Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution

Today's shot is actually an image of the back page from a magazine for the University of Birmingham - one of the rather random selection of publications which we seem to have accumulated around the house - it is about how if we don't take radical action, the consequences of plastic pollution on our health and the environment will be catastrophic and that we need to build a world that is more sustainable.
I don't mean this to feel like a diatribe, but I think we have the right to be angry and profoundly sad about the the present state of things. It also feels like a metaphor for where we are as a country at the moment.
Just in the last few days we've had the stories about our crumbling schools, hospital and public buildings, the rowing back of environmental protections, the sewage scandal and councils having to file for bankruptcy.
This present inept government is deservedly in its dying days but it almost feels like it wants to take the country down with it. The utter fallacies of austerity and Brexit and their long term consequences really are coming home to roost.
As Ian Daunt has stated a recent excellent article on school buildings crisis in The i newspaper "What we are seeing is a result of government decisions, based on an ideological commitment to austerity, worsened by by a penny-pinching Treasury culture, exacerbated by a chaotic government department, and compounded by some of the most inept political leadership it is possible to imagine".
Just one example of this malaise is the scandal over reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in schools, which has seen 104 schools partially or fully closed, has it roots in the origin of Conservative rule, with  the 2010 austerity programme.
At least 18 of the schools confirmed to have RAAC had funding withdrawn in 2010 when Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme was scrapped. Capital spending on schools has fallen from around £10bn in 2009-2010, when it was cancelled by Michael Gove, to around £4.6bn in 2013-2014 and had continued to fall even when the Department of Education concluded in 2020 that it needed £5.8bn per year from 2021 to 2025 just to maintain school buildings and mitigate the most serious risks. One of these decisions on reducing expenditure was taken by Rishi Sunak when he was Chancellor. It eventually meant that the actual funds allocated by government was 40% below the Government's own assessed level of need. 
Yet this Government insists on blaming local councils whose grants they have cut by up to a punishing 40% in real terms over the decade to 2020. The Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, provided a masterclass in how not to deal with a crisis as she smiled vacuously at the camera during an interview while insisting that everything was fine and continued with an off-mic outburst in which she she complained that no-one was telling her "you've done a f**king good job" and finished it off with telling education leaders to "get off their backsides". Everyone else was to blame, apart from herself. This appears to be a mantra for our government as a whole - everyone else is to blame apart from them! Since when should it to be acceptable to risk the safety of your children when you send them to school!!
We really do need a revolution in the way this country is run - with honesty, integrity, competence, responsibility, fairness, care and compassion being at its core. I must admit the opposition parties don't yet inspire a huge amount of confidence either - it seems to be a preaching of the status quo with a few tweaks here and there but anything has to be better than this utterly inept government which is collapsing faster than some of our schools and where, what sometimes feesl like, our crisis-hit nation seems to have forgotten how to do the basics.
Sorry if that was a bit of a polemic!