Boris’s Britain: “it wasn’t a party”

• THE Russians have a word for it – vran’ye.

It means I am lying, and you know I’m lying, and I know you know I’m lying, and it has no effect.

Vran’ye flourished not just in the USSR (there are no food shortages, comrade) but in Putin’s Russia, Trump’s US (the election was stolen) and now in Boris’s Britain: “There was no party and if there was, he wasn’t there and it wasn’t a party.”

We live in a culture of lies.

The other day I returned a top to Camden TK Maxx where the assistant handed me its plastic wrapping to take home.

It was marked recyclable. “Won’t it get recycled in store?” I asked. “No, we don’t recycle,” he told me. So all their plastic goes in the bin.

Vran’ye again!

TK Maxx’s website says: “Doing the right thing is at the heart of everything we do. Our commitment to adding value extends way beyond the products we sell, it is a principle that we live and breathe.

“Being responsible is at our core. We have a zero waste to landfill target. All waste from stores and operations is sent to be recycled.”

Meanwhile a huge new incinerator is being built at Edmonton, to burn toxic rubbish, which will further damage local people’s health in an already polluted area.

And last week two more elephants died in Sri Lanka from eating plastic waste. Microplastics are now found in the tissues of unborn babies. This toxic culture needs to stop.

UNA SAPIETIS
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