Ha Ha Ha Ha – excuse me while I laugh. Operation Moonshot – mass testing of the whole country. Ha Ha Ha Ha. They can’t even deliver the limited testing we’ve got now! How many times have we been hived off with these grandiose, exaggerated soundbites??? We’ve had world-beating apps, world-beating PPS, world-beating Track and Trace, imaginary protective rings, world-beating vaccines (now stalled), oven-ready Brexit, Deals that are the best deals ever (now considered so bad we have to renege on our word and flout international law).
I’m sick of arrogant soundbites! I’m sick of the arrogance, incompetence and stupidity. They are treating us like fools.
Now we have mass testing Operation Moonshot – more likely a £1 rocket left over from the last Guy Fawkes day, likely to go off like a damp squib.
Today I feel ashamed, tainted by these Bullingdon boys total disregard for the law or the electorate. With a majority of 80, no election for another three years and still enjoying a lead in polls, they think they can do anything – and they are. They don’t really care. They know they can make a complete pig’s ear of the whole thing and then waltz off into a life of luxury as they are offered huge sums of money for doing next to nothing – just like Cameron, Osborne and May. It’s the rest of us who will pick up the bill!
Our covid cases are shooting up – another 2699 yesterday, and the deaths are starting to rise too – 10 yesterday. As there is a two to three-week gap between rises in cases and deaths, we can expect that increase to come through further down the line.
Meanwhile, in Trumpville, the virus is on the rise again – another 29,946 new cases yesterday and another 1176 new cases. Trump is wriggling. He now claims he deliberately downplayed the virus so as not to panic people. I imagine that over 190,000 deaths is pretty scary. Maybe if he had reinforced the safety procedures – distancing, handwashing and masks – instead of calling it a hoax a good number of those 190,000 might still be alive! The bleach doesn’t seem to be working on this ‘hoax’. Or is it a ‘Deep State’ plot????
The same thing is happening in Brazil where Bolsonaro is overseeing another drastic burning of rainforests while the rate goes up to 35,816 new cases and 1075 deaths.
All these clowns care about is wealth and power!!
I walk to forget. I did a 16.5K walk today on the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds. Up roman roads, past 2nd World War airfields, neolithic earthworks and the beautiful ‘slacks’ (valleys). I’ll put some photos up soon. The sun shone for half the time and there was a delightful old abandoned church.
Back home I’ve been playing a bit of Charlie Poole.
Great stuff.
Stay Safe everyone!
A more honest national anthem to suit these disgusting times. When a nation reneges on promises made it is a time of shame for us all! We put a liar in charge and now his lack of moral character reflects on everyone one of us!
No Rules Brittania
No rules Brittania, Brittania waives the rules.
Britons ever, ever, ever shall be fools.
When Britain first at Johnson’s command
Created the nation’s pain
This was the charter of the land
And guardian angels sang the strain:
No rules Brittania, Brittania waives the rules.
Britons ever, ever, ever shall be fools.
The nations so much more blest than thee
Must watch us led by fools
While they shall flourish great and free
The dread and envy of us all.
No rules Brittania, Brittania waives the rules.
Britons ever, ever, ever shall be fools.
Still less majestic shalt thou fall
More dreadful, from each foreign stroke;
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to uproot thy native oak.
No rules Brittania, Brittania waives the rules.
Britons ever, ever, ever shall be fools.
The haughty tyrant so very lame
Attempts to bend thee down,
Will but arouse thy generous shame;
But work their woe to damage thy renown.
No rules Brittania, Brittania waives the rules.
Britons ever, ever, ever shall be fools.
To thee belongs the poison rain;
Thy cities awash with poverty’s grime:
All thine shall be stolen in the main,
And every tax steals thine.
No rules Brittania, Brittania waives the rules.
Britons ever, ever, ever shall be fools.
The Muses, now with misery found,
Shall from thy unhappy coast repair;
Curst Isle! With matchless stupidity crown’d,
As Bullingdon boys exploit the fair.
No rules Brittania, Brittania waives the rules.
Britons ever, ever, ever shall be fools.
