As the year ends and a new decade dawns, I have been trying to think of what I am looking forward to next year. Sadly I have been able to come up with very little.
Most of my thoughts are drawn to the end of January and the inventible clusterfuck that Brexit and the subsequent negotiations will be. I am convinced that we will leave without any kind of deal or a deal that is good for those that are already substantially well off. I still find it hard to believe that the idiots that voted for this are the people that leaving the EU is going to affect most. I stand by calling them idiots because I have yet to meet any that actually voted for it, this of course may be a geographic anomaly. The irony of the facist party campaigning that we are better off going on our own after campaigning that we are “Better Together” when Scotland was voting in the referendum for independence just rubs salt in the wound. I can’t even start about the lies that were told during the campaigning.
I literally stopped watching or reading the news after there were calls for the country to “come together” now that Brexit was done. It makes me sad and angry that anyone in power (including the ridiculousness of the royal family) think that the country is going to come together. With any luck it will rip the union apart and we can get Donald Trump to tell us what walls are best for the border between Scotland and England. Not to mention the fact that Northern Ireland looks like it is still going to be in a customs union with the EU makes the whole union a fucking joke.
I have also had to take a break from social media because I just can’t read anymore vile bile that is getting poured out. I suddenly found myself wondering how something that I have found so useful in the past could become so putrid (perhaps I am just following the wrong people).
The fact that it was categorically proven that Cambridge Analytica sold data that influenced the Brexit referendum is an absolute travesty (check out the Netflix film ‘The Great Hack’ for more info on this).. Yet, those that could do something about it have done nothing as it suited their purposes. Influencing an election like this should have triggered a void result. But of course the Brexit referendum was just a trial run for using the same tactics in the subsequent US election, which gave the world Donald Trump as the United States president.
Now we have a baboon for a Prime Minister and an impeached US President. Two misogynistic, racist, homophobic hate inciters. Sterling work!
From Business Live