I used to despair of those who claimed no
interest in politics, as if it had no effect on them. Latterly I’ve wished that
I could be the same.
I’d greatly prefer that the pronouncements
of Government didn’t send me into an inconsolable rage. That their idiocy, lack
of compassion and hatefulness was irrelevant to me, instead of producing an
apoplectic, fuming, bile-spewing monster.
Each day seems to concoct something new.
Every hour it seems there’s yet another reason to hate them more. Perhaps it’s
due to the ‘always-on’ nature of social media, drawing a new outrage to my
attention on a minute-by-minute basis. As
they stumble from one pathetic blunder to another I twitch like an inebriated
Kevin Spacey in a boy’s only casting session.
Boris Johnson thoughtlessly condemning a UK
citizen to spend longer in an Iranian jail, pah! He never thinks ahead (or at
all), why would I be surprised? Priti
Patel lobbying for cash to fund illegal operations in foreign countries,
whatever. Same old, same old. David Davies saying there are no reports on the
impact of Brexit on industry when six months earlier he’d claimed there were
between 50-60, yawn. They’re all fucking liars anyway why should one more lie
matter?
Perhaps it’s the drip, drip effect like a
form of infuriating water torture. One that’s more infinitely annoying than Piers
Morgan’s Twitter feed.
My major irritation currently is that it’s
all politics. Debates are thwarted and decisions handed down that have little
to do with what’s for the greater good, they only benefit the party in power.
They are self-serving and seem to take little account of what’s the best course
of action for the country.
Take one example, of which there are many.
A story has surfaced that Philip Hammond would’ve given the NHS more money in
the budget had their boss not insisted on it being £4 million. Whether the story is true could be debated, if there’s any truth in it we
should be astonished. Instead we’re ambivalent. In summary, the NHS got less
money than it needs because of a personal disagreement between two old blokes. Millions
of people put in danger due to politics.
When did MPs stop serving the public
interest? Or, when did they stop even trying to pretend that they are?
Brexit is an enormous, out-of-control
clusterfuck. No-one seems able to define one benefit that will arise from it.
Not one single benefit. Yet we plough ahead blindly and stupidly because a
small majority of people voted for it and will be annoyed and confused if it
doesn’t happen. The Government continues to mismanage it purely because they
know that to abandon it will cost them votes.
Perhaps it was always this way, perhaps I’m
naïve. You think that the Government is elected to improve the country’s
fortunes but all they can do is fire-fight, kow-tow and genuflect to the media
and a lot of people who should be told some hard truths rather than being
obeyed.
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