Guest blogger SNAPPER, columnist in the mega popular North East events and reviews mag The Crack, puts a way forward….
A “lame duck administration” could apply to a government who are not made up of the brightest and best. Who let a health service collapse. Who underfund schools and a country’s infrastructure. Who let water companies pollute rivers and seashores with human excrement. Who party and take the piss while the rest of the country locks down and attends funerals. Who travel by air while the rest of us struggle to travel by non-existent trains and grid-locked roads. Who condemn striking workers for the kind of pay rises their mates in the city wouldn’t even get out of bed for. Who are quite happy to invent policies that play to their supporter’s worst instincts and distract everyone else from proper governance. Who are the absolute dregs of arrogance and privilege. Who are the Tory party circa 2023. Who will limp to a General Election in 2024, utterly bereft of a single credible policy or idea.
The question is, of course, how the hell are we going to survive until then? Poisoned by shit, unable to access the NHS or travel to a hospital that works. Well, there’s always the lessons of France in 1789 and Russia in 1917, but as we’re a bit of a conservative lot maybe there’s less revolutionary solutions.
How about not paying our taxes? Not paying water rates? How about not paying train fares? How about not working? How about quiet quitting? How about putting Boris Johnson in prison? How about turning off all news media as a way of improving one’s mental health? How about going on marches and protesting against the Tories in any way you can? How about supporting all the striking workers? How about giving Gary Lineker a pat on the back?
The solution to this government lies in our own anger, energy and creativity. We don’t have to follow their lead and be lame ducks too. We can defy them and have fun. What can be better than that?
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