The Corona Diaries – Day 772

It’s been a nice day in Yorkshire. It has become warmer and the sun has been shining. Bodes well. The bushes are beginning to green and there is blossom bursting out. With the birds singing it felt like Spring was here.

I’ve been playing some Linton Kwesi Johnson, writing some poems and taking a walk up my hill. My middle some came round for a meal. You could almost forget that half the population is starving and freezing to death and a little distance away women and children are being blasted into fragments.

It’s a strange world that we have made for ourselves. Just think, that without greed and lust for power, what a fabulous place it could be! The minority dictate to the majority – or do they? Perhaps the majority of the majority would do the same as the minority if they had the chance? I’d like to think not.

Talking of greed and the lust for power………

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, Johnson thinks that he has survived Partygate, can continue playing at being Churchill and still has his golden ticket to a life of luxury with lots of freebies thrown in. His life is one long party.

Has Partygate really gone away? Is that possible? Just because there is a war going on in Ukraine that makes it alright to lie to everyone and break the law? Seemingly so. A useless lying clown can’t be replaced??

Possibly so. The trouble is that the Tories aren’t exactly overflowing with characters of charisma and intelligence. They are either tragically inbred to the point of imbecility or so loathsome that the public couldn’t even vote for them if they held their nose.

It raises the question as to why ordinary people keep voting for a party that only ever represents the interests of the top 5%?? It’s beyond me. It is true that there has often not been a great choice and all the other parties have shown themselves to have limitations – but even so!! I’d vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party (who would provide more intelligence and integrity) before I would ever vote for a bastion of the elite such as Johnson or that complete twit Rees-Mogg.

I think it’s either some kind of death-wish, absurdly misplaced hope, being totally brainwashed by the likes of the Mail and Express (Times, Telegraph and Sun), or a sense of knowing one’s place (ignorant peasants doffing their caps as the lord of the manor rides past). Take your pick. Some stupid people really do think that the aristocracy and public schoolboys were born to rule!

Incredible.

So it looks like these overgrown lying public schoolboys are going to be in charge a while longer. Unless the cost of living crisis (this year’s Tory special) causes too many starved frozen corpses to start piling up on the streets obstructing the Tory limos trying to get to their penthouses and superyachts. Then they’ll do something about it!

We’ll see how this year progresses. Johnson is getting away with murder. We’ll see how long that lasts. It may yet go pear-shaped. We have more MET fines to be handed out, then the Sue Gray report followed by the May elections. The Cost of Living crisis is only just starting. It could go horribly wrong for Johnson and his gang of exploiters. People are fickle. The question is – would Corbyn have done better?? Come on! We all know the answer to that. Wurzel Gummidge would have done better!! Noddy would have made a better job of things. Their record has been appalling. Of course Corbyn would have done better! Nobody could have been more immoral, corrupt or inept.

Over in Ukraine, things are still up in the air. The Russians are retreating while the Ukrainians are blowing them to pieces. There are claims that they are leaving mass graves behind full of executed civilians. They’ve been shot in the back of the head with hands tied behind them. There are increasing reports of rape and senseless shooting and loot.

Sounds more like war than a military manoeuvre doesn’t it?

So where do we go from here? Ukraine has attacked one site in Russia. Will they continue to do that? Will the Russians regroup and take the whole Donbas? Will they be kicked out of Ukraine? Will there be a peaceful solution? Has Putin got cancer? Will he flatten Odessa like he has done with Mariupol? Will they continue to attack the rest of Ukraine with missiles? Will the Russian people wake up? Will the Russian Generals be blamed for the pathetic failures? Will the Generals oust Putin? Will Putin escalate into a nuclear war??

We live in exciting times!! I could do with a lot less excitement!!

Meanwhile, the operation to save the BIG DOG TURD continues. Johnson is heralded as the saviour of the UK. He got Brexit done (and it’s only partially ruined the country) and has vanquished Covid (despite the fact that we’re still at record levels and have had around 180,000 deaths). He is now the lynchpin with which Putin is being defeated!! What a guy. He’d look good in a spandex Superman costume!

