“Culture alienation boredom and despair”…

CONSUME…

I read somewhere that Neo-Liberalism triumphed in the UK, the day the 1994 Sunday Trading Act came into force. The idea that the long fought for right for workers to have one guaranteed day off a week, was to be thrown to the wolves of consumerism and the rights of Capitalists, must triumph over all others, was the last nail in the coffin of the post-war social contract.

Fast forward 25 years, to 2019 — and fittingly — Friday 13th December 2019, the hopes of all those desperate for an alternative to decades of Neo-Liberalism, privatisation, off shoring of jobs, industries and 10 years of austerity, found themselves staring at an 80 seat Tory majority and a Prime Minister whose only recognisable skills seemed to be:

A: A professional political clown.

B: Useful idiot.

Watched as their dreams for a better future receded over the horizon.

Perhaps the most puzzling recrimination, is that those who really needed the Labour Manifesto to be enacted, seemed to have voted to actively disadvantage themselves by voting Conservative to “Get Brexit” done, which was a PR triumph by Cummings. A beautifully simple, yet vacuous nonsense phrase. Brexit is still not done, and no-one knows what shape it will take but we probably know ultimately who it…