Kakistocracy XLIV:Asylum Shopping In The Unicorn Kingdom.

I'm not writing as many of these Kakistocracy blogs as I used to. The government just isn't as 'funny' these days as it was when Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were in charge. It is, however, still just as corrupt, it's just as cruel, and it is, of course, still unbelievably shit. 

They can blame whoever they want - and they do. They can blame the railway workers, they can blame the wokerati, they can blame the blob, they can blame lefty lawyers, they can blame the EU, they can blame Gary Lineker, they can blame it on the boogie if they fucking want but one thing hasn't changed. The one group of people they won't blame for the fucked up state of the country is the people that actually fucked up, and continue to fuck up, the country. Themselves. The Tory party. The government.

Since I last wrote we've witnessed the shitshow carry on regardless. Andrew Bridgen, the permanently enraged puce gammon of North West Leicestershire, has had to leave the party after comparing Covid vaccines to the holocaust (sorry, you've lost me there you fucking nutcase), several Tories have accused migrants of 'asylum shopping', and Rishi Sunak - the criminal prime minister - has declared that the United Kingdom is actually the Unicorn Kingdom.

What kind of shit is this? Apparently, the Unicorn Kingdom is place that fuels its growth through a unique combination of talent, regulation, and expansion. Those things aren't unique. Every country has those things. It's a load of flag shagging bullshit from a party so out of ideas one of their key campaigns at the momemt is about the inheritance tax. A tax that pretty much only billionaire Tories have to pay.

In reality, the cost of living (for which read the distribution of wealth) crisis deepens. Rishi Sunak says beer has never been cheaper - even though in London some pubs will charge you £7 a pint and even megacheap Wetherspoons barns (like the horrific Angel in Islington - a pub so grim I nearly vomited once just walking in there) are closing their doors. Meals out cost an arm and a leg, bills are through the roof, and even ketchup seems to cost about double what it did a year ago.

The money's going somewhere and it's into the pockets of energy bosses and Tory donors. It'd be interesting to see a Venn diagram of those two groups. I suspect it would bulge in the middle. In the midst of all this the Home Secretary, the ACTUAL Home Secretary, Suella Braverman gets behind a slogan for a movement called National Conservatism.

National Conservatism! It's never promising when the word National goes in front of a political moment as even the most dimwitted scholars of history must surely be aware. The National Socialists, the National Front, and now National Conservatism. I wipe my arse on your beloved flag.

Braverman went on to attack the immigration policies that she, and her party, put in place but that's not actually out of character for this Putinesque (in that they imagine we'll become so bored of their lies we'll stop caring) rabble. The government set up a Covid enquiry (most countries did this ages ago, most countries Covid enquiries are done and dusted) and then refused to hand over their WhatsApp messages (I seem to recall, not so long ago, Priti Patel insisting WhatsApp messages should be available to all if requested) deeming them to be irrelevant.

That's not how enquiries and investigations work. The people being investigated don't decide what's relevant or not. If you get arrested by the police and they ask you where you were on a certain evening you can't just say that's not relevant. You'll get a smack in the face.

Now the government are threatening to sue the people investigating them despite the fact they actually set them up specifically to investigate them. There couldn't be a clearer example of how the government constantly create new enemies, new straw men, so that they don't come under serious scrutiny themselves.

If you find yourself railing against striking nurses, against striking railway workers, against the EU, against the wokerati (whatever that even is), against the blob, or against Gary Lineker you're shilling for an utterly corrupt and bankrupt government. There's no sadness in watching this government die on its ass. The only sadness is they're taking the country down with them.

The madness continues.