2024-01-24
The UK government appears to be operating in the fantasy land of its own propaganda, where regardless of the facts on the ground, the government always knows best.
Examples of which we all have personal experience:
"Our" NHS - otherwise known as the bottomless pit into which the governing classes are compelled by their own rhetoric to pour ever-increasing amounts of money simply because they can't think of any other "solution". Of course there is always a new reason for this (they were "underfunded", they were "inefficient and should be privatised", they were "inefficient and should be nationalised" "its a pandemic!" etc).
The railways - see above
Transport for London - see above
Of perhaps more significance for our future is their fantasy of global domination, as illustrated by today's headline in the Telegraph:
"Army chief: Public face call-up if UK goes to war" - slightly softened in the on-line Telegraph as they realised that they may have overstepped:
"Ukraine conflict shows calling up public can win wars, says UK Army chief"
Ukraine seems to cautiously agree - but whatever happened to the previous mass mobilisation of Ukrainians, and whose citizens are they now wanting mobilised?
Will their answer to their favourite protagonists losing wars be to for ever stoke those wars with our UK resources, even including our own sons and daughters as cannon-fodder?
To the point: in what way has Ukraine demonstrated that calling up their public has shown positive results? Even with NATO providing training and equipment?
Now our politicians have already taken sides in the Middle East by bombing the Houthis in Yemen (ineffectively as it turns out) - how soon will they be calling up UK conscripts for the army to go and eject Hamas from their tunnels under Gaza with just as little success?
Is it not now high time for us to take our self-deluded self-obsessed and ever more obviously unhinged political classes more seriously?
Will we really support them to pour our conscripted sons and daughters down black holes in Gaza / Ukraine with the same insouciance as they have poured our money into "our" NHS?
