our leaders

Listening to the radio, the news seems really bleak.

Covid, energy companies collapsing, shortages of skilled workers and a horizon where the only view is endless inflation and shortages of goods.

Our government, such as it is, must shoulder the blame for much of the current situation.  I know the pandemic wasn't their fault, but the treatment of it and all the deaths were.

Unfortunately, ever since the early 80s the United Kingdom has become a nation where the individual is greater than the collective and greed is good. Government owned utilities were the subject of large scale privatisation with only a token nod to regulation and an emphasis on profits and dividends above anything else.

carry on laughing

Is it any surprise we are where we are.

I mean, when two of the last three Prime Ministers belonged to a university society where initiation involved burning £50 notes in front of homeless people you're not going to get an equal society are you?  

Any "front" put up to make them seem like caring people is quite frankly a joke.  And with a cabinet consisting largely of entitled multi-millionaires any pretence of being "in touch" with the people only makes me laugh even more.

Our government is made up of rich, talentless and un-caring buffoons.  And sadly there is little prospect of change any time soon.

Don't get me wrong here.  I have absolutely nothing against wealth and have only admiration for people who have worked hard to make their fortune (just as long as they then pay their fair share in taxation - but that's another story).  But when it's a condition of membership to the government it really sticks in my craw.

Winter of discontent MKII incoming.