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Sixty Four Ways to Mislead the Country




Recently reported in the media is the work done by legal experts which shows that UK Government has changed the 'rules' and 'guidance' on how to 'behave' with regard to the SARSCOV2 virus in order to avoid the COVID19 disease and 'save the economy' at least 64 times.
 
 "Lockdown rules in England have been changed at least 64 times by the government since the start of the coronavirus pandemic..."

Here's a listing you can read to check the accuracy of this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ne4zhPYAZK8G867D1Iz0Gg2ZJFLGmF2K

Adam Wagner, of Doughty Street Chambers, whose team made this list, has been studying the regulatory response of the Johnson-Cummings-Tufton Street Tory Administration, and he has found that new national regulations, local regulations, regulations on face coverings or rules on travel quarantine have passed into law on average every four-and-a-half days since the first restrictions were introduced in the spring.

Think about that - UK, a leading 'world power' moves the goal posts, the rules, the 'guidance' for it's own population, with regard to a serious viral infection which is transmitted from person to person by aerosol and very fine moisture droplets, every four and a half days. Confusion reigns.


New Zealand, Finland, Vietnam, South Korea and a good few others reveal no such pattern, and they have achieved zero community transmission, with strategic cluster control policies that are effective, protecting both the people and their economies.

Their guidance is clear, unequivocal and their populations trusted them, and their chosen strategy - zero community transmission - worked.

Who trusts this UK Government, today?

Do you? I don't. I haven't trusted the UK Government since Chris Whitty claimed 'behavioural science' as the basis for UK Government policy back in March 2020.

"As a result, the rules have become increasingly cumbersome, with police, lawyers and ministers unable to distinguish between laws and advice. The guidance given to the public often does not reflect the law, Wagner said.

Many rules, including those demanding that people have a reasonable excuse before travelling, are effectively unenforceable." Adam Wagner's words.

We can all see truth of that. 

Mr. Wagner has been analysing the laws for nine months, and he points out that every time ministers release a new set of rules, there is an element of theatre, farce and confused activity within the people  before the legislation is found to be difficult to enforce.

“There was the inadvertent banning of sex between people not in the same household, which led to the creation of linked households, or support bubbles.

“There was the issue of whether scotch eggs were a substantial meal. There has been endless confusion over exercise, which I think has been totally avoidable,” he said.

The coronavirus legislation itself has grown from being a pdf of just 12 pages in the spring, to 72 pages in the autumn, to 108 pages and 50,000 words after the introduction of tier 4 restrictions" Wagner said.

Readers of my blog are familiar with my position on all of this.

I say that this situation is a case of Gross National Domestic Abuse

We are trapped in our homes, because we care and because we are stuck with an historically lunatic, manipulative, harm causing Government whose 80 seat majority means they can dictate what ever they like to the country.

And because we all understand that we have a duty to each other to stop the spread of the virus (stopping the spread is spreading the love) we cannot protest, march etc and so we are caught between a bully administration and the risk of death among our families.

How venal and cowardly are those 'decent' Tory MPs who know this is all wrong, and yet continue to protect that elective dictatorship as their Masters preside over 100,000 and rising avoidable fatalities!

There must be at least 80 of those 'decent' Tory MPs who know what they are doing is wrong, but their desire for power trumps the people's health and safety.

Why are they behaving in this way?

Here's one theory, based on observed attitude, action, behaviour, justifications, excuses and outcomes,- all tainted by repeated misleading narratives and gaslighting. In Public. 

For the NeoLiberal Factions, Zero Covid is Socialism - full state support for the people, without profiteering, based on science led and social material evidence, to protect the people and the people's economy. Thus zerovid strategy is rejected from the get go.

That is their first reaction, a pure knee jerk thing - and their second thought, which implies thinking this through is "How can we game the epidemic to enhance our Power and increase our Wealth Holdings".

My little crony... a lay out of the person to person links, and commercial links between ruling faction and their supporters, and contracts issued to entities with little or no direct public health expertise.... creating a few hundred instant millionaires with cash they need to 'invest'...

No matter what their public face is, irrespective of all denials and statements suggesting otherwise, by politicians, spokes persons and media punditry, the effective social and material reality of UK Ruling Faction policy on managing this epidemic amounts to slow spread towards mythic herd immunity. 

They wish  to protect the hedge fund money tree.

I sit here in impotent fury, unable, since March 23 2020 to make any material difference.

What can I do?


I write songs, and I sing them. I write blogs and I post them. I try to keep myself as  grounded and sane as possible, in safety, whilst millions of others are forced to take incredible risks to keep me safe. There's an ambulance on my street this morning as I write. Someone is suffering - and this odious Government is responsible for that suffering.


