Let’s turn our anger into action with a summer of solidarity | Zoe Williams
The sense of fury is quite familiar, while its locus becomes more extreme: we were outraged in 2013 by Theresa May’s racist vans; furious about David Cameron’s 2015 minimum income requirement for British citizens wishing to live with their spouse in their own country. I could reach back to 2005 and briefly reignite the dismay at Michael Howard’s sly, sinister and failed election campaign, whose rhetorical question – “Are you thinking what we’re thinking?” – asked the nation to reimagine itself as a place where everyone was a secret furnace of boiling resentment towards the Polish delicatessen, just waiting for a sign.
We have been sickened by the Grenfell fire and appalled by the abject failure of Kensington and Chelsea council, which this week was revealed to have left two-thirds of its victims still homeless, while £21m has sat in the bank, earmarked for “affordable” housing. From the Windrush scandal to the deliberate disenfranchisement caused by ID requirements at local elections, every act has that disorienting quality of being simultaneously shocking and inevitable.
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