Next will be the British Rail sandwiches, which such defenders as there are of rail privatisation think is a killer blow. They also think that you have to have an adult memory of the 1970s, putting you in your early sixties as a bare minimum, to remember British Rail. You do not, and in any case most people who do, are in favour of renationalisation.
Yet paint it in any livery you like, but the rolling stock of Great British Railways is to remain in private hands, adding exorbitant rent to every ticket. Rent to whom? See also the private contractors that routinely bring defendants to court late or not at all, a major contributor to the backlog, which is not in any way caused by juries.
And see also the £10.9 billion in Covid-19 fraud even without considering PPE. Why have Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman not been arrested? I do not agree with Unexplained Wealth Orders without a conviction, but they are the law, so where are the Orders against that pair? Mone and Barrowman are the characters that our present economic arrangements form as a feature and not as a bug.
Another such is Richard Dannatt, who has secured all past, present and future criminal charges against Palestine Action in return for payment by Teledyne, which is not even a British company. Jurors and magistrates should acquit on principle. All other members of the House of Lords should go on strike if its threshold were ever again crossed by Mone, or by Dannatt, or by Peter Mandelson.
Tony Blair's ties to Mandelson and thus to Jeffrey Epstein would have put an end to his scheme to be made Viceroy of Gaza even if he had not been unacceptable to Hamas and to the regimes of the wider Arab and Islamic world. If they will not have him, then why should we have his Institute's digital ID or his family's facial recognition, grifts to make anything arising out of the last pandemic look like cheating at tiddlywinks, with the cost including our liberty itself?
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