Britain is currently going through one of its worst national economic crises ever, just after the supposedly empowering move of Brexit.
In amongst soundbites on freedom from the tyranny of the EU and a magical NHS (represented by a magic all bus) the slogan that reportedly clinched Brexit was as we all by now know “take back control”,
Clearly that has failed, and the majority of the British people have no control at all over their present let alone their future. Matters have become worse after Brexit and the country is now at the mercy of greedy energy companies and other corporate controlled entities. Inflation is more than 10%, salaries static or shrinking, and the task of staying alive now a choice between “heating and eating”, with options for healthcare ranging from pulling your own teeth out and dying, whilst waiting for treatment by an underfunded and poorly run NHS, if you are lucky.
The ordinary citizen will likely be thrown some humiliating handouts by the new Prime Minister Liz Truss, but no major change will take place to either bring to account the people who have created this mess (Russia’s war on Ukraine is not causal but contributing), or make the necessary changes to ensure it never happens again.
Those necessary changes consist in nationalising all the basic, life-sustaining assets of the country: the energy and water utilities, public transport, and healthcare.
Notwithstanding the shameful mendacity of the Brexit slogan thought up by Dominic Cummings and his understudy Boris Johnson (or The Convict, as the exquisite though utterly terrifying John Crace calls the former Prime Minister), it is precisely what the people need to do: take back control. Take back control of the basic assets of this country and no longer allow yourselves to be lied to and robbed whilst waiting for a handout.