Apocalypse June 2021
By: Liam Mitchell
Tags: Delta Variant, Propaganda, Euro 2020, Freedom Day, Pride Month

Empire Day

The UK Department of Education encourages schools across the UK to celebrate One Britain One Nation day on 25th June, when children can learn about shared values of tolerance, kindness, pride and respect. (Scottish schools had already broken up for summer, but go on.) All stand, for the official OBON Day anthem. All turn to the portrait of Her Majesty hung on every patriotic British wall, and sing along if you know the words! Strong Britain, Great Nation / Strong Britain, Great Na-a-tion.

Freedom day!! must regrettably be delayed. Hancock says he’s confident that one day soon, freedom will return. His position is hopelessly untenable. Boris Johnson should sack him. Ha, how did we end up here? It’s getting tense. The Delta/Johnson variant is rife. On ppe it’s a disaster, I can’t think of anything except taking Hancock off and putting Gove on. Gove says we’ll re-engineer the whole NHS to make sure people don’t wait in pain. Hancock thinks he’s Don Draper. Hancock’s gone. Someone actually resigned… but wait! Look who’s back, back again, it’s Sajid Javid, for some reason, and he can barely contain his delight.

It’s five years since the referendum and no one, but no one, foresaw that any government would make such a mess of Brexit. The EU should stop making threats to big countries like Britain, negotiator David Frost says (that’s The Right Honourable The Lord Frost). He’s not used to it at home, where government overreach goes unpunished, where they can shrug off purist attitudes to promises, contracts, laws, and no one can do them for any of it. Slippery they are, sneering, untouchable. Elton John’s 74 years of age and he just doesn’t get this unfairness and this ridiculous ability to lie through your teeth every fucking minute of the day. Divide, conquer and if one of them falls, you know the next in line will basically be the same, or worse, or Gove.

Pride month, corporate rainbows. Controversy. UEFA had to be apolitical, UEFA had to ban it. Munich had to light it up anyway. Didn’t. Neuer wore the rainbow armband again and we all moved on. Fuck it, it, something, happened. Goretzka made a heart sign with his hands at the Hungary fans. In the next round rainbow flags were confiscated from fans attending the stadium in Budapest. It’s ridiculous. It’s all these thousands of witless ageing folk falling for the grift, projecting oppression on themselves, defending it feeling they’re fighting for something real, like they’re the sane ones, protecting traditional patriotic values from the nonsense, from the loony woke snowflake culture war left, the threat. It’s like, cancel critical race theory! Down with reality! Reality is, diversity stimulates economy. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creates and the whole of nature in its beauty (1). Love, equality and freedom are not political provocations. They are human rights, enshrined in EU Treaties! (2) Forget failures of centrism you’ve seen in the past, failures of leftism, communism. No. We have to Make It New, a post-post-modern future. My hunch is that we won’t though. My hunch is that we’re truly fucked.

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(1) Albert Einstein

(2) Guy Verhofstadt