It is indisputable that the UK faces significant economic and social crises.
It is also beyond dispute that there are substantial failings in the UK's public services, whether due to underfunding of many of them or institutional misogyny in police forces.
In the face of this the government has three major legislative proposals at present.
One is to create impose a new and costly law aimed at preventing voter fraud, which is a crime that hardly exists.
Another will allow action against those who might organise or take part in protests that have yet to happen.
The third is require minimum service level guarantees from those who plan strikes in the public sector when the government cannot offer such guarantees on any other day.
It is as if we have a government that has noticed and understood its inability to legislate for the real world and has decided to legislate for a parallel universe instead.
This is, in other words, a government so detached from reality that it now addresses issues arising in its own fantasy.
I too have a dream. It is that this government be gone. The problem is that I am aware that this is unlikely to happen for almost two years as yet. Government for another place, time and real-world scenario will continue until then.
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I was thinking exactly the same this morning listening to the bellicose statements of Tory MPs in the parliamentary debate on the radio this morning.
Fanatics – the lot of them.
But it is telling isn’t it. As ever – particularly with the reactionary Right wing and Fascists (who always tell us that the Left is reactionary) – there is something scaring them. They’ve seen something they do not like.
So, in a weird way, they too have seen the other world that you have seen Richard . But instead of it’s realisation, Sunak & Co aim is to stamp it out for their masters – the rich- and maintain the status quo.
Another area of fantasy is the idea that increasingly fascistic rhetoric (an unapologetic minister recently called by a holocaust survivor for her dehumanising language) and draconian legislation will magically stop desperate people from trying to cross the Channel to seek refuge from persecution.
Agreed
The voter fraud legislation is so blatantly geared towards suppressing votes which might go to the opposition, it’s outrageous. Everything this government are doing is solely designed to shore up what votes they have left not what the country needs, hence the small boat obsession to try and head off Nigel Farage and co.
The worry for me is what else they think of as they get more desperate. It’s almost inevitable that they ditch Sunak if the polls are the same this time next year, and I suspect he knows it.
You really hit the nail on the head here!
Speaking of fantasists, I understand that “gov” will introduce legislation to ban landslips:
https://www.cityam.com/track-london-landslip-hanging-basingstoke/
Landslips that insist on happening will be fined initially & if persistent – jailed. That’ll learn ’em!
🙂
I suppose at least Labour (Angela Rayner), in the Grauniad, have pledged to repeal the lastest anti strike laws.
We are going to need a lot more of that kind of attitude from the opposition. I will not hold my breath.