The pandemic is over. There were only 80,830 more cases yesterday!! That’s down!! That is all due to Johnson’s fabulous policies. He’s ended testing so that we no longer know the extent of the spread!! Wonderfull!! What genius!! If you don’t have any testing you do not have any positive tests; without any cases recorded the pandemic must be over!! Freedom Party!! It’s straight out of the Trump (who needs scientists and experts?) playbook. What a pair they would have made (or bring Farage in and they could have been the billion-dollar trio!).

Unfortunately, hospitalisation is shooting up 11.4% and deaths are up 17.5%. It’s OK. We’re just ignoring it! THE BIG DOG TURD is safe!!!

Summer is on it’s way. The warmth brings more ventilation, less aerosol droplets, more UV light and all those virus particles being dispersed, dried up and fried. Virus diseases always clear up in the Summer. It gives him space!

It’s still a race. Will the heat arrive before more nasty variants are spawned and the vaccine immunity wanes?? We’ll see? Will the Big Dog Turd survive the various crises he’s creating? We’ll see?

Stay safe!

The Corona Diaries – Day 771

It’s been very cold here. We went out in a big flurry of snow and drove to the coast. The sun came out and the temperature rose and it turned out cold but beautiful.

We visited Flamborough – the fabulous chalk cliffs with lighthouses and seals on the beach. Had a really nice walk!

I’m getting totally frustrated with this stupid Hotmail verification system. Nothing works and I can no longer get into my hotmail email account. So if you have emailed me recently sorry. I can neither get your email nor reply. It’s driving me mad. I’m sending all manner of stuff in and nothing works. There is nobody human to talk to!! Luckily for them there is no handy Microsoft office nearby or I’d be on a multiple homicide charge!!

I’ve set up a new email address. You can now contact me via opher.goodwin@gmail.com

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, I was listening to Jenrick trying to tell us that the clown we have in charge was the world’s lynchpin for dealing with Ukraine. I think he was obviously getting confused with words. He most probably meant that our hopeless lying clown needed lynching!

To call Johnson the lynchpin of anything is simply bizarre. He’s all mouth and no trousers! What comes out of his mouth is a torrent of promises and lies. What comes out of his actions is a mess of uselessness, broken promises and utterly hopeless fiascos. He tells us about world-beating apps, world-beating track and trace, oven-ready plans, £350 million a week savings, and ready-made social care policies. It’s all lies. The guy must have a diet of magic mushrooms; his metabolism produces LSD, he lives in a fantasy world of his own where everything he dreams up is instantly real. But none of it is true, nothing works and it’s all some utopian vision he has in his own head. A universe of lies!!

A lynchpin?????????

Here’s the silly twerp being snubbed by everyone at NATO – some lynchpin!!

The war in Ukraine is changing. The Russians are giving up on trying to take Kyiv and concentrating on the Donbas. We’ll see. They are bringing in conscripts and desperately dragging in mercenaries and reinforcements from wherever they can get them. Not sure that is going to create a motivated, cohesive fighting unit. The reports are that they have suffered 17,500 dead and at least twice that number wounded. How long can they sustain this level of loss? The Russian military has not covered itself with glory. Corruption and poor leadership have taken their toll. But it is in its nasty phase. When you’ve seen your friends shot and blown to pieces it makes you want revenge – hence the shooting and raping of civilians. War destroys minds.

What’s all this about a cancer specialist at Putin’s side? Is that just propaganda?? What to believe.

Partygate is smouldering. Will it burst into flames? Will the MET start giving out more penalties?? Will they give one to Blowjob and his Mrs?

It would already appear to me that enough has been done to prove Johnson lied to Parliament. He went to the House and stated quite clearly that there were no parties. He stated that all covid rules had been followed. Both of these are now clearly proven to be a lie. The police are given out fines for illegal parties so quite clearly laws were broken, and there were parties and covid rules were broken. We’ll see how many fines are eventually given. This reminds me of Trump. He broke law after law and nothing happens.

