Russia and England.

History’s a long game; imagine walking slowly from say York to Shrewsbury. Adam Curtis’s current documentaries about Russia show an arc of desperation where the leaders have changed from the Tzars to Communism to Oligarchs in the almost city state of Moscow while the populous outside remain steadfastly feudal, knowing life only in the micro joys of hopelessness, hunger and poverty. The central Oprachecs of all three regimes know only the joys of a grossly fat bank account, there is no centre ground. They have created a legality of crime where heads or tails, they win, and have induced in the surf population, like cattle, no capacity to object. Between the late 1800’s and up to 1960’s England needed an educated populous for the industrial revolution and the later wars. Since then teaching has lost its kudos, schools their funding and higher education has been structured to provide ‘future money’ from student loans, and to provide bums on seats, like customers at McDonalds. Only the wealthy gain a ‘recognised’ education and social media replaces educated thinking by popular memes of prejudice masquerading as information. There is thus a growing feudal and often feral ‘outside class’ of ‘the poor’ incapable of effect or paying their gas bills. Above them our UK Oprachecs are spinning so fast their latest PM has only lasted three weeks. Last night one actually stopped for a moment he was so livid. Today Liz Truss made her last U turn to take over Boris Johnson’s holiday let in the Bahamas. OK it’s an exaggeration but I think the UK is taking over the Russian model. What’s super rich is Liz’s budget to cut tax for high tax payers to ‘grow the economy’ was so badly received by the high tax payers of the financial sector. Why? Because they know better than most that reducing tax for high tax payers won’t ‘grow the economy’ at all, just put the country in more debt! They’re not scrabbling round for a tin of beans. Ukraine is beating Russia because Putin’s in Lala Land and the ordinary people of Ukraine have a higher moral than Russia’s ordinary people. It’s the ordinary people that have always grown the economy and won the war given half a chance, not coke snorting city types. Give them tangible hope not handouts.