I wonder if austerity- as well as contributing in practical terms to the UK state’s pitiful attempts to deal with Covid- might also have contributed to the ‘oh dear’ism of media and popular class response. Death by state negligence and callousness has been normalised.

Enough people to fill Wembley Stadium have died from Coronavirus but even the opposition aren’t calling for the prime minister’s resignation. It must be a hundred years since the ruling class was able to put so low a price on human life.

Starmer kicked Corbyn out of the PLP but hasn’t once called on Jonson to resign. Because the enemy isn’t the government sacrificing workers and old people at the altar of capital but wokeness, socialism and anti-imperialism.

The capitalist, political and media classes closed ranks to see off Corbynism and now they’ve colluded in sending thousands to their deaths with a collective shrug, because private profit must be protected at all costs.

In my teaching and writing I'm always at pains to emphasise that politics is about competing interests, but Covid has demonstrated the sheer contempt that the capitalist and managerial classes have for renters, workers, and those unable to work.

People who rely on work for an income are a clear majority. Throughout Covid, neither party has been on our side, and barely anyone in media has said so.

I mean it's pretty much impossible to argue with this from a left perspective in a context where we're missing meals to save money while the figurehead of our movement is saying the government are basically doing fine but need better messaging. https://twitter.com/mish_rahman/status/1353715633935032321?s=20