There was a moment, yesterday, watching the television news, where a journalist was in the west Midlands - Wolverhampton to be precise - asking Tory voters about this latest scandal to embroil the government. The moment was when all three interviewed started their replies to the obvious question with, 'I don't think Boris has done a bad job' or 'I'm not really that bothered about the parties...' and 'It's a shame...'
No. It's shameful. You have to be some cold, uncaring individual to think that it wasn't.
The problem with trying to have an argument with someone over COVID isn't too dissimilar to one on Brexit, people, as I often repeat myself, have their beliefs and few change them. We've had 150,000 deaths from the virus, except we haven't, because a lot of people think this is an inflated figure, possibly to suppress us with fear or to control us. Apart from the fact that we're pretty much controlled anyhow and it was a lot cheaper to do without a global pandemic, just makes ideas like this sound silly. Why lie? No... that's the problem isn't it? We all know that Boris lies now. Even his supporters. So why believe it's 150,000? Why not believe then that every other country in the world is also prefabricating its death tolls, therefore suggesting that our own 3rd largest per capita on the planet might only be 8th or 9th or 90th?
You see, this is the problem. People have so many divided and diverse beliefs about COVID that a race began before it peaked to try and return to normal and accept that a lot of people will die before it becomes a flu-threat level problem - endemic. Most capitalists don't care about human life if it gets in the way of profit and their shills follow suit, many of who are politicians able to enable. So, when you have people who view the virus as, say, an opportunity or a means to an end, you're always going to put people at risk.
But let's imagine some of the doubters are correct and we haven't really had 150,000 COVID deaths, it's probably closer to 20,000, not much worse than the flu [it is] and this has all been a waste of time. Does that make 20,000 deaths okay then? And if it does, how can you possibly justify that and think of yourself as a human being?
Few people with enough brain cells are now denying the existence of the virus, so by accepting it exists I presume they accept that it can kill people - any people and not in a selective way? Even if the risk to individuals is small, is it worth taking that risk, for the sake of other people's lives? You know, the risk of mixing with people who might be asymptomatic.
The problem is, when you have to impose rules on the people for their own protection and to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed, because you've underfunded it for a decade, you don't take that decision lightly, nor do you do it without the knowledge that it will have some effect on the population, one that is especially used to its freedoms.
You know outlandish conspiracy theories? Like the moon landings or the flat earth? You know how in over 50 years not one single person who worked on the Apollo missions, at NASA, at all the other companies connected, not one of them has come forward and said, 'The moon landings were fake, they were filmed by Stanley Kubrick at Shepperton Studios.' It doesn't matter how much 'proof' you want to believe, the fact no one connected to the project, not even someone on their death bed has even hinted at it, should make you realise that it's stupid not to believe it.
I use this as an example because unless Dominic Cummings' team - as clever as they allegedly were - and Boris's lackeys - as stupid as we've witnessed - knew that all of these parties would eventually become public knowledge and didn't give a shit about it, or they believed that every single person who attended every single party; every single police officer working at Downing Street and every single civil servant there would have kept their mouth shut for fear of losing their job and I can't believe anyone would be that conceited (and yes, I know, but conceitedness doesn't equate to stupidity) to believe they thought they could get away with it (unless they didn't care)...
Yes, maybe this was just one of the many bits of info Cummings took with him to fuck Boris up in the future, in a true Machiavellian way, but it doesn't excuse the fact that after all that money was frittered away on mates' dodgy PPE or spreadsheet track and trace systems, or that some of the government's ideas of kickstarting the economy also kickstarted the second wave of COVID, or those deaths, whether it's a fraction of 150,000 or maybe more; after all those people who lost so much, loved ones, parents, siblings, children, friends, who died alone with just the comfort of strangers - all these things happened and your government was quaffing wine and cheese and probably knocking someone up in a cupboard. The people who lost businesses, jobs, money and their minds and just about every single community in the entire UK has been affected by the last two years and the Conservatives thought they could regularly party and no one would know, or care, because, you know, these political people work really hard (obviously much harder than doctors, nurses, health care professionals, shop workers, etc).
So when people say they feel sorry for Boris, have they considered that he really doesn't deserve any sympathy. He loves that you love him, that's what narcissists are like, but he can't really see that he's done anything wrong and that's what sociopaths are like. Yet people seem to think he's a decent chap, like they thought Farage was (and still is) a decent chap. The fault, I'm afraid lies with us. Maybe not the people who didn't vote for him, but those that did. For the second time in five years the British public cast a vote that would have dire consequences on their future. We only have ourselves to blame and if I've learned one thing in the last ten years, the British [English] haven't finished with the self-flagellation route, just yet.
This isn't really about Boris, because he's just the totem that the rest of the Tories follow. This has to be about all Tories, whether they're politicians, councillors, activists or just voters. It's time to stop pointing fingers, using whataboutery (like the Daily Mail has this morning trying to justify all of No10's parties because they have a photo of Obi Wan Keir drinking a glass of wine at a social event in April 2021) and trying to prove to people that they care about anyone other than themselves. The Tories have proved year on year that they look after the rich and the privileged and they gaslight you into thinking all the problems in the country are caused by those with the least amount of influence, and you buy it, EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
