I would give my left arm for all this nonsense to be a result of incompetence and opportunist profiteering.
Good people will always try and find the goodness in someone else (in particular, their motivations), not the evil. The majority of us can't fathom ill-intentions because the majority of us live relatively decent lives and wish to find the enjoyment in living those lives.
I've been guilty of dismissing other's opinions as being 'conspiracy theory' nonsense because I too seek the goodness in those that mould our way of life. But how many coincidences and observations can my logical brain continue to dismiss?
I can't help the niggling feeling that we'll never see another election again. Not because they're currently able to ban them under the Coronavirus Act (yes, you read that right), but because the silence in opposition is deafening.
To me, the self-harming actions the government have taken, irrespective of incompetence, are politically suicidal. If I told you 2 years ago we'd be where we are, looking down the barrel of a syringe, you'd not only be justified to whack me with a roll of Baco, you'd logically jump on the opposition wagon and fill your boots:
10 years of austerity, cuts in all public services for a decade to save £30 billion, then borrow that in March followed by hundreds of billions in April?
Draconian measures that destroy businesses, jobs and livelihoods? (Don't the unions exist to prevent this kind of thing?)
Dubious payments to companies in procurement?
Never once calling out questionable and ambiguous data?
Just one of the above would normally be screamed to kingdom come. I heard Starmer utter something about his displeasure at potential misappropriation of funds and the lack of competitive tender, but under normal circumstances he wouldn't have shut up about it, if only to try and score some future points come election time. Other than that, tumbleweed.
Politically, we have two hopes (no, not Bob and no). The first is the hope that Tory rebels can kick up a big enough stink before the injections start and get some sort of guarantee that refusal will never result in the loss of any freedoms (a sentence I never thought I'd be able to utter, especially so soon after Remembrance Day) - because once we jump on that slippery slope, protest will soon become civil disobedience, swiftly followed by rioting and looting, then the inevitable martial law. Then, if the Queen's tears and thoughts demonstrated on every 11th November have meant anything, our only peaceful hope left will be her stepping in and dissolving this debacle. Bearing in mind the next in line's position on this, he may as well be called Bob.
We've been duped into thinking world war 3 will be between nations, not the nations against the state.
For the sake of mine and everyone else's children, please let it be incompetence.
For the sake of our children, please find our parliamentary opposition and assault them with foil in the shade of The Cenotaph.
I genuinely can't believe I've written this. A grown man with tears in his eyes and hope in his heart. I don't like where this is going, but I'd sure as hell die trying to stop it, for your kids as well as mine.
Jez, that's a fine post and I commend you for it. Sadly, I think your analyses is correct. Evil is upon us and at the moment I do not see a way out of the government criminality. I too wish this was incompetence but the same actions are taking place in virtually every country in the world so this is definitely being directed centrally. We don't know by whom or where they are based but their genocidal plans are definitely being put into action.
Without some sort of uprising we are done for.
A very moving post Jez. Sadly l have to agree it's very accurate as well. I believe we are sliding into totalitarianism. The one thing that l am bemused by the most on this site, as good as it is, is those who mock and deride those proclaiming 'Conspiracy Theories', because the one thing for certain, is that something just isn't right, from which ever angle you look.
Over the past few days we have seen the legitimate broadcasts of eminent anti-lockdown scientists taken down by various tech-giants. So these tech-giants now apparently run democracy and not the (demos) the people.
Added to which we are all expected dutifully, unquestioningly to be injected with a substance, to which we have no legal redress for any subsequent physical or mental health issue arising, it's madness, you wouldn't even buy a kettle, without a guarantee or legal reassurance.
We are in troubled waters fellow sceptics, but sadly l still saw umpteen mask wearers today outside,even in a nature reserve.
These poor souls obviously still trusting all of Boris's lies.
Hopefully the backbenchers can oust him and the sooner the better.
... at the moment I do not see a way out of the government criminality.
The general public get fined for expressing their disagreement by demonstrating. It has been pronounced a criminal act endangering public health, even though their intent is to protect it.
The government endangers public health by forcibly implementing measures that cause greater danger to public health. Is that also not a criminal act, even though their intent is to protect it?
If so, the punishment should be many times greater.
The story of the Bull and the Pheasant
A pheasant was standing in a field chatting with a bull.
"I would love to be able to get to the top of yonder tree', sighed the pheasant, 'but I haven't got the energy'.
'Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. 'They're packed with nutrients'.
The pheasant pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. And so on. Finally, after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Whereupon he was spotted by a farmer who dashed into the farmhouse, emerged with a shotgun, and shot the pheasant right out of the tree.
Moral of the story:
Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.
