That shuffling monstrosity Boris Johnson told us today that normal life will be back with us by November. By ‘us’ I mean the English, as Nicola Sturgeon has already reduced new cases of Covid-19 in Scotland to zero (at least for now). But she’s actually been following a plan to wipe it out, rather than the Brextremists’ plan to absolve themselves of all responsibility for managing a pandemic and then blaming the general public when things go wrong. Priti Patel the other day complained the renewed lockdown in Leicester was because ‘racism’ had made it impossible to inspect sweat shops which had been Covid-19’s wildest fantasies come true, but the reality was her government knew all about it, and for years had done nothing at all about the exploitation in them.

The free market economy, which in the last 40 years has turned Britain into a free market society (that thinking doesn’t just stay in the office or boardroom), is through its nature making Covid-19 impossible to stop (at least in England). The divisions such an economy relies on are exploited by the virus, giving a choice to our current politicians – save people or save the system. They’re saving the system. Well that’s great – Britain already has tens of thousands of excess deaths that countries like New Zealand don’t, whilst the care workers who’ve put their lives on the line are being sacrificed to the altar of Brexit, that is those who the virus hasn’t already killed. The Cummings scandal effectively ended social distancing in the UK, we’re told drinking in bars is a ‘patriotic duty’, and sports in stadiums are set to resume in October. That close to a No Deal Brexit, and the likelihood of Covid-19 raging back across the country makes normality in November impossible, and there isn’t mass opposition to this because, at the very least, it’s what we expect. After the Tories imposed the debt caused by bankers in 2008 on the most vulnerable, why would it be any different now?

Johnson’s bumbling act is all underpinning his gambling nature – he’s judged that as long as he can distract and divide long enough, with an almost entirely compliant media, his backers will continue to make the millions they want from public money in plain sight, and he can legislate to make life much easier for them, before they set their sights on other countries to exploit. He knows as well as we do that the coronavirus won’t withdraw just because he says so, instead he wants us to indulge our feelings and drink into oblivion, which is currently set for 1st January 2021, when our food and medicine supplies become a luxury and Kent becomes haulier central. I’ll stay away from it all thanks, and when the first riot finally begins I’ll be paying very close attention.