I wrote the following on May 7th, 2015, as the UK Conservatives won the Westminster elections, ushering in the Brexit vote, the increasing pandering to far-right voices and the entrenched distraction techniques hiding austerity and the deepening wealth gap.

“I’ve awoken this morning under a government more bigoted, more insular, more self-centred than when I went to sleep. We’ve voted for the right-wing, for the crypto-fascists, for the racists and for the rich who profit off the divided and the benighted; the working people. I read that there was a voter turnout of 80% for the over 60s. I hope they don’t need the NHS as they get older.”

I’m not really surprised that I was right.