Adaptation – Opher – 9.9.2020
Here we are 169 days into lockdown and isolation and we are actually going backwards! The numbers are rising and heading for a second wave and Test and Trace is a farce sending people to the other side of the moon to get tested. We have schools back and already closing. We have pubs and restaurants opening and closing like a pair of scissors in a dress-making factory. We have soundbites and dithering and an invisible Johnson – though that’s probably for the best and why they are keeping in out of the limelight.
What we need are facts and leadership! We want a leader who will stand up every day and tell what is happening and what we should be doing and why!
Why aren’t we getting that?
It’s obvious why – Johnson’s blustering is so incoherent he’s a liability. He doesn’t understand and can’t lead. He is unclear in his speech and can’t talk properly.
Nobody knows what the hell is going on, what the rules are or what they are meant to be doing. A lot of the younger people think it’s all over or that it doesn’t affect them. As soon as Cummings and Johnson’s father flouted the rules they think anything goes. Many people now believe that the virus is no longer lethal. Trump’s hoax garbage is being taken up over here. There is talk of herd immunity!
The problem we have is the delay between the new cases and the hospitalisation and death. There is a two to three-week gap!
The Russians seem to have an effective vaccine. Will we use it?? We’d rather die!
The problem is that Johnson chucked all the semi-sane Tories out in a big pure – people like Rory Stewart, Kenneth Clarke and Philip Hammond were unceremoniously dumped. What we have left are a bunch of mad Brexiteers. They are incompetent and rabid. All that is in their heads is Brexit at any cost.
I just arrived home from a walk with friends to find the invisible man Johnson has been reading my blog and surfaced! The government is looking at the figures – another 2659 cases today – 30 more deaths. – and saw that we were heading for another bout of mayhem.
At last, we have a bit of clarity and some universal law that people can understand – no gathering in groups above six in number, socially distance, wash your hands and take care.
I want this sort of consistent message every day! I want explanation and reasons. I want to know the outcome if we don’t. It’s only taken 169 days to get to this! Billy Bunter has finally started doing what he should be doing every single day!! Is that it? Will he disappear tomorrow??
He talks of mass testing and getting back to normal by Christmas. Bloody Hell!! We can’t even do the testing we’re meant to be doing now! What chance have we got???
I had a nice walk. I enjoyed playing my Bruce Springsteen. It’s time for tea!! All the best. Stay safe!!
Sacha Baron speaks great sense. We are living in an age of unreason. Conspiracy theories abound – lies, hate and propaganda. People are being led by demagogues in an age of darkness and superstition. These populist leaders are preying on peoples’ fears and stoking hatred. At the same time, they are waging a war against nature for profit. Trump, Bolsonaro and Johnson are all tearing up environmental legislation in order to maximise profits for greed. We are fed conspiracy theories and anti-science through social media – there is no global warming, the earth is flat, 9/11 was the CIA, the UN is a Deep State conspiracy, science is in the pay of politicians, all politicians are corrupt, experts are all wrong, we never landed on the moon.
This allows superstition and populist propaganda to flourish.
People are being duped by right-wing politicians for their own selfish lust for power and wealth.
It needs controlling.
Trump’s 40,000 lies have been tweeted to his base. They are a stream of poison.
What Makes a Goon?
What makes a goon?
Strutting in uniforms
With body armour and masks.
What makes a goon?
Behind their shields
With their guns and batons.
What makes a goon?
Following orders
Mindlessly dispensing violence.
What makes a goon?
Arm of the State
Merchants of terror.
What makes a goon?
Beating heads
Stifling protest.
What makes a goon?
Teargas and bullets
Terror and power
What makes a goon?
Mindless zombies
Faceless thugs.
What makes a goon?
Expressionless
Emotionless.
What makes a goon?
Instruments of tyranny
Never questioning.
What makes a goon?
Unquestioning
Vehicles of oppression.
What makes anybody want to give up their individuality, their ability to reason, and become an enemy of the people?
Opher – 7.9.2020
Instruments of the State
In the middle of the night,
Snatching off crowded streets,
Storming through doors,
Crashing through windows,
Incarcerating,
Torturing,
Murdering
On behalf of the State.
Following orders,
Dispensing rough justice,
Intimidating,
Terrorising,
Hiding behind masks,
Safe within body armour,
Emotionally numb,
Minds blank,
Awaiting instruction.
Opher – 7.9.2020
