Tag: Politics

Slippery slope

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Party Vice Chairman

favours the death penalty

whipping up hatred

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by Scooj

  • further evidence, as if it were needed, that our Conservative Government is drifting even further to the right. The appointment of the loud-mouthed “30p” Lee Anderson as party Vice Chairman demonstrates that there is nothing left in the party. All the Europhiles have left or been ousted, the moderates have been silenced, and the primary qualification for getting into the Cabinet is a rabid Brexit stance.
  • I remain in a constant state of revulsion and despair. What am I supposed to tell my children? They are being brought up in a political landscape where it is normal to lie, to deceive, to disrespect, to blame the poorest and the vulnerable and to be strong instead of compassionate. I still hate what they have done to my country, my home.
  • Anyone who says “well, what’s the alternative” or “I’m not sure Keir Starmer…” is either a Tory or has never got over Jeremy Corbyn’s unpopularity (for whatever reason) and hence unelectability.
  • I think I might need to write some nice nature haiku!

Kill the Bill

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House of Lords slow march

protect the right to protest

right-wingers thwarted

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by Scooj

Liz Truss

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No self-awareness

no conscience or dignity

misplaced confidence

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once disgraced Prime Minister

is attempting a comeback

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by Scooj

  • I never thought I’d ever be writing about Liz Truss again in Natural Adventures. She was a busted flush, or so we all thought, but such is the arrogance of the right wing tory politicians in this country and their lack of self-awareness, that they will do anything for power. Jaw-dropping – this is the woman who single-handedly crashed our economy only a few months ago. Who does she think she is?
  • I predict that this might well be the straw that breaks the Tory camel’s back, and sincerely hope so. They have systematically destroyed our country, kept a kotowing working class in their place, dismantled our public services in preparation for privatisation and benefitted only the rich. The re-emergence of Truss will cause chaos in the party.
  • I predict a May 2023 general election.

Bias

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Journalist bias

aggressive towards strikers

let Ministers off.

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by Scooj

  • I am sick and tired of lazy journalists who are tireless in their critical questioning of union representatives and yet continue to fawn over Government Ministers whose mandate is questionable and judgement appalling. When journalists claim that people don’t support strikes, they do not represent me or many like me who do support them. They parrot the Government narrative, which they have been using for years… “What most people want to see is…” (for example an end to immigration, or some other sweeping statement). That is when I shout at the radio or TV and say, where is your evidence for making that statement, something the lazy journalists should be doing.

On merit

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Meritocracy

has yielded to corruption

a reboot required

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by Scooj

Shut the door on your way out

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Elizabeth Truss

useless right-wing think tank stooge

you will not be missed

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by Scooj

Interesting to note that in the Daily Star’s contest about who would last longer between a lettuce or Liz Truss, the lettuce won. A meme that will haunt her forever.

It goes on

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Exasperation

every time Jacob Rees-Mogg

opens his big mouth

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by Scooj

  • It becomes exhausting getting so worked up, when this particular politician speaks. I genuinely don’t think that he and I share any values at all.

Power struggle

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Vultures gathering

carrion of their own kind

no mercy, no care

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by Scooj

  • As the conservative party consider their options after Johnson goes.

Allegra

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You reap what you sow

mind the company you keep

a nest of vipers

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by Scooj

On the resignation of Allegra Stratton, former political adviser to Boris Johnson

Resignation

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Is honour, honour

when offered after outcry

a little too late

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by Scooj

On the news that Owen Paterson has resigned as an MP. There is no honour in this resignation that happened only after a massive reaction to some Conservative Party goal-post moving in the parliamentary standards committee operations, concocted to try and overturn Paterson’s suspension for breaking parliamentary rules. Sleaze bags the lot of them.

Paterson has a lot to answer for. As Secretary of State for the environment, a curious appointment as he was a climate change denier at the time, he waged war against the environmental movement deliberately discrediting it as the ‘green blob’ and referring to activists as ‘yogurt knitters’.

His appalling reign was eclipsed, unbelievably, by the utterly incompetent Liz Truss and dreadful creep Andrea Leadsom, both favoured high-fliers in the worst government in living memory.

I have only sympathy for Paterson’s family. His wife took her own life earlier this year, and that is awful on every level. While I feel sorry for him on a human level, it in no way changes my loathing for him as a politician.