This article (sadly behind a paywall) (Fixed – Day Admin). sums up pretty well the fucked up state this country is now in. The gist of it is that too many of us think we live in a rich country which entitles us to a life of wealth and leisure. This delusion was encouraged during lockdown when millions were paid to do sod all. So now we have many people of working age who have given up work, 50-somethings retiring early, 20- and 30-somethings living with parents and splurging on luxury designer goods and electronic gadgetry, and public sector workers striking for double digit pay rises. Then there’s ‘flexible working’, with some cunts now expecting a bribe to turn up to the office one day a week rather than sitting in front of a computer screen whilst still in bed.
All well and good if the country was doing well. But it’s not. Per capita GDP is about to fall below that of Mississippi, the USA’s poorest state. In 15 years it will be below that of Poland. We have one of the biggest trade deficits in the world, a government that spends way beyond what it collects in taxes on vanity projects like HS2, foreign aid, housing illegal immigrants and the bottomless money pit that is the NHS. The national debt is now 100% of GDP, and that excludes the off-balance sheet debt created by Gordon-is-a-moron Brown to hide it’s scale.
Yet the politicians and media allow the delusion that the country can continue to live beyond its means persist ad infinitum. Happily those of us of a certain age have seen this all before when chancellor Denis Healey had to go crawling to the IMF for an emergency loan and slash public spending. This led directly to the Winter of Discontent. How long before chickens come home to roost this time I wonder? I’ve no idea, but there will be a day of reckoning, without a doubt.
Popcorn at the ready.
Nominated by: Geordie Twatt



