So, this is how people are spending their weekends now. Instead of enjoying the last bit of summer, walking the dog, seeing mates, or, and this is a radical thought, helping out in their own communities, groups of self-appointed ‘patriots’ are rocking up with buckets of paint and rollers to daub Union Jacks across roundabouts, road signs, even bits of grass verge. It’s like the world’s least fun art club: no creativity, no purpose, just vandalism masquerading as pride. Cash strapped councils will be left to deal with the results. Someone on Instagram asked me what I thought ‘woke people banging pots’ achieved. A strange bit of ‘whataboutery’ really. I didn’t reply because if you don’t understand what’s different about someone banging a pot which they then take home and put neatly back into a drawer and defacing a roundabout, you probably also believe that Farage won’t dismantle the NHS, enrich his cronies and support the return of fossil fuels if given the chance.
The frightening thing is how quickly such mindless hate can be whipped up, aided and abetted by our media of course. Asylum Seeker benefits cost the taxpayer £2 a year. Tax Avoidance? £3000 a year. Multi millionaire Nigel Farage, who has already helped damage the country in multiple ways, making things more expensive for the people he pretends to champion, says ‘look over there’, and it works.
