The end of days

The Conservative Party under the leadership of Boris Johnson has an 80 seat majority in the House of Commons, and so could pass whatever laws and acts it wants.

But that is not enough.

The Government under Johnson and his adviser, Cummings, are attacking most of the pillars of our democracy: The Judiciary, The BBC and C4, the Civil Service, Judicial Review, Freedom of Information requests, literally have hidden in a fridge to avoid scrutiny from the media and the public.

The Civil Service is first in their sights, with the plan to remove career civil servants and replace them with political appointees, like in the US. Reports abound today or clashes between senior civil servants and their ministers. Accusations of bullying are being made against Patel among others.

And competent ministers who have their own opinion are replaced by those who are compliant.

The ability to say "yes" to anything Johnson or Cummings wants or says is valued more than actually understanding their ministerial brief. Explains a few appointments I suppose.

This is so that Government and its advisers can govern by decree without scrutiny, without question. The previous Chancellor resigned that have to sack all his advisors and have them replaced by Cummings appointees.

The BBC is set to lose its licence fee, and the Governments decision to remove free licences for the over 75s is being blamed on the corporation rather than ministers. A public broadcaster is important, asking questions of authority, debate on how it could be funded is another matter, but there is talk of selling it all off except for Radio 3 and Radio 4, the Home and Light Service, as was.

So either Cummings or Johnson bans ministers from going on Radio 4, Good Morning Britain or Channel 4 News as these are deemed hostile media. As well as ministerial contact with lobbyists is now banned and apparently a network of spies is around London to catch those who do not obey.

Does this sound normal?

What will this mean to the country, when the reality of this is understood, and if carried out to conclusion? Not be able to change anything, not be able to challenge, and also in the sights id the fixed term Parliament Act, so the PM can pick and chose his, or her, moment. The act was brought in for a reason.

We said this would happen.

Oh no, Johnson is just posturing, he'll mellow out after the election. But apparently not.

So, five years of Johnson and Cummings, end up with no BBC, no NHS, no Civil Service and dogma lead policies everywhere, regardless of the impact on people and their lives.

We get what we deserve.