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This article by Professor Prem Sikka is worth a quick read for a neat resume of where we're at in Grim Britain. There's a wealth of links worth following up... too many for one sitting. This link and all the others on this page will open in a new tab/window.

https://leftfootforward.org/2023/12/prem-sikka-how-the-data-protection-and-digital-information-bill-is-the-governments-latest-erosion-of-hard-won-rights/

This quote infuriated me particularly . . .

. . . because the previous article I was reading was this one:

 

 

The likely unemployment arising from this decision will bring even more people under the scrutiny of the Welfare Espionage Complex that the Prem Sikka article lays out so capably.

 

I never thought HS2 was a good idea: there was no real business case, it was environmentally disastrous, just another money laundering scheme for the same handful of engineering firms. Even so, 1500+ people tossed out of work, and the knock-on effects in a town that is already on its uppers, is a vicious and deliberate kick in the teeth.

 

One of the reasons why Russia is wiping the floor with quasi-NATO forces is that in the RF they actually make stuff, invest in engineering, there's actual factories. But the neoCons (and that includes the cowardly Abstainer Party led by Queef Starver)...?

 

 

Part of me asks: when will it dawn on these fucking people that destroying the economic base means the whole superstructure resting upon it collapses? But then I remember: they know it all too well, they do not care, this is the whole idea.

. . . Build Back Better, yah.

 

Get more and more people dependent on State handouts, surveilled for thoughtcrimes 24/7, waiting for the one bus an hour to ferry us off to buy shitty nutrition-free food in some second-rate supermarket. The 10% run us over in the car park in their Teslas. The 1% quaff their port and the 1% of the 1% order in battalions of mercenary thugs (ex-Ukrainian army no doubt, a lot of them) to deal with anyone who dares to rebel.

 

In William Gibson's latest trilogy (the third is still being written) a confluence of events cause The Jackpot. Hyperinflation, disease, depopulation, war, devastation, and much more (... I'm not quite finished the first book so many revelations are not yet known). In post-Jackpot London, Oxford Street is a 'greenway': fake plastic trees and devices shaped to look like butterflies. There are hardly any people, even the servant class are androids.

 

Remember this Boris Johnson piss-take? 

 

Gibson's choice of name for this apocalypse is deeply ironic but probably very accurate. We really do seem to be headed for a jackpot for the upper-class survivors (the 'klepts'). For the rest of us . . . it's the boot on the neck until extinction.