It was announced last year that the 2020 May Day holiday - International Workers Day - would be moved from it's regular slot of the first Monday in May to a Friday that coincided with the anniversary of the end of the war in Europe in 1945. Perhaps not unreasonable as it was the working classes that inevitably suffered most in, and more notably after, the conflict. But the latest UKGov announcement is surely taking the piss? When I first saw it I assumed I'd been transported to 1 April, so ridiculous did it seem, but it checks out on several other sources. For this is the Uk (for now) of Doris, master fantasist and liar-in-chief.
This was the story I saw.
We, the minions of the populace, are to be treated to public broadcasts of the speech Winston Churchill made on that day three quarters of a century ago. What? When did simultaneous announcements in public spaces become a thing? With Doris fancying himself as the reincarnation of Churchill's ghost (or whatever goes on in that bewildered organ that passes for a brain) this has the whiff of a government propaganda machine - and for that there is already a recent precedent, following the news that we rebellious Scots are to be subjected to short films extolling the 'benefits' of the union (benefits to whom one wonders...?).
So what have we got here? It's brexshit writ large. Twist a day dedicated to the solidarity of workers, the most important holiday of the year to many, to other purposes. Try to make as many people as possible listen to a racist drunkard so we appreciate the benefits of peace in Europe - whilst destroying our relationship with the political union that has done more than any other organisation or state to secure that peace for the past 70 years.
Dystopian future, here we come.
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