Living through History – but what have we learned

When I was driving this afternoon, the roads were really busy, and it got me thinking. What a difference five years makes. We have lived through Covid-19, the UK handled it as badly as any one did, there have been over 23 million cases in the United Kingdom, 207,528 people have sadly died from Covid-19 in the UK. There are still over 6,000 people in hospital with Covid-19 today, with on average over 10,000 new infections per day. We lived through three lock downs, as well as, seeing our civil liberties constrained like never before. More than 30,000 people were fined for breaching Covid-19 rules. I myself have had Covid three times, the first time was horrible to say the least, the second time as a result of the vaccination, and the third time from my daughter. It’s not nice as millions of people have experienced, at least the second and third infections weren’t as bad as the first.

It is all a bit weird; we are all going about again like nothing happened in so many ways. Of course, that also does not take away from those suffering from long Covid which is just horrible. We also cannot forget the fraud by the Government in awarding contracts worth billions and billions of pounds to their friends, on apps that did not work, on PPE that was not fit for purpose or was never delivered in the first place. We should never forget party gate, the name demeans the severity of what Boris Johnson, and his staff did in breaching the laws that they imposed on the rest of us and the fact that some of them found it funny. Covid is still a real thing, a dangerous thing, yet we have moved on and we get on with things.

31st January 2020 the United Kingdom left the European Union – Irrespective of how we voted individually it is fair to say that the UK have both made a huge mistake, as well as, a huge arse of it. In just under 3 years Brexit has cost the UK around 66 to a high estimate of 200 billion Pounds, all based on lies, on exceptionalism, on frustration with the UK establishment where many decided they had nothing much more to lose so would give Westminster a kicking, we can’t forget that for many others it was about immigration and the colour of people’s skin. Brexit in many ways has released an English Nationalism that is in the main disgusting, but it has also allowed many to find their English Nationalism and that in the longer term might be a good thing if it brings about real political change like Scottish independence. We need to also never forget the role the media played in the whole debate, lies that were on a par with the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014 and yet we still have the most right wing, corrupt, and unregulated media in the world.

It’s not just the economic cost of Brexit that is hurting the UK, it is the continued effect the lies have had on our politics for many, the result being the most corrupt, right wing, useless Government in our history since 1707 and that really does take some doing. Brexit unleashed the nasty side of many, not just in England, but in the rest of the UK also but maybe to a lesser extent. It has also shown us that being part of a democratic union can have its benefits unlike the one that we are in right now. All that Brexit has done is open the door to the ghouls that fund and support the scumbag Tory Party, we removed vital protections that the EU provided us with and that is a mistake that we are going to regret more in the years to come, that should also include cowardice of the Labour Party and the inaction of the SNP.

8th September 2022 Elizabeth Windsor passed away – The death of Elizabeth Windsor yet again showed the world the undemocratic and sycophantic nature of the UK in all of its deluded colonial glory. We had 14 days of enforced grieving where it was implied that not to grieve somehow made you a bad person. We saw first-hand that we do not live in a democracy where we are all supposed to be equal, even in theory, what we learned was that we are subjects, not citizens. We saw the very worst of the BBC, it reached depths that I never thought was at all possible as they embarked upon a Windsor propaganda 14 days that history should judge harshly. We saw some genuine grief in England, and a lot of forced grief. We saw an England where many are subservient and couldn’t see it for what it was while our politicians, especially Scottish ones, in my opinion, shamed us with subservient displays that flew in the face of what we are supposed to stand for. They took respect to the level of servitude, they didn’t stand as equals, they demonstrated that a family due to an accident of birth are somehow better than we are, they are wrong and I for one will never forget that. Sturgeon and Blackford, while correctly being respectful, needed to show more dignity, they didn’t.

Three imposed Prime Ministers – The scumbag Tory Party saw fit to impose three Tory Prime Ministers on us in 2016, 2019, and 2022. While May and Johnson went on to win general elections the bar keeps getting lower and lower while our so-called democracy becomes more corrupt every day. We have seen the incompetence of Brexit with May, the lies of Johnson with Covid, while Truss managed to crash the economy by herself in a month while also becoming the most unpopular Prime Minister of the United Kingdom within two weeks, yet we are expected to accept this as somehow normal. None of these nightmares have been elected by voters in Scotland, in fact the scumbag party haven’t won an election in Scotland since 1955.

Abject failure and carrots galore – The Scottish National Party under Nicola Sturgeon has become the British Scottish National Party. The SNP have won four elections since 2016 with an explicit manifesto commitment to hold a second independence referendum and have failed to move us one inch closer to that goal. Twice (in 2017 and 2019) a majority of all MSPs at Holyrood have voted to back a second independence referendum yet no groundwork has really been done as Sturgeon has embarked on her gender agenda, the destruction of the reputation of Alex Salmond, poor governance in virtually every important area of our colony, a Covid record as poor as Johnsons, and the appearance of the corruption of our once world-renowned legal system. This is maybe the greatest betrayal for many of us who actually do want to see Scotland return to being a democratic independent nation in its own right.

What have we learned? For many of us we have learned nothing that we didn’t already know. We have learned that Scots are capable of taking unbelievable amounts of shit that would break the back of an elephant. We have learned that the English Government in Westminster no longer hide their contempt and disrespect for Scotland, it’s on display every time the shit hole of all parliaments sits in the English capital to impose what is supposed to be a democracy on us but for all sense and purpose just conforms our colonial status.

We have learned that the Tories have no shame in levels of corruption that would make the mafia proud and don’t even try to hide it anymore. We saw in the death of Elizabeth Windsor that while Scotland is just a colony, we are all just servants to our betters, supported by every aspect of the state to keep us down while they were happy for thousands to die in a pandemic that they used to enrich themselves and demonstrate that there is one law for them and one law for us.

We also learned that the politicians that we trusted in the SNP to lead us to the possibility of a better future have their noses in the British trough as much as any unionist politician does. Their betrayal being the greatest insult, the hardest slap in the face, they are no better than those who sold us out in 1707 and in Nicola Sturgeon a charlatan of the worst kind. The fact that we are living through the most corrupt and inept UK Government in its history and yet independence still sits at 47% in the polls should tell us a lot –

It tells us we have learned NOTHING.