One rule for them another for us.

Rees-Mogg and other Tories are saying stupid things as usual – talking about the trivia of a little tinsel and cake when there’s a war going on. They miss the point. This isn’t about the triviality of him having a glass of wine, a piece of cake and a small party; this is about two things:

Firstly, he set the rules and immediately broke them. He arrogantly thought the rules did not apply to him. One rule for them; another for us! That is inexcusable!

Secondly, he lied to the country (repeatedly) and lied to the House. A man who cannot be trusted to tell the truth cannot lead the country – particularly in times of war!!

This is a man with no honour. Any other Prime Minister would have already resigned!

We have a president for kicking out Prime Ministers in times of War. In 1940, in the darkest time in the war with Germany, Chamberlain was kicked out and replaced by Churchill!!

Johnson needs to go. Abroad he is viewed as a liability and laughed at. Here two-thirds of the country think he’s incompetent. It makes you wonder about the intelligence and sanity of the other third!

I wish the Labour Party would find itself a charismatic leader. They should be 70 points clear.

In the pandemic that no longer exists there were an incredible 69,689 new cases yesterday. I say incredible because I was expecting none! The government has developed a new strategy to save the Big Dog Turd. They’ve stopped testing. Don’t test and you don’t have any positive cases, right? So to record nearly 70,000 cases is amazing! I know lots of people with it or just getting over it. The virus is rife and busy spawning variants.

The hospital cases are zooming up – from around 11,000 to 18,809. But the good news is that only 352 are in intensive care and only 191 died.

If we had a competent leader they would be talking to us about this, explaining the reasoning and treatments.

We haven’t got a competent leader. The one we’ve got would probably start erring and hrrrummmpphing, talking about Peppa Pig and telling us to drink bleak and shove UV probes up our anuses.

How did we get into this mess?

Stay safe, avoid nuclear missiles and don’t breathe indoors!!

It’ll soon be over!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 770

A cold day with an Arctic wind. I hobbled over the crunchy hailstones to reach the bins and thought better of going out for a walk. I stayed in, wrote some poems and read my Jasper Fforde. I was meant to be going off to the studio to record a podcast with my mate Mike but Dave was unwell so that didn’t happen. Heading off for a meal with friends this evening. A lazy day!! I hope this weather improves! It was 18 degrees a few days back!

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, the resident Wurzel the Liar is still in office. 20 fixed penalty notices have been served (for starters) so the police reckon that criminality occurred at Number 10. But still the clown denies this. He assures us that if he is served with a fixed penalty notice he will tell us – so that means he will not reveal a thing.

Out in Ukraine Putin is calling in reserves from Georgia, regathering his forces and signing up conscripts. The huge loss of troops and equipment in the war has left him looking like a school bully who has just been knocked cold by the smallest kid in the class. Everything is going wrong. Supposedly a superpower who is poised to take on the world they look more like a souffle that’s been taken out of the oven too soon. His cronies are feeding him misinformation, his troops are either rebelling or being shot to pieces and his equipment is being blown up or breaking down. Not the romp in the park that he thought it was going to be. He was under the impression that he’d sail into Ukraine, be welcomed by the populace, oust the neoNazi government and create a puppet state like he’s done with Belarus. Not quite!

The people of Ukraine knew better. They didn’t want fascist Putin putting them back under that oppressive regime. They didn’t want oppression and suppression. They didn’t think their government was neoNazi. They were prepared to fight to the death to kick the invaders out! They, with the help of Western lethal aid, are kicking the butt of the Russian bear.

India and China are still sitting on the fence. Brazil is another populist fascist state under the greedy Bolsonaro (lining his pockets) siding with fascism.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

The world’s in a mess. Communism descends into oppressive fascism being preyed on by a selfish, greedy elite. Democracy descends in unbridled capitalism with an exploited majority preyed on by a greedy elite.

