The news that NHS waiting lists have topped 7.5 million may have escaped if you if you get your information from the gutter press or if you are one of the 7.5 million on waiting lists. Instead, the red tops lead with horror stories about migration, of small boats full of John Foreigner types coming over here and taking our jobs and claiming our benefits simultaneously and the backlog in assessing asylum claims. In the midst of a cost of living crisis, with inflation still close to 8%, interest rates on the rise and record numbers using food banks and still the gutter press is banging on about migrants. It’s almost as if this is a crisis made in Downing Street. Actually, it really is.
There is a simple reason why so many asylum seekers are being put up in hotels, off shore boats and the like: government cut backs is one. Instead of increasing resources to deal with claims, or even leaving them the same, Sewerella Braverman has reduced them. When the French offer to assist building and paying for structures to deal with migration, we refuse to cooperate because of Brexit. Oh and speaking of Brexit, all those cross channel agreements we had across Europe don’t exist anymore because we demanded to become a third country.
Go, I hate putting forward conspiracy theories. There are enough nutjobs out there telling us how vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they prevent, how the liberal elite, despite not existing, is inflicting a ‘woke’ culture, which also doesn’t exist, upon the nation. But it’s effing obvious that this isn’t some kind of crackpot conspiracy. Britain is the grip of the hard right, chopping away at our freedom to protest, to organise and now distracting us from the real issues affecting our country.
Rishi Sunak has decided that the best way of clinging on to power, despite having no real idea what to do with it, is to launch into more culture wars. A country divided works, as Vladimir Putin knows only too well having worked so hard to extricate Britain from the rest of Europe by actively supporting and – who knows? – funding some of the Brexit campaign. Divide the country by creating massive distractions. To make us forget about the mess Sunak and his pals have created by droning on about “the boats”.
Migration is, of course, a far more complex subject than sections of the media would have you believe. By leaving Europe, we chose to massively reduce migration from the continent and more than replace it with non-European migrants from Pakistan, Nigeria and India. Maybe it’s a Commonwealth thing, I don’t know, but add to that the movement of people worldwide through war and, increasingly, climate change it is clear that unless we act quickly, we ain’t seen n-n-nothin’ yet. (The best way to stop migration is to deal with the reasons people want to leave their own countries in the first place: fact.)
It’s the same with Sewerella Braverman’s unhinged rants about wanting to lock up crooked lawyers, a bit like they do in places like – oh, let’s think – fascist dictatorships, like the one we are becoming. Or quarter-witted Tory party vice-chair Lee Anderson saying that migrants should “fuck off back to France”. Meanwhile, one in seven people linger on endless waiting lists, many dying before they are even seen and millions of others can’t afford to eat.
If Sunak grew a pair of cajones, he could sort everything out, from migration to food poverty. That he chooses not to says all you need to know all about him. Migration is a major part of the culture war he is using to divide the country in the hope that he can stay in power with his grubby little colleagues and he calculates that not enough of us will notice the con trick he is trying to carry out in plain sight.
Rish Sunak is the confidence man of Britain. Cynical, weak, entitled and without a grain of empathy towards those he is supposed to represent, we need to see him for what he is so that in 2024 we vote him out and he can spend more time spending his hundreds of millions in each of his four homes, but preferably his luxury penthouse property in California, where he is right now. This cynical, gurning little toad needs to be exposed for what he is: a cynical, gurning little toad.
