and NI descends back into civil war) there might eventually be a realisation that the whole system has failed. It is only from that point that we can rebuild. I personally don’t see Labour as part of that process at all. They are clearly part of the problem and will likely be flushed-out with the Tories in any truly democratic scenario. I far prefer to believe in ideas and ideals, not parties. It isn’t over yet…
 
I’m far from convinced. Now it is becoming increasing clear that the Tories are fundamentally corrupt, Labour are beyond useless (and also corrupt), Brexit is a disaster and Little England is spiralling down the pan (likely alone as Scotland goes its own way and NI descends back into civil war) there might eventually be a realisation that the whole system has failed. It is only from that point that we can rebuild. I personally don’t see Labour as part of that process at all. They are as much part of the problem and will likely be flushed-out with the Tories in any truly democratic scenario. I far prefer to believe in ideas and ideals, not parties.
While I hope you’re right, continually identifying Labour as *the* problem misses the fact that other actors have figured in the downward spiral that has got is to where we are and I still don’t see where the recognition of a failed system that will flush out the compromised politics of left, right *and* centre will come from.

PS. I share your affiliation to ideas as opposed to parties or personalities and always have.
 
While I hope you’re right, continually identifying Labour as *the* problem misses the fact that other actors have figured in the downward spiral that has got is to where we are and I still don’t see where the recognition of a failed system that will flush out the compromised politics of left, right *and* centre will come from.

I see it as systemic failure. We are exactly where countries end up if they do not have representative democratic systems. I cite Labour as a key part of the problem as they actively support an electoral system designed to return Tory governments with all-powerful majorities based on 39-43% of the popular vote. I can’t express it any more clearly than that. Any political party that is opposed to real electoral reform is part of the problem and as such is an entity I am actively fighting against.
 
I see it as systemic failure. We are exactly where countries end up if they do not have representative democratic systems. I cite Labour as a key part of the problem as they actively support an electoral system designed to return Tory governments with all-powerful majorities based on 39-43% of the popular vote. I can’t express it any more clearly than that. Any political party that is opposed to real electoral reform is part of the problem and as such is an entity I am actively fighting against.
If we accept that the Lib Dem’s for all their talk of being pro PR are psychologically incapable of delivering it, and Labour is, well, Labour, where does that leave us? Is there a PR organisation or group to join? The Greens? While they will likely get my vote because they are the only group to represent my views, as an organisation they’re a bit flawed.
 
It’s being reported that MH got caught by a camera hidden in a smoke alarm that he didn’t know was there and there is going to be an inquiry into who leaked the video. Better questions would be why was it there? Who asked for it to be fitted and when? Who was monitoring it and why did they have the user privileges to be able to make a copy of it? How many more hidden cameras are there? Maybe BJ’s Nixon moment?
 
Tabloids, frequently demonized here, suddenly become interesting. But nobody ever reads them, no doubt.
 
Tabloids, frequently demonized here, suddenly become interesting. But nobody ever reads them, no doubt.

I don’t agree. I have zero interest where Tories stick their genitals as long as it isn’t in children, the mentally ill or animals. They can stick them in anything up to and including food blenders with my full consent. I have not the slightest care for the families involved, they knew what they were dealing with by marrying people as fundamentally crooked and deceptive as Mat Hancock, Boris Johnson or whoever. These people have never been anything other than what they are.

All I care about here is the tens of thousands of people this administration have killed with their gross incompetence, negligence and greed, and I want to see the countless £bns of tax revenue they have stolen or siphoned into donor pockets for non-delivered or substandard products returned. The feigned tabloid outrage in attempting to identify moral codes within fundamentally immoral people distracts hugely from that goal. I wish they would just follow the money and expose this shower of trough-feeding criminals as exactly what they are. The only story here is Hancock used tax money stolen from us to pay for a shag, but that isn’t how they are reporting it.
 


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