One of the keys to corner a population is fear, but what do we understand by fear?
According to the RAE, this is its meaning: fear is anguish, due to real or imaginary risk or damage (pay attention to the latter). It ends with a suspicion or apprehension that someone fears that something contrary to what they want will happen to them. Outside of the official definition, we understand that it has not happened yet (watch out for this definition too).
Before, the rulers sought glory by channeling the impoverished classes and without the possibility of social advancement to form a country at the expense of others. Now they have the same intention but using fear.
Yes, fear is the flag of every government of the so-called liberal democracies. It has always been used to refer to a common enemy, obviously together with the dominant military power, that is, the United States. They are the images of streets burning due to a revolt, either due to the rise of the basic food basket, due to the impunity of certain politicians such as kings, presidents of governments, judges, military and high-ranking policemen, mainly of all those whose Influence allows them to generate and increase their wealth at the expense of their management of the public purse.
Again fear was the threat to those who imitate, congenial or befriend countries that do not follow the script of a power. Since I am aware, I have seen the images of empty supermarkets, without products, where their people did not have access to buy, it was not known if these people had money to buy or not, because that was not the message. The decision to get out of the channel produces scarcity, and scarcity is the beginning of ruin. This was their main theme, not that a country is blocked and there is a lack of products.
“With lifted feet, hands still,
I am poised, and down the hill
Dart, with heedful mind;
The air goes by in a wind.
Swifter and yet more swift,
Till the heart with a mighty lift
Makes the lungs laugh, the throat cry:—
“O bird, see; see, bird, I fly.”
Now, for the first time since World War II, there is a shortage of basic goods in the UK. There is no commercial blockade. There is no reason other than the breach of an agreement and bureaucratic obstacles by their citizenship to the people who were part of that chain. That’s all folks. Every effort has been made to drive out the Eastern Europeans, who mostly collected the sad British countryside, now they are not collected.
After all, it was a shot in the foot by the landlords themselves who subsidized Brexit. On the other hand, malicious obstacles to carriers, many of them self-employed or SMEs (small and medium-sized companies), do not make routes to the United Kingdom profitable.
And what does the population say? Blame it on the EU (European Union). This is how many mass media are selling it for the most part. However, a fact to take into account is the widespread junk food, the basis of the unhealthy diet that maintains a very high percentage of the population. This group is not noticing the lack of products in a decisive way, they only verify that where there were several different types of products, now there are only a few and in reduced numbers.
According to some supply managers, storage is still being dosed before the consummation of Brexit, which is quite finite.
Otherwise, the main perishable products such as vegetables and fruits, which come from the EU, have declined, but we return to the above. In a country where the precooked or frozen food sections are gigantic this is not an urgent problem.
It also seems that some half truths or half lies are unveiled, like those famous American fast food chains that claim to stock up on national products where they open their business. The reality is different.
Officially in the UK we already eat chlorine washed chicken. On the other hand, companies that do use mostly British produce are closing stores because the main ingredient on their menu does not reach them.
And wouldn’t it be a good opportunity to update and improve the intake of certain animals? Yes, but now more than ever, healthy food can only be afforded by a part of the population. No, eating Scottish farm colored salmon, frozen fish, canned meats, processed meats, canned tomato legumes… is not a healthy or healthy eating nor should it last longer. An important factor in child deaths due to Covid-19 is the quality of the diet of the youngest, many of whom suffer from chronic diseases, let’s also talk about poverty, many lads do not eat if they do not go to school.
Our Prime Minister wants to raise taxes on those who have the most, which is why his popularity decreases. There are people whose emotional sustenance from flags and fanciful national pride will not run out until it is the only thing they can put in their mouths. The worst are the misplaced, that majority group who act as a farmhouse dog, those who think that by reaching the end of the month they are just upper class, but lower class, a fictitious lifestyle, only posturing, outside doors. That group that thinks that the elites take them into account, that they are their friends because at the bar counter, in the group of the social network on duty, for shouting at a town fair with their wristband and for their incessant encouragement they are already part of the elite.
No, naive, innocent candid soul. You are a worker, perhaps with some temporary slack, but now. There it was all over.
In summary, the lack of basic products only accentuates the already foreseeable rise in prices and increases poverty in many British families, in others the savings range will be reduced by a very high percentage, if it does not disappear. A country is going downhill and the parapets will be the same as always.
“Is this, is this your joy?
O bird, then I, though a boy,
For a golden moment share
Your feathery life in air!”
Say, heart, is there aught like this
In a world that is full of bliss?
‘Tis more than skating, bound
Steel-shod to the level ground.”
Apart from the lack of products, another detail that has changed life in the United Kingdom is mobility, and I am not speaking for the temporary restrictions of the pandemic, right now, whose consequences are covered by new permanent legislation.
The British must renew their passport and have a validity of half a year to be able to go to Calais to buy tobacco and alcohol, a trip to spend the day, now needs planning. On the other hand, Europeans who access the new work visas, not permanent residents, are suffering the exploitation of their companies, abuses by their bosses, since if you lose your job, you lose your legal stay in the country in a short time , unless you find a job with the same characteristics in a time of crisis and unemployment.
In addition, due to privatization or outsourcing, the vacancies are precarious, by the hour and with a salary of a decade ago.
Johnson’s proposals to raise taxes on the rich I can’t quite believe, or I disagree, if they are going to be in such a way that it serves to create a society with less difference, something that in elitist England is difficult to imagine.
Before the Winter Solstice we will see the first measurements, then we will assess them as much as possible.
“Speed slackens now, I float
Awhile in my airy boat;
Till, when the wheels scarce crawl,
My feet to the treadles fall.”
At home, Andalusia, we have more of the same. A president who eliminated the Ministry of the Environment, whose party, together with those he co-governs, directly and indirectly, although they make morisquetas like street theater, and the party that ruled for almost four decades in the Spanish Senate refused to protect Sierra Bermeja. Then they reduced and formalized the INFOCA, one of whose members died putting out the fire, they diverted the troops to protect villas and golf courses before the residents of the localities. They always ask to harden the penal code, then a series of laws that sweeten these terrorist acts are taken out of the hat.
What else should they do to stop them from supporting them?
“Alas, that the longest hill
Must end in a vale; but still,
Who climbs with toil, wheresoe’er,
Shall find wings waiting there. A Boy Song/Going Downhill on a bicycle of H.C Beeching”.
President Moreno is missing an opportunity to carry out another type of policy and he wants to show us in a legislature that it can be just as disastrous as that of his predecessors. Social cut, brick and destroy our natural heritage.
They want us to live only from tourism and they destroy the only thing that differentiates us from the world. Golf courses, beaches, cheap beer, there are already a thousand more places, and nowhere far from Andalusia, a country downhill too.