Is there nowhere where fairness and equality exist? Is it a human flaw that we self-perpetuate unjust hierarchical systems no matter what we do? We force in democracy to give the people power and the elite undermine it by brainwashing the population and lying to them. We force revolutions and find that we replace one set of greedy monsters with another set that are even worse.

Everything has descended into fake news, propaganda and conspiracy. The web, purveyor of freedom, has been taken over by the people telling us everything is fake while feeding us that fake.

There’s no hope! Inequality and greed rule!

So, in this context, Putin is getting more desperate and trying to at least conquer some part of Ukraine to save face. He’s wasting countless billions pounding cities into dust in revenge on the ungrateful Ukrainians who rejected him as a saviour. He’s pumping out fake news and propaganda. The Russian public love him. He is fighting neoNazis in a liberating manoeuvre. The Ukrainians are flattening their own cities. People saying anything else are traitors facing 15 years in Siberia. Opposition, like Nalavny’s party, are being silenced (one way or another). Putin is using his secret police to keep order and crushing protest. He’s lying. He’s threatening the West with nuclear holocaust and he’s threatening to turn off the gas. His economy is crumbling (shutting off the gas won’t help that) and there’s no way out. Generals, who aren’t already killed, are being castigated, replaced or worse.

What does the future hold??

Meanwhile, we are in a Cost of Living Crisis the like of which we have not seen in modern times. Tory policies are all coming home to roost as global calamities highlight the sequence of corrupt and inept actions they have been gaily doing for 12 years. For twelve years they have been cutting public services, cutting wages and giving away huge numbers of billions to the wealthy. They have brought in a disastrous Brexit and wasted eye-watering amounts on mishandling Covid. They are raising taxes, refusing to tax the wealthy or energy companies, have been stealthily promoting privatisation (to put more money in their chums’ pockets), and creating massive inequality. Food banks and rough sleeping, poverty and starving kids. They call this Global Britain and talk of levelling up. It’s all a pack of lies. The crisis brought about by global changes and their own greed and ineptitude has resulted in a tsunami that is hitting all of us. What a disaster!

But – all I can say is – YOU VOTED FOR THESE GREEDY LYING SELFISH OVER-PRIVILEGED BASTARDS!! I saw them for what they are – Profiteers!!

So to the pandemic that used to be important but is now just a footnote. Big Dog Turd has been saved. It’s over! He’s the saviour!

Except that’s bollocks.

He removed all restrictions in order to gain popularity. Not a shred of science in it.

Last week saw a record number of 4.9 million people going down with Covid – 1.13 – a new record. I know of more people with it than ever before. It’s out of control, breeding variants and waiting a little longer until the vaccine immunity dwindles.

Good luck!

We’re going to need it!!

Stay safe!! Virus, starvation, freezing or holocaust – nice set of Tory choices!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 769

Last week it was temperatures of 18 degrees and T-shirts. Today I looked out and it was snow and subzero temperatures. I bet this cold snap has done huge damage to the fruit trees.

Needless to say, I stayed in and played some Woody Guthrie and read some Jasper Fforde. Isolation is OK. I’ve got quite used to not going out and not seeing too many people. I wrote a poem and played around with my blog.

It’s incredibly frustrating. I am still blocked from my hotmail email service. They want me to verify my account. It’s all done electronically. You can’t talk to anyone. You have to remember all the emails you’ve sent and write out exactly what you put as a subject. Who memories email addresses these days?? This is a nightmare. I bet I’ve got a number of important emails that I can’t access. There has to be a better system than this. If I set up a new account I’m going to lose a whole load of contacts. It’s driving me mad!!

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland we have the same bunch of denials.

Partygate – he did nothing wrong – despite the police fining everybody for attending multiple parties at his own flat and garden. He knew nothing about them despite the fact that he was there. All covid rules were obeyed – despite the fact that they weren’t and people are being fined.

