While Boris Johnson is quite content for everyone to see what a buffoon he is, recognising the value of comedy when entertaining the hoipolei, he is usually more reticent to expose his vicious side. Today he has allowed the mask to slip just enough for us to glimpse the monster that hides beneath. It would be normal to see a Tory standing against strikers, but to talk in terms of "crushing" them reveals the true attitude that they have with regards to ordinary people in this country. They do not see us human beings who permit them to govern through the democratic process - they see us as peasants to be ruled. A general strike would be nothing more than the British people exercising their democratic right to withdraw their labour in the face of the most sustained attack on their rights since the Middle Ages. We have a right to resist the Tory attempt, using their self-inflicted recession as an alibi, to drag us all back to the level of a pre-industrialised country. For Boris such defiance is all the excuse he needs to declare war on his fellow citizens simply because they are not as rich or as privileged as he is. These people have the sheer affrontary to accuse others of formenting class-warfare even as they take away our rights, pauperise our children and deny them a proper education, steal our assets and threaten us with starvation. It is fast becoming clear that a general strike in this country is not enough and that revolution might be the only choice left open to us.
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