The opening scenes of "The Downfall" the German produced dramatisation of the last ten days of Hitler's regime are an interview with an elderly Traudl Junge, Hitler's personal secretary. In the interview she says that she feels that she should feel anger at her younger self "for not realising the horrors, the monster, before it was too late, for not realising what she was getting into". This seems to me to be an apt metaphor for the American electorate with respect to the 45 and the British with respect to Brexit and this monstrous Tory government. However, I am gratified to see that an increasing number of American commentators are now calling a spade a spade and admitting that the 45 is quite insane. I watched Krishnan Guru Murthy on Channel Four news interviewing an American writer who (to my shame, I never caught his name) proceeded to liken America to 1930's Germany. Guru Murthy asked him if he was likening the 45 to Hitler and he answered simply, yes. He was then asked if he was indeed likening Vladimir Putin and the 45 to Stalin and Hitler and he again replied yes. Guru Murthy then said that both Stalin and Hitler were monsters so was he saying that Putin and the 45 were monsters and he again replied yes. I watched an MSNBC reporter asking when people were going to start telling it as it is and admit that the 45 was mad? Are we going to wait until he drops a nuclear bomb on someone he asked? CNN then reported several other American media outlets all saying similar things. The world is catching up with the Kommirat as I told you this over a year ago.
We in Britain cannot sit back at ease and look smugly at the American situation however. Our Prime Minister is not mad, but she is extremely thick and quite stupid and compounds this situation by being totally incompetent. What is most alarming though is her complete indifference to the chaos she and her government are causing by their incompetence. The entire Board of Management of the Social Mobility Commission resigned today as they told us that there was no longer any point to their work as the government completely ignored them. This Board comprised Labour and Tory politicians and academics. They said that it was not just the poorest in Britain who were losing out as whole communities and parts of Britain are being left behind economically and hollowed out socially. The entire progress, or lack of it, over Brexit shows graphically that no-one in government even begins to comprehend reality. They are so enveloped in their own class obsessed bubble, their public school, Oxbridge ethos, that they simply refuse to accept any form of alternative to their own narrative. The public are not much better. My heart sank this week with the announcement of another royal engagement. We were drowned with an endless parade of what Lenin described as useful idiots, drooling over how wonderful this was and telling us what wonderful people the royals and all their sycophantic hangers-on are. This means that, for the next couple of years all the British will be bothered about is a forthcoming royal wedding that will cost us a fortune and that will be used to cover up all the political horrors of Brexit and this government's crimes. At least the Americans are spared this dysfuntional soap opera of privileged parasites that are utilised for the consolidation of the British elite and to justify their wealth and privilege, allowing them to continue to loot the national treasury at their leisure.
The monstrous cruelty of this government was shown by the revelations that, when applying for the welfare benefit known as Universal Credit, people with terminal illnesses are required to attend sessions with a work coach. The role of a work coach is “to support claimants into work by challenging, motivating, providing personalised advice and using knowledge of local labour markets.” Now remember this is a requirement for the terminally ill. Failure to comply with this means you get no benefit, and our news is full of stories about terminally ill people dying before they are informed whether they will get benefit or not. This is about as callous and inhuman as you can get. This is Tory government policy. But we should not get too angry because we have a royal wedding to look forward to, which is more than most terminally ill people will be able to look forward to. This is the state of modern Britain, this is life under the Tories.
As with the 45, the British agenda is beginning to fall apart. The Tories are being forced to make concession after concession on Brexit to meet their responsibilities and as they are forced into the real world. As they continue to insult the Europeans they meet with ever stiffer resistance, just as the 45 is facing with his continuous attacks on the FBI and the media. Both Republicans and the Tories really think they have a right to rule however they please and to insult and attack those who disagree with them and call them to account. The constitution, rules, law, decency and good manners are for other people, the lower orders. But the one thing the Americans do have is an effective media who refuse to be cowed and bullied, unlike the craven lickspittles we have in the UK. The next year will be crucial in both our nations and will have a very powerful impact on the future of our respective political systems (I was going to call them democracies and realised how stupid that was). The Kommirat will be watching with interest. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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