What have we done to ourselves?
Putin is pulverising the Ukraine like a butcher with a piece of bloody meat, Boris gets a £100 fine over lying, lying, lying for his party piece.
Pinch-faced Macron accused in 2bn state scandal, Kim Jong-un bombs a golf resort.
And bumbling stumbling Biden gets sh*t on by a pigeon.
Oh, what a world we live in…
But our politicians have all done very well for themselves:
Putin has blasted his way to an estimated – £70bn
Boris. he may be posh but he’s ‘poor’ – £1.5m
Macron, is French toast as far as dosh is concerned – £800,000
Kim Jong-un, has a hair-raising £5bn
Joe Biden, a fluffy forget-me-not £9m
Zelensky, is apparently worth an amazing £500m
These are the people who run our lives. And, on the whole, we chose most of them and call it democracy.
We went out one cold dark night, scraped our inarticulate cross on a ballot form, stuck it in a wooden slit and the very next morning a big, bleary-eyed, bumptious, pot-bellied buffoon called Boris welcomed himself to our world with a big floppy-haired grin. And led us down so many quintessentially garden paths we ended up with hey fever?
“Hey? What’s he made up now?”
Well, he didn’t make it up that in everything but name alone, we are at war in a place we once called home. We are being threatened with nuclear bombs by a man who is allowing the murder, maiming, rape and vaporisation of civilians.
But Boris did try to paint a better picture of a Brexit future … and here we already are:
UK workers suffered the biggest fall in their real pay for nearly nine years as the cost of living crisis began to hit households.
The ONS said regular pay excluding bonuses tumbled 1.8 percent in the three months to February when taking soaring inflation into account – the biggest fall since August to October 2013.
Yep, inflation is now at the highest rate since March 1992.
And now we are just being told to get on with it all – oh yes, and we might as well live with Covid too!
Oh what a world we live in …
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THERE IS THE WAR
Gen Richard Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff in the UK says the situation in Ukraine is looking like genocide.
There is no doubt reviled Putin has the chemical formula to bring the world, finally, to the brink. And he sneers at the dead already in the streets when he says he’s not afraid to use it.
This is a madness beyond the original decision of our leaders and our warmongers to make them in the first place.
Among the chemicals is one that burn through your flesh at 2700c. A chemical that was mixed and grown in a lab and sold to us as a protector of peace and people.
Oh, what a world we live in…
So, is ‘partygate’ a spin? A distraction from what actually matters in the world?
News from Ukraine has been so bad that we citizens of ‘peaceful and patrol’ Britain are said to be showing signs of ‘war fatigue’.
War dead or celebrity ‘naughty’. Well, in some was we chose celebrity ‘naughty’.
Sausage rolls, ‘chocolate mini bites’, a cake and a can of lager. But it’s the wrong obsession, so many say.
But I say no: Boris and so many of his people cocked a snook at us, told us not to party but had their own. The arrogance, ignorance and pomposity does us or them no service at all.
Brexit, covid, monetary crisis and a potential third world war, all of these have made us focus on our politicians and those of others in a way not done since the last world war.
And what do we see?
Boris’s ‘magical thinking’ if you are looking from the clod-hopping climes of the UK – two contradictory things at once. Often it comes down to saying one thing and doing the exact opposite.
And he was fired from his first job, at the Times, for making quotes up, he was fired from the Tory frontbench for making things up too.
And even Ukraine’s president himself, a diminutive actor, comedian and hero, who appears to have laughed his way to the bank to deposit his estimated half a billion, is accused of lying.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Volodymyr Zelensky lies when he announces that he is ready to discuss the neutral status of the country.
Kim Jung-un is accused of trying to deceive the world about the type of missile it fired recently… why lie about potential wipe-out. Nobody would be around to know afterwards Kim!
And then our favourite doddery ol’ Biden … he invents stuff in order to make a connection with his audience, but is it real?
He told a crowd of “having had a house burn down with my wife in it — she got out safely, God willing.” In fact, the Associated Press says, it was a minor kitchen fire.
Mr Biden still talks about meeting an Amtrak conductor in his seventh year as vice president, when the man had been retired 15 years and had died by the year of the claim.
And then there is Putin.
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