What a liar!!

He refuses to accept responsibility or resign!

What a dishonourable clown!

There are no different rules for them than there are for us – despite the fact that there obviously are!

Arrogant overprivileged twat!!

It’s the same in the States. One new senator was describing how he was invited by the cocaine-snorting republican senators to attend sex orgies. It seems that the more righteous and morally indignant you appear the more morally corrupt you really are. It’s the hypocrisy that gets me – not the cocaine or sex. The Profumo affair should have told us all we need to know. Epstein and Prince Andrew should leave us in no doubt. These prim prudish, hard-hitting politicians and aristocracy are really into their sex and drugs. They make laws for us not them. They say one thing and do another!! Trump was the classic example – a more immoral man would be hard to find.

What is wrong with people believing in these creeps??

I noticed that Nigel Farage was due to make £15.7 million out of his shares in a Green Company. These people are utterly beyond contempt. They lie, abuse and exploit. How much has Farage taken from the Russians to get Brexit done? How much did he and Rees-Mogg make out of Brexit?? How much will Johnson walk away with?? Trump is reputed to have made $1.6 billion out of his presidency.

It’s the same the whole world over,
It’s the poor what gets the blame,
It’s the rich what gets the pleasure,
Isn’t it a blooming shame?

These are people who tell they are honest and they represent our interests!! They lie!!

The whole political system is corrupt!! The strings are being pulled by the obscenely rich. The promises, lobbying, donations, bungs, revolving doors and backhanders are beyond corrupt.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And the poor vote for those exploiting them!

The level of inequality under the Tories has grown and grown. It’s obscene. These people have no sense of justice and no conscience. They are profiteering in death. Brexit, Covid, Ukraine – they don’t care – anything to make a profit.

The whole establishment is rotten to the core!

The media is controlled and has become blatant propaganda.

I’m going back to reading my book in a minute.

Meanwhile, scum like Putin, who has been oppressing, suppressing, threatening and controlling, while skimming off billions for himself, is the epitome of a tyrant. Someone both Trump and Johnson admired. If they had their way they’d emulate too! They like oppression, suppression and lies.

So how’s the war going? We don’t know. We get tales of Russian soldiers crying, shooting their officers, sabotaging their equipment, shooting themselves in the leg and the next minute they are callously killing civilians and flattening cities. The Russian population, China, India and Brazil think it’s all NATO’s fault.

War is obscene.

The first casualty is always the truth.

We have Russian planes, equipped with nuclear missiles, flying into Swedish airspace. What’s that about?

Are we on the brink of nuclear war? Would that put the world cup in jeopardy?? Surely Strictly would still take place?

Of course, there’s not a murmur about the Russian money that has poured into the Tory Party; the Russian involvement in Brexit and funding of the Brexit Party, Boris Johnson’s partying or tennis matches with Oligarchs or him personally overturning security concerns to put Lebedev into the House of Lords. None of that’s important!

Meanwhile, in the nonexistent pandemic there were another 74,720 new cases yesterday with 192 and hospital cases up by 2,200. It’s OK the removal of restrictions was red meat to the gullible; the Big Dog Turd is secure!!

Good heavens!! How long can this inept clown struggle on?? He’ll be redecorating his gaffe next with diamond-studded carpets, solid gold doors and emerald windows. (Just like Putin’s palace!)

Stay Safe!! I’ve had enough!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 768

Horrible, cold and wet. Bring on Summer. I’m hibernating.

This morning I helped a friend publish her book and listened to some Bob Marley. This afternoon I’m going to put some wood on the fire and sit and read!! It feels more like winter!! I’m having a lazy day.

Outside in Coronaland, on the day the MET police started dishing out fines to law-breaking Tories, the Tories were having a big party! You couldn’t write it, could you?? This was a big thank you from the Big Dog Turd for saving his career so he could continue to become a lot richer!

They think we are all morons. They are right, we are! We allow these elite multimillionaires to keep conning us. I give up!!

