If you want to know how messed-up politics has become in the
Covid era, consider this: a Tory government is agitating for working people to have the right to return to work, while the TUC and the rest of the left are howling for working people to be kept at home. Evil Tories want to get the working classes working, while hip Corbynistas cry: 'No! It's too dangerous. Leave them in their flats.'
It's an about-face of epic proportions. How far we've come since the Battle of Orgreave. It is now the left that wants working people to be decommissioned, put out to pasture, languishing on state-paid wages or Universal Credit and uncertain of whether their job will even exist once the lockdown is finally lifted. And it's the Tories saying: 'Erm, don't you think it would be better if working people worked?'
Of course, the left's justification for its new policy of preventing the working classes from working is that they might catch Covid-19 and die. They're ramping up the culture of fear in a desperate effort to present their bizarre, historically unprecedented anti-work outlook as a good, noble thing. Actual facts - like the fact that
under-40s have made up just 0.75 per cent of deaths from Covid - don't get so much as a look-in. No, keep all workers at home, even the fit, healthy young ones.
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