Disengagement

There is a forerunner to Twitter - Letters to the Editor. Resorting to Twitter is a bit easier than writing a letter or sending a considered email and it's not subject to filtering for reason or grammar, which is why there's so much background noise that's nothing more than digital graffiti. 

Open anything to all and sundry in a democratic manner and it exposes a weakness in unfettered democracy - an abdication of responsibility, like the Brexiteers who simply aren't sufficiently engaged with reality to the extent that they are still calling for the Northern Ireland Protocol to be abandoned and WTO to be implemented. They won't be happy till they have wrung every bit of greatness from Great Britain in pursuit of ideology at the expense of sense. 7% of the public, according to a recent poll, still believe Brexit has gone better than expected.

I simply can't understand why the majority of Tory MPs are vehemently against tougher Covid rules in the New Year, if circumstances warrant it, to prevent the NHS becoming overwhelmed. Are they actively seeking the demise of the NHS prior to a sell-off? Actually, I've answered my own question - that can be the only answer.

While talking of Covid, we've even go people who, because they haven't had Covid themselves, believe it's all a scam to control us and therefore no-one has died of Covid. They're like the people who, because they haven't been asked to contribute to a poll, believe all polls are useless.

The Tories are very keen on liberty in respect of Covid, but when it comes to other areas, such as the right to protest or rigging the electoral system in their favour, they love nothing better than to restrict freedoms. They are to be congratulated, however, in handing the Opposition the best election slogan ever; "One rule for them and another for everyone else." That's the genius of incompetence.

Then there's the 'you can't say anything anymore' brigade of Culture War warriors, who aren't prevented from saying what they want at all, as evidenced by social media and GB News, and are actually fighting for the right to voice their views without dissent in any form. They are not arguing for free speech, they are arguing that you should not have the right to challenge it by using your own right of free speech, plus a healthy dose of reason and evidence.

I must really complement Nigel Farage, however, and his war on the RNLI for, of all things, saving lives at sea. This man has single-handedly increased RNLI donations by 3,000%. What an accidental hero!

2022 is going to be an interesting year for those with their ears to the political ground.