I checked the betting this morning and the odds on the EU referendum are still 1/3 on Britain voting to remain and 9/4 to leave. This translates into a 71% odds of Britain voting to remain a member (I am still wrestling with my grammar there, but will leave it as it is). As I am a mathematical imbecile, I confess to you that I got that piece of information from Ladbrokes. Significantly, the odds on Scotland voting to stay have gone from 1/12 as I told you recently to 1/20, further proof of how much more intelligent and civilised the Scots are compared to the rest of this increasingly fascistic nation.
I am continually puzzled and irritated by the constant stream of people on television who say that they do not know how to vote because they don't have enough information. We have been in the EU for 40 years for goodness sake and it is never out of the press and media. I suspect they are waiting for someone to tell them what to do to save them the bothersome problem of having to think. For me the situation is quite simple. On one hand, as I said in an earlier post, I simply look at the people who are wanting us to leave and shudder to think what this poor country would be like under such appalling personnel. Any sane discussion of politics even ten years ago would have treated the possibility of having Boris the Spider as Prime Minister at the same time as having Donald Drumpf as President of the USA as not only ridiculous but impossible. That this is now a possibility, however unlikely, tells you all you want to know about the degeneration of both Britain and the USA into a form of collective madness and the completely destructive nature of the neoliberal political and economic ideology that is dominant in both societies. That people can even contemplate such a scenario highlights the loss of reason and common sense in the political and economic narrative.
On the other hand, I point out to people the unending war that they wage against ordinary people and those who are the most damaged in our society and ask them to contemplate the damage they will do when they are in a position to remove all restraints on their activity. For example, yesterday the government lost a vote on measures to extend Sunday trading. To their credit, 27 Tories voted against the government, showing that this vile collection of gangsters are beginning to disgust their own kind. This measure was presented, as they attempt to present everything, as a measure to extend freedom. I think they actually believe that, however, as I continually remind you, freedom is not an infinite resource and one person's freedom will inevitably be gained at the cost of restricting someone else's freedom and that is something that the denizens of the Westminster pigsty simply cannot understand. That is why I tell you that such people may be well schooled, but they are not well educated and don't begin to understand even the basics of politics. If my freedom to shop on a Sunday is extended, then the freedom of the shop worker is restricted, when does the shop worker shop? This of course then affects many other types of workers, because opening a shop for longer is like dropping a stone in water, it causes a ripple effect. But of course when they use the freedom argument, even if they believe it, it is a lie, because that is not their real motivation.
The SNP MPs voted en bloc to stop this measure because, given the inherent Scottish civility and intelligence, they are fully aware that the real motivation behind such a measure is to attack workers incomes. If Sunday is designated a normal working day, then all extra premiums and overtime rates for working Sundays will cease. This of course is the measure at the heart of the doctors dispute as well. Make seven-day working the norm and you will only pay flat rate for all working hours, thus entrenching the exploitation of working people at all levels and making more money available for managerial profits and bonuses. All the talk about freedom, of choice, of flexibility, of when you can exercise your right to shop etc. is simply a lie. Since Thatcher first polluted Downing Street with her odious presence there has been one, and only one, agenda. Every measure taken by the Westminster pigsty is designed to transfer money from the bottom up. Enhance the ability for profit and excessive salaries at the top and depress the income and life chances of those at the bottom. The excessive inequality in this country has gotten so bad it has now even embarrassed Labour, which is a very difficult thing to do, and, under the leadership of the SNP they helped defeat this latest con trick on working people. The Thatcherite project is starting to seriously come apart, remember who has been consistently warning you that this is an inevitability. The end is nigh for the free market and it can't come quick enough. You have been warned.
Postscript - There is still hope for this sorry nation. I am watching Liverpool vs. Man United and the Liverpool fans are flying large flags telling us not to buy the Sun newspaper. My favourite English team and the one I watch as often as I can is Port Vale, but I carefully follow the fortunes of Liverpool as well because they show an enlightenment that is both refreshing and hopeful. In the event of Scotland getting its Independence, I will invite the city of Liverpool to join the great Scottish federation. As I write this they have just gone ahead 1.0
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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