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^Removing the PM will not make everything at No.10 bright and breezy, I can only hope that there is a plan and that it is a workable and sustainable one.^
You're right, GG13 but, as you must know, I, and other posters on this forum, take it further. Removing Johnson makes no difference at all to the direction in which this government is travelling, the direction that most people seem to be resolutely shutting their eyes to. Johnson isn't leading this government at all, he's just fronting it. I don't think there is any successor capable of wrenching the tory party away from the hard right without actually destroying the party. No.10 shenanigans are the very least of the problems.
When the elderly who need care are left in their beds until mid-day, sometimes having soiled themselves, waiting for a carer to help them up; when a harassed and stressed carer gives them 15 minutes to get washed, dressed and stick a meal in the microwave or prepare a hasty sandwich; when they are pitchforked out of hospital without any care package in place and left to their own devices; when more and more services and procedures currently available on the NHS are privatised; when disabled people have their benefits cut again, when the mentally ill find that the scant services available are cut even further; when the rights of working people are diminished and more and more people are forced into the 'gig' economy with long hours and low pay; when he cost of living increases to the point where some people cannot afford to eat properly nor heat their homes - even though they are working every day; when the food banks increase their numbers to match the needs of a growing demographic; when state pension increases don't match the rise in the cost of living; when the pension age rises but employers don't want to employ old people; when there are more homeless on the streets entirely reliant on charity with even fewer options to rehabilitate into society...
... and when you can't protest against these things for fear of being taken to court for making a noise or being considered a nuisance, and the judiciary on whom you rely for a fair hearing are to have their powers investigated and curtailed...
... then you will understand the free-market-economy and small-state. It has already begun, we are on the road towards an elected dictatorship.
George Monbiot - though I'm not over keen on the man - put it succinctly in a tweet not so long ago:
You know all those documentaries you've watched about a dictator's path to power? You know there's always the bit where you think: "Why didn't people do something? They could have stopped him while there was still time"?
THAT'S THE BIT WE'RE AT.
I'm quite sure I'll be slated for this post or be thought of as hysterical / over dramatic. I don't care and won't respond further. I genuinely believe this is the path we are on already - it won't matter if it's Johnson / Gove / Sunak or lady Truss, I think this is where we are heading. As Lord Acton warned in 1888, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.... as a person's power increases, their moral sense diminishes.
