Wanting Out
Jul. 28th, 2021 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootJust how much do I need this holiday?
I am worn out. The whole claustrophobic fog of Brexit Britain lies thick across our media. Shops in England, Scotland and Wales are running low on supplies, and the Right screams 'pingdemic' while hauliers and retailers assure us it's Brexit rather than Covid; drivers feel unwelcome, don't fancy waiting in paperwork queues etc. Certainly there seem to be no shortages in Europe. We've suffered no lack personally, though I've heard reports of bare shelves from South East England to Fort William.
Civil rights are being chewed away everywhere we look, corruption and cronyism is so rife in government they don't even conceal it beyond bad lying. Lunatics decry the RNLI for saving migrant lives in danger on the sea; apparently such people should just be left to drown. A crazy anti-vaxxer grabs a megaphone and talks in Trafalgar Square comparing doctors and nurses to criminals at the Nuremberg trials. 'They hung!' she screams triumphantly and the crowd cheers. Priti Patel introduces a bill ferociously cruel towards refugees, while our press squeaks about the Olympics no-one can attend and a 2 million pound tourist 'mound' at Marble Arch that's been branded the worst attraction in London.
It's like living in a cupboard full of crazy goblins.
I am worn out. The whole claustrophobic fog of Brexit Britain lies thick across our media. Shops in England, Scotland and Wales are running low on supplies, and the Right screams 'pingdemic' while hauliers and retailers assure us it's Brexit rather than Covid; drivers feel unwelcome, don't fancy waiting in paperwork queues etc. Certainly there seem to be no shortages in Europe. We've suffered no lack personally, though I've heard reports of bare shelves from South East England to Fort William.
Civil rights are being chewed away everywhere we look, corruption and cronyism is so rife in government they don't even conceal it beyond bad lying. Lunatics decry the RNLI for saving migrant lives in danger on the sea; apparently such people should just be left to drown. A crazy anti-vaxxer grabs a megaphone and talks in Trafalgar Square comparing doctors and nurses to criminals at the Nuremberg trials. 'They hung!' she screams triumphantly and the crowd cheers. Priti Patel introduces a bill ferociously cruel towards refugees, while our press squeaks about the Olympics no-one can attend and a 2 million pound tourist 'mound' at Marble Arch that's been branded the worst attraction in London.
It's like living in a cupboard full of crazy goblins.
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