Report me to Prevent, you fascist cunts, I could use the publicity

 I went for a long walk yesterday. Which is to say, as regular readers of this blog will be aware, I went for multiple short walks interspersed with periods sitting on public benches trying to get my breath back. So I was very tired when I got home, and so I woke up later than usual this morning and, when I checked my Facebook messages, I learned that Tory leadership candidate (and Borrower) Rishi Sunak - a man who, you may recall, the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves compared at the dispatch box to both Ted Heath and Lewis Carroll - is planning to refer to Prevent, Britain's 'anti-terrorism strategy', those, and I quote Sunak himself specifically here, 'who are vocal in their hatred of our country'. 

What common factor could these three men share?

Further perusal of the article I quoted reveals that Tories in the Sunak camp (which in my mind is a bit like that episode of Doom Patrol where they're all living in improvised shelters on Cliff's Scalextric track because they've all been shrunkened down) are referring to their proposed offence as 'vilifying Britain', and that 'Any "vilification" of Britain would need to appear in written form or speech in order to qualify for Prevent'. 

To which all I have to say is have you read my last book? 

Clear enough for you?

In case you think that's a blip, rest assured I have continued to vilify this country in my work since then:

It's absurd that out of one side of his mouth Rishi Sunak will make noises about 'free speech' in the context of the trans 'debate' or when the speech in question is the racist speech of white Britons, and yet at the same time will talk about taking measures like this in case any gammon get upset at nasty people like me being mean about their flags. 

But who am I really kidding? We all know that I'm unlikely to arouse much interest at Prevent. Ask any black or brown Brit and they'll tell you: Prevent is an anti-Muslim programme. The Trojan Horse podcast established that pretty conclusively. And what was the UK response to that exposure? To get their lackeys in the media to run a bunch of cowardly, bootlicking pieces rubbishing the podcast's hosts for doing what they'd been too afraid to do, and commission a review of the Prevent programme led by Henry Jackson Society board member William Shawcross, which concluded, as it had no doubt been intended to from the start, that the problem with Prevent was that it wasn't Islamophobic enough.  

So of course this proposed 'don't hurt Britain's feelings, it is a smol bean and minor-coded' legislation will really be used as another way of tightening the noose around the neck of this country's black and brown community, criminalising them now for the act of simply speaking out against the fact that they face an onslaught of racist policy and policing from this Tory government - in a week when it emerged that London's Metropolitan Police - the same force which gave us Sarah Everard's murderer and rapist - seems to be operating a policy of strip-searching children, with the majority of those searched coming from a BAME background. 

And it's no surprise that it's Rishi Sunak making this proposal. Rishi Sunak, who never met a racist bully whose boot he wouldn't lick for personal advancement, once again selling out his fellow people of colour in a desperate attempt to appeal to the Tory headbangers who are all going to vote for Liz Truss anyway because despite the fact she's an inept, attention-seeking Maggie Thatcher cosplayer who nearly got us nuked by Russia once already, she's the white candidate and that is really all they care about. And Rishi knows that's all they care about, which is why he's trying to show he's a racist as they are. But only one BAME Tory MP has ever been able to work the Priti Hate Machine in a way that gets the Tory faithful going, and she didn't even run for leader (probably calculating, correctly, that even she couldn't ride the pick-me grift into Number 10). 

I would like to apologise to Rikishi and ONLY to Rikishi for making the above image.

Which in some ways is a shame, because in a way Rishi Sunak really is the perfect representative of Britain today: a short man who goes to preposterous lengths to conceal his lack of stature, aided by a state media apparatus that airs cartoons depicting him as Superman; a former Chancellor of the Exchequer who got a US green card to avoid paying UK taxes; a man compared to two different paedophiles as a matter of Parliamentary record; and most of all, a person of colour who sought advancement by proving to white people just how much he was willing to sell people like himself out to help them turn a profit, get their jollies, or just feel better about their wretched little lives. Yes, Rishi Sunak is perfect as Britain's representative to the rest of the world - because as a corrupt, self-important Hobbit who owes his success entirely to complicity with racism, he's practically a walking metaphor for this country. 

And if saying that counts as vilification, you better lock me up then, 'cause I ain't gonna stop saying it.