64 Ways to Mislead a Country


People are not 'heroes', they are stoic, caring, hard working and they are genuinely committed to the welfare of the whole community, non excluded.

There are hospital staff, teachers, care-workers, bus drivers, tube drivers and builders who have died simply because Johnson's Government refused to adopt a zero community transmission strategy at any stage, and issued confusing and conflicting 'guidance and advice' which muddied the waters.

The Queen has faded in inglorious insignificance, as a moral leader of this nation.

The English Church headed by Welby sits too close to the bankers. 

Starmer plays nasty games within the Labour party, and still attacks the nearly got into government Corbyn movement.

Only the SNP  as a whole and complete Party in Parliament show any degree of genuine, humanistic care.

What are we to do?

So I rewrote "Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover" as "Sixty Four Ways to Mislead the Country."

This is my first draft, as I write today, and I hope it will improve with time as I struggle with the song, and the parsing. 

What I'd like to see is a 100,000 versions flooding the UK Charts ( yes a mad dream that will never materialise because I will never 'produce' in order to 'attract', that's not my style at all) in order to get the message across. Like, as if music was a public voice in the shared commons, speaking to all our true needs,

The Music Industry Fail

I am also profoundly disappointed that the UK Music Industry leading bodies, moguls, billionaires and Stars have never  publicly called for a Zero Community Transmission strategy - even as live gigs and festivals were taking place in those countries that took the ZeroCovid approach, that managed so well to suppress community transmission and put in place systems to deal rapidly and kindly with clusters.

The added odium of  irresponsible people like Van Morbidson and Wreck Claptout issuing a series of anti-mask, conTheory songs is unbearable to a people's songwriter. May they be publicly shamed and censured, and may their entire catalogue be handed over to fund support for low income folk across the UK. ( that's not going to happen, either. I know. I am a dreamer, not the only one...)

I know it won't happen. It's just a thought, an aspiration about the potential for justice.

I am angry and very, very saddened by all of this... 

Here is the first draft.

I will be practicing it, and will probably make a video of it to go with my other songs from this period - 

"Jacinda and The Little Bugs" 

 "Be Alert

 "Bully, Bully, Bully" 

 "We know how to Groom You."  


It will be an interesting album, when it is finished.

If I survive this Johnson Government.

My apologies to Paul Simon, for this wrecking of his song, which is a song about planning a betrayal. I think I have adapted it well, lyrically, at least for these difficult times.

I will avoid 5/4, 13/9 and 21/7....


"The problem  is inside your head," Boris said to me
" the answer is obvious, if you take it illogic'lly.
We will not help folk in this land to be virus free;
sixty four way so to mislead the country ."
 
He said, "you are aware It's not my habit to be true;

we plan our rules to be easily misconstrued.
scapegoat the people who we have deliberately confused;
sixty four ways to to mislead  the country
sixty four changes to to mislead the country ."

Break all the rules, Dom.
Make a new plan, Dan;
Joke about Hake, Jake,
Set yourself Free
Get back to school, fools;
no need to discuss facts;
get back to work, folks  .
Herd Immuniteeeeeee....."

REPEAT CHORUS

Second verse:
He said, "It *thrills me now to see you struggle in such pain; 
I wish there was somethin' I could do to make you smile again."
I said, "I get that, but can you help us to be virus free?"
"No chance" he said! "I'd rather save the hedge fund money tree!"

He said, "We will keep the airports open, it's a human right;
with the virus on board, they'll be taking their flights."
That's why he moved the goalposts, and I now I realise 

 sixty four ways to mislead a people
 sixty four changes to mislead the people."

* "I saw the whole [European Union] change. It was a wonderful time to be there. The Berlin Wall fell and the French and Germans had to decide how they were going to respond to this event, and what was Europe going to become, and there was this fantastic pressure to create a single polity, to create an answer to the historic German problem, and this produced the most fantastic strains in the Conservative Party, so everything I wrote from Brussels, I found was sort of chucking these rocks over the garden wall and I listened to this amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over in England as everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the Tory party, and it really gave me this I suppose rather weird sense of power."

Boris Johnson

SOURCE : Gimson, Andrew (2012). Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson (second ed.). Simon & Schuster . page 102

This self admission of his enjoyment of the buzz of causing distress in others, at a distance, is indicative...

His professional use of the mussed up hair, and jocularity is of course a performance.

On the one hand the prefect who fags his juniors, on the other hand the comedian who distracts the audience...


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