We have one of our grandchildren staying with us this weekend. It’s going to be a busy weekend.
Meanwhile, out in Coronaland democracy (or at least the insipid version we have of it) is being thrown to the wolves.
I had a terrible dream last night.
I dreamt that Johnson took charge of a machinegun and mowed down twenty troublesome reporters in full daylight, in front of the entire cabinet. He threw red meat to the electorate.
Johnson told the press that there was no machinegun.
When shown photos of him holding the machinegun he told everyone that had been thrust into his hands when he wasn’t looking.
When shown the receipt he had signed to procure the machinegun from the MOD he said that OK yes he had ordered the gun but no bullets.
When shown the receipt for the bullets with his signature on it he remembered he had ordered the machinegun and bullets because he had been intending to help defend Ukraine against the Russians.
When the cabinet were asked about the murder of the 20 reporters they all claimed not to have been there.
When shown photos showing they were there, it turns out that they were all looking out the window at the time and saw nothing.
When asked why he had mown down the reporters Johnson claimed there had something wrong with the trigger. He had followed all the rules putting it together but it had just gone off in his hands.
That it hadn’t been a massacre but a robust working exchange of views.
When the police were asked why they had not investigated the mass murder they said ‘What murder?’
Johnson then asked a civil servant that he employed to investigate him.
When it appeared that the civil servant wasn’t going to play ball and might say that the PM had deliberate killed the 20 reporters, Johnson got on the phone to his mates in the police.
He organised the cabinet to save the Big Dog’s skin. They all rushed out to tell everyone what a great job he had been doing on Brexit, Covid and everything else (glossing over deaths, rising prices, shortages, tax rises, National Insurance prices…..). He’d got all the big decisions right. They explained that there were huge problems that only Big Dog could solve – the War in Ukraine, the spiralling inflation, the cost of living, Care Homes etc. (Without mentioning that Big Dog was responsible for most of these problems). Were we going to put a trifle like a faulty trigger get in the way of dealing with these problems?
The civil servant was about to release a damning report saying that it was beyond doubt that Johnson had mown down the reporters.
The police stepped in to prevent the report being released so that they could spend the next forty years investigating whether Johnson had been there, whether the machine gun existed and if the accident of the faulty trigger was worth checking.
I woke in a sweat!!
You know I can’t help thinking that in the past any Prime Minister caught out lying and breaking the law would have resigned.
But then they at least had some integrity. This man is immoral. He can’t be trusted.
We have to remember back to then – people were fined for having a socially distanced cup of tea in the garden with the next-door neighbour.
Yet, according to these ministers trying to play down what has been going on at Number 10, it’s perfectly alright, just a trivial thing, for there to be a culture of parties of up to 50 people. Bring your own bottle, booze brought in disguised in shopping trolleys.
This isn’t just haphazard, impromptu, this is calculated, planned and carried out with arrogance. They made the law and did not believe it applied to them!
There were no parties!
All rules were followed!
They were work meetings!
Everyone involved will be punished.
I was only there for a short time!
It’s the dishonesty, the hypocrisy and the complete lack of integrity. These people have no honour. It is a culture that permeates the whole of the Tory culture and I believe it stems from their Public School entitlement. They believe they are superior. They think we are gullible, stupid and they can wriggle out of anything.
We’ll see.
So yesterday there were 89,176 new cases with 277 deaths – still higher than when we went to Plan B. Politically the pandemic is over. In reality it is still running high!
In the USA cases are higher than last autumn!.
The new variant is spreading even faster than omicron!! Yipee!!
Stupid claims that only 17,000 have died have been shown to be plain stupid. The real figure in now 178,000.
Good on Neil Young and Joni Mitchell for pulling their stuff from Spotify over its spreading of false antivaxxer garbage.
New studies show that in Long Covid there may be underlying lung damage (probably damage to other internal organs as well). They will affect people for life.
Don’t be a stubborn fool – look at the evidence – get vaccinated!
Stay safe!!
Opher – When BoJo oozes into your nightmares, I think its definitely time to put down the pen, ease away from the tabloids, and have a nice cup of tea!
When discussing the Met, and Cressida Dick, firstly let’s not forget she had her contract extended by the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, for two years despite there having been scandals. At the time Patel said, “Her extension will provide continuity and stability as we emerge from the Coronavirus pandemic…” I think we can suggest at what went unspoken in Patel’s remark, the words ‘on behalf of the P.M’ inserted after continuity and stability. Secondly, it was BoJo who backed Patel when it was found she had bullied senior Department staff. He saved her job, so Patel is in hock to him. Evident then is that Dick’s in Patel’s pocket, Patel (and hence Dick) are in BoJo’s pocket, and Gray works for the clown! That’s how they square the inner circle.
Suggestion is Gray’s report – neutered by the Met’s investigation – will be released when parliament is sitting. Gray did not want to give BoJo the weekend to read the report before releasing it to others. Which is all-well-and-good, but let’s be honest, it’s yet another delay tactic that gives BoJo more time to beg MP’s to support his lying premiership.
Labour have dropped their lead over the Tories to 5 points in the polls after their Partygate surge. The Tories have gained 2 points in the past two weeks. It is difficult to understand why there is returning support for the Tories…is it that Labour under Starmer have not done enough to convince voters they are (even) an opposition party, with clear, progressive policies, and broad vision?
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