Abnormal Normal

 

I'm not sure where this 'new normal' is leading us. One thing is for certain, many more people than is usual will die this year, as a direct consequence of this government's mishandling of our economy. Period. The government continues, relentlessly, to uphold the first law of conservatism: don't touch the markets, capital will sort itself out and restore balance to society. This is palpable nonsense wrapped in a cosy blanket of hypocrisy and untruth: these people are paid handsomely to represent their constituents, which for some of them is an automatic shoo-in whatever happens, as they hold the modern electoral equivalent of the Rotten Boroughs of old: basically a dead cert, preaching and appealing solely to the converted - meaning comfortably wealthy - and guaranteed their place in parliament, no matter what tosh they spout.

The cracks, however, are showing, and the Red Wall seats will be the first to turn turtle: there is more common sense borne of desperation, than in times of relative prosperity, when the turn of the vote hinges on the subtleties of the price of, as we used to phrase it, cigarettes and booze, rather than anything of real significance, such as survival itself. The problem with most wealthy Tories - most of our current government are indeed wealthy - is that they simply have no context within which to operate: they have no real point of reference from which to gain any practical perspective on the lives of the vast majority of the population, who, under current economic constraints, will simply have nowhere to go and no resources to survive. It will be a brick wall for them: nowhere forward and nowhere back: just a void. An emergency convening of parliament - on a war footing [that in itself may not be so far away, the way things are going] - is what is needed: an enforced National Government of a coalition of all parties, to sort out this mess before 'business' - read unfettered liberal capitalism - finally shafts the country, its people, and ultimately itself, once and for all.