ELECTION DAY

Will the announcement of a general election on the 4th of July be the light at the end of the tunnel or the slide towards the precipice?

 

By Sir Charlattam

The UK election is coming up on the 4th of July and I can't help but hear the lines of a 1980s pop band song that goes ‘Rumors or rivals yell at the strike force, Hi guys, by the way. Are you aware you're being illegal?’ No doubt the kids of that era were not prophets who saw the likes of Johnson, Truss and Sunak as unpresentable, only aesthetically visualising the ever-present corruption of the British establishment.

As in Greater Washington DC, it is only two players who monopolise the electoral supply side ensuring that, broadly speaking, the electoral business that maintains the system will remain intact. Ed Davey's Liberal Democrats like Calum Miller are as ambiguous as their progressive positions so they alone do not count and will be forced to negotiate. After almost 15 years of Conservative rule, it looks like Labour's turn has come to occupy the offices at 10 Downing Street.

For ordinary British citizens it might represent some hope of relief from high taxes, job insecurity and unemployment in a wide area of the economy, especially in agriculture and domestic production. Let us not forget that these are effects of the Conservative foreign policy partners in the US adventure against Russia that involve the provision of arms, advisors and training for the far-right Hooligans in Kiev.

This brings us back to the policies that London has been pursuing in its foreign policy, one of the most damaging and delusional being that of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his BREXIT supporters trying to revive the potential of the old and dead British empire, certainly as dead as Queen Elizabeth.

This idiotic ideology has created a real imprecation for Britain as we have entered a time of uncertainty, which is compounded by the unwitting and costly aid given to the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev and at the same time, turning a blind eye to the genocide being carried out against the Palestinian population in Gaza, which is now having a new bloody chapter in Rafah.

All this has made the government unable to deal with the consequences or as the Americans say ‘collateral damage’ that these policies directly affect the security and economy of the Big Island.

With this in view it is very clear that Rishi Sunak's decision to hold a general election on July 4 is not based on improvements in the socio-economic conditions of the citizenry as some media henchmen like Bronwen Maddox or official officials like James Cleverly or Sir James Cameron himself point out.

On the contrary, the social and economic situation in Britain is neither optimal nor has it improved. Labour knows this and is surely aware that if they win they will take a state of affairs that could explode in their hands. It is also very true that the degree of manoeuvre they will have to address highly important issues such as the war in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East is very limited.

The government has been too long involved in attending to the geopolitical objectives and policies of Washington DC without regard for the issues that matter only to the public and, of course, to Britain itself.

London's participation in those policies has, among other consequences, made it part of and responsible for feeding an ultra-corrupt and fascist regime in Ukraine that swallows taxpayers' money like a sponge. At the same time, we have also been part of the huge displacement of human tides fleeing bombing, genocide and famine deliberately created by some establishment-friendly governments. This has been impacting on employment levels in the population with the growth of immigration that is being boosted by EU policies.

Politicians have certainly lost their way, but not because they are clumsy or ignorant (except in the case of Liz Truss of course). Their ambition is so severe that they seem blind to the grievances and needs of those at the bottom, those who give them legitimacy in office. Never as in these times has the gap between the common interests of popular sentiment and the interests of the elite who do not even understand the crown been so clear.

The Irish, on the other hand, despite their differences, know what they want and after a very bad history with Britain, they have shown that they are consistent with their lineage by being on the side of truth and justice and are moving in that direction.

In Britain, on the other hand, politicians are still the same autistic as ever. While universities have risen up against Israel's atrocities, people in Leicester are hanging Palestinian flags in their windows or, here in central London itself, you can see people gathering to call for a ceasefire and genocide against the Palestinians, or simple personal demonstrations visualising the same as I have seen trucks with the Palestinian flag or legends denouncing the crimes being committed there. To look the other way and do what suits the interests that hope to benefit from this genocide.

The 4th July election should not be an escape hatch from Rishi Sunak's responsibilities, it should be an opportunity for reason and humanity to triumph over the interests of shadowy political and financial interests divorced from the reality of British citizens.