2024 thoughts and prospects
I was recently contacted by Critical Mass, asking for my opinions about a few things. They’re contacting all their readers, I’m not special. I wrote a reply to their questions, so here it is:
- What would you say have been the political highlights of the past year?
- And what, in your opinion, have been the low lights?
And, looking ahead:
- What, if anything, gives you hope for 2025?
- And what fears do you have?
The highlight for me was finally seeing the back of the tories, but not for the reasons you might think. The terms left and right originally come from seating arrangements in the French parliament centuries ago. The thing everyone forgets is both groups were still in the same building and ultimately part of the same ruling class, the discussion was about how to rule, not whether they should be ruling in the first place. The obvious fact that, if anything, the tories’ replacement is worse brings the whole concept of left and right into sharp focus. We are being sold en masse to Blackrock because they put 50p in the meter so Labour could run its campaign, US healthcare “providers” (i.e. denyers — see the recent assassination) are circling what remains of the NHS in full capitalist vulture mode and Streeting is actively participating in its destruction, simpering his way…
