Lockdown News: Part X...

The thing to take home from the Sunday press briefing, in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, is this: they are in power and they do not give a flying fuck about you, your concerns or the sacrifices you have made to combat Covid-19. Protecting his mate is more important than anything you have done. Fact.

The thing to take home from the Monday press briefing, in which a non-elected government advisor was given a huge amount of air time on the BBC to defend his position with one preposterous lie after another, is this: he is an unelected official who holds power and he does not give a flying fuck about you, your concerns or the sacrifices you have made to combat Covid-19. He also thinks it's safe to drive a car containing his wife and child when he has eyesight issues.

The thing to take home from the glut of Cabinet Ministers and Tory MPs who rushed out cut and paste Tweets in defence of Cummings is this: they are in power and they do not give a flying fuck about you, your concerns or the sacrifices you have made to combat Covid-19. They will do anything to cling to power.

Do you see a pattern emerging here? The entire nation has just been gaslit. They may as well have taken everyone in the UK who's followed the rules, put them in a line, then taken turns to spit in their faces. And laugh while doing it. 

Then mocked: 'If you observed the rules of lockdown, then you're a mug because you clearly didn't understand the instructions well enough. You mugs. You massive bunch of mugs. You massive bunch of thick fucking mugs. Dominic understood. But you didn't. You mugs. We are mugging you the fuck off. Mugs. Fuck off back to poor land. Mug fucks.'

I don't know about you, but I don't feel very good about that. And I don't think I'm actually exaggerating the general strength of feeling about this either.