Who is next?
Revolutions always eat their young and always need new enemies to keep the revolution going, or to be more precise keep the revolutionary leaders in power.
Brexit and austerity were both revolutions and their backers are still desperate to keep the true believers in power.
Hence the newspaper attacks on train drivers (paid a fortune), nurses (paid a fortune and spend a lot of time drinking tea), ambulance drivers (paid a fortune to drive a small truck, no other skills or training) and teachers (paid a fortune with long holidays during which they read up on Das Kapital).
The latest are the nursing agencies which are private, free market, enterprising companies, supplying desperately needed nurses to fill gaps in the rota, but which are apparently now “leeches who are bleeding the NHS dry”.
The fact that with enough nurses the agencies would be completely unnecessary, seems some how to have got lost in the scramble to find another “enemy of the people”.
But it works, that is the point. Revolutionaries are very, very good at creating enemies, those suspiciously well off, the traitors who explain why the revolution hasn’t worked and the vested interests that must be destroyed.
Who is next? The lazy young, the early retirees, the feckless benefits claimants, the civil servants, the middle managers, the woke, and the anti-discrimination legislation?
But don’t all worry at the same time, it will never be the rich, the tax dodgers, the home owners or the pensioners.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media