Politics? More Like Bollotics!
The Sexual Philanthropist author, John Langley, is still 'Blogging a dead horse' - so to speak in his latest blog post.
You won't find that in the dictionary as it's something I made up to describe the state of politics as we know it today.
Translated into the language you'd be more familiar with, it's a combination (total) bollocks and politics. How have we come to this, you may well ask? The lazy-thinking answer, I guess, would be to blame the politicians, because it's just human behaviour to apportion blame to another person, thing, or organisation rather than accept any ownership at all.
Let's not forget we are all completely blameless, and as pure white as the driven snow, yet we're the dopes who elect these people in the first place.
Politics has become a murky business in recent years as you know, and in many respects, arguably always has because somehow politics and scandal go together hand in glove. I don't know why it should come as such a surprise to people when a politician is found out to have fallen foul of our expectations when they are as human, and infallible as the rest of us. Yet, put them on a pedestal we do, with a false expectation that they are somehow holier than thou, arguably, almost saintly.
So, when some errant misdemeanour does surface our first reaction is to make it party-political because we have become so entrenched in one side against another and our hatred in this two-sided political system dominated by either the Conservative Party or Labour. As we head towards another General Election, I think it fair to say that the longer we have a Conservative government in power the deeper the hole it digs for itself that will eventually bury it, and, while I have become increasingly impressed with the radio interviews I've heard featuring the very down to earth, and genuine views of Labour's Wes Streeting and Rachel Reeves, I find myself struggling to hang my political hat on their party as a whole.
It's patently clear that the metaphorical ship of British politics is sinking, and our current government being captain of the vessel has buggered the rudder to such an extent that Labour has become the salvage vessel that the ship is too big and knackered to save as it sinks further, and further into the ocean of national chaos. I honestly feel for the Labour Party as it has little or no idea in many respects as to what it's letting itself in for until it's taken over the ship, so to speak. Can the damage be patched up, and if so, for how long? Using another well-worn analogy, no matter how many plasters one may apply to broken legs, once the damage is seen to be beyond repair all that's left is amputation, and Britain without a leg to stand on. Literally.
Of course, I may be a tad overreactive, though I very much doubt it as things currently stand, and I won't hold my breath for anything to change other than for a totally different Britain of the future. It certainly won't be like anything we've seen before, or ever expected. Times are radically changing. Yes, radically, as it isn't just party politics that has divided us more than ever before, in my lifetime, at least. Now it's widened its scope into religious division too. It's become hatred of Muslims, hatred of Jews, and hatred of anyone who supports either. It's become about marches, protests, placards and banners, flags, emblems and symbols. Worst of all, it's become about violence. Unnecessary violence.
Britain has become an ever-revolving kaleidoscope of fractals. Each one denoting an aspect of modern society we are no longer satisfied with. From health and social care to housing, to police and armed forces, and perhaps the biggest and most glaring but not the prettiest of all, migration. While we shouldn't be quick to dismiss the benefits of which there are a great many in terms of our retail and hospitality sectors alone. After all, wasn't it the Blair government who, with open arms, encouraged people to come to Britain for work and study? Of course, it was. The same Tony Blair who also stated that "those who stay illegally are removed, but that we never use these issues as a political weapon, an instrument of division and discord". He went on to say, "So we've legislated to make it an offence to enter the UK without a valid passport, without a reasonable excuse".
In that very same speech made on Friday, April 22nd 2005 In Dover, the then Prime Minister spoke about controls that will include the "type of points system used in Australia". So, here we are nineteen years later, and what has changed since then? Absolutely nothing, except thousands more migrants pouring into the country illegally (without passport, or visa) and absolutely no controls whatsoever, in any respect. Except for a whimsical, if not absurd idea about paying migrants to move to Rwanda by the present incumbents, and the now opposition party being no further forward than they were almost two decades ago. Meanwhile, this whole sorry scenario has cost the British taxpayer billions to the overall detriment of our national infrastructure, and why we are now in the situation we find ourselves in financially. From first world country to pretty much third world in nineteen feckless years.
You know, I can see the appeal of Reform on the political front now, even though I am not a supporter. Something has to break the migration deadlock, and while both Labour and the Conservatives don't seem in any way capable of doing so, Reform does seem to be addressing the issues a great many people have, and it's not even a political party - just a company limited by guarantee. So, yet again, this says a lot about the way in which our political system is changing, and the country in part when I previously referred to our future becoming totally different. Remember, if a limited company such as Reform can enter the political arena, anything is possible - and it's the historically continual ping-pong between the Conservatives and Labour that's opened the door to make it so.
Meanwhile, as migration worsens, property developers and hotel groups are making millions from it, and we remain the tax-paying dopes coughing up for it, this country appears to be one big red carpet from the Kent coast to all parts of the United Kingdom for walking over by anyone brave, or even stupid enough to risk their life crossing the Channel, and in doing so gain unlawful entry to our nations. So, fundamentally I am echoing, although in not so many words, those of both the Tories and Labour. I just wish one of them, and I don't much care which one just gets on with sorting this fiasco out, finally. Even though it's never likely to happen.
Meanwhile, murderers, rapists, sex traffickers, drug barons, paedophiles, hate preachers and extremists from all across what's predominantly the Middle Eastern and African nations live within our communities and remain invisible to the authorities until such time as they put a foot wrong and are caught, detained, and eventually deported when it's all too late, and because with nineteen years of political inertia we, as a country have allowed this to happen by believing in politicians who have consistently failed us.
When you frame it rationally it isn't rocket science. As you look across Europe you can see for yourself just how much migration is becoming a major issue that's culminated in riots and violence by migrants, and largely because they seek to impose the very cultures and restrictions they've escaped from on the countries they've chosen to reside in. Even here in Britain, there's no avoiding it, as I've already spoken about in previous blog posts. It seems as if somehow we are stuck in the doldrums of not really knowing how to approach, let alone cohesively manage a multicultural society because whichever way we turn will create further problems somewhere down the line. To simplify describing it is in itself a challenge, but I'll give it a go.
Imagine a tug-of-war scenario, where one side is pulling against the other, and now further imagine an entire circle of people doing exactly the same, with each side tugging away, and all co-joined by a steel ring in the middle of the circle that the end of each piece of rope is attached to - rather like a bicycle wheel. Does that make sense? If it does then firstly, well done for successfully interpreting my pitiful attempt at trying to explain what I've built a rubbish picture of, and secondly, for recognising that the central steel ring analogy is Britishness, and the pieces of rope denoting all the different nationalities, beliefs, religions, genders, and Uncle Tom Cobley and all present in the UK, and all wanting recognition of one form, or another.
By now, the geniuses among you will have worked out that I'm thinking this through as I type as I'm not the brightest of people at the best of times. So, for the sake of my sanity, and quite possibly yours too, I will pause here, work it through like the constipated mathematician did with the pencil and continue this in my next blog post which by subscribing to you'll be notified immediately of its presence using the button below.