So, the big question is: do we all just carry on as usual? As if nothing has happened?

The fact that fines have been issued tells us that laws have been broken. Has Johnson himself been given one? We are not being told! Does that matter? No!

On more than one occasion Johnson categorically stated to parliament and to the public that there were no parties and all covid rules were followed. We now know that not only were there many parties, and covid rules were blatantly not followed, but Johnson attended a number of them. So we have categorical proof that Johnson deliberately lied.

So, is it now considered alright for a Prime Minister to lie to parliament? Is it alright for him to lie to us?

Lying is now considered trivial.

Have we ever had a Prime Minister who is guilty of perennial lying and law-breaking?

It leaves one asking the question of what does it now take to get a resignation? We’ve had Johnson and his Ministers brazening it out through lying, law-breaking, sleazy second jobs, bullying staff, illegal lobbying, illegal bungs (in the form of donations, cash for peerages, cash for secret meetings, illegal VIP tendering, mismanagement of billions of pounds of public money and eye-watering incompetence.

Whereas a short while ago MPs were jailed for fiddling expenses – which seems to me to be trivial in comparison to the level of corruption we have seen in this government.

If Johnson had a shred of honour he would resign. He is a law-breaking liar! He is still denying criminality!! What a dishonourable twerp!!

If we look at the history of the government its record is shocking. It has been a twelve-year application of austerity for the poor and public servants while the bankers and wealthy have never had it so good.

I find it shocking that these Tories continue to pretend to be running the country for the benefit of all of us when in reality they are blatantly running it for the benefit of the wealthy.

They successfully hid the dire consequences of Brexit with covid. They are now hiding their incompetent law-breaking handling of covid behind the Ukrainian war.

We now have a massive cost of living crisis which is a direct result of their policies and they are telling us it is the result of global changes.

It isn’t.

Brexit is costing us £37 billion a year. They squandered £50 billion in illegally doshing out cash to their chums and bringing in useless, hugely expensive schemes such as Test and Trace and Covid Apps (which again put huge amounts of money to their friends and slimy brokers).

They are allowing power companies and oil companies to make tens of billions of pounds of excess profits.

They allow their MPs to continue earning vast sums for dubious lobbying and lucrative advisory roles. The role of running the country is considered by Tories as a secondary role. Making huge sums of money is their raison d’etre.

They have cut the NHS, Education and Public Servants to the bone and deliberately frozen their wages – deliberately creating poverty.

They have cut benefits for those at the bottom of the rung who most need it.

They have deliberately raised taxes and National Insurance that will hit the poor (at a time when tax loopholes allow those earning millions to avoid paying any taxes).

This cost of living crisis is a direct result of Tory policies. They do it deliberately. It is what the Tory Party was formed to do.

The Partygate lies are fundamental. It shows quite clearly that they really do believe that they are better than the rest of us. They do not have to follow the same rules as we do. They are above the law. They arrogantly feel superior and treat us like gullible fools.

The sad thing is that they are getting away with this!! They really do need locking up!!

Turning attention to the Covid pandemic that no longer exists (no more testing – much harder to get stats – no accurate stats) we find that there were another 81,280 new cases yesterday, hospital admission was up again and the deaths zoomed up to 304.

The great news is that the lying, lawbreaking Big Dog Turd is still your master! Doff your caps!!

Stay safe!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 767

A cold miserable day in Yorkshire – overcast and dull. We had friends round so with the fire lit it was cosy. The heat of conversation filled the room. I trust everybody noticed how much the whole world has improved?

I didn’t have time for my customary walk though I did have time to listen to a little Yardbirds to buck myself up!! Jeff Beck was a monster!!

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, the fiasco continues. It seems the clown wants to commit a mere £100 billion on setting up 7 nuclear power stations but Sunak is not so keen so there is a nuclear conflagration in Downing Street.

They are nuts. We don’t need nuclear with all the risks and dangers, the inability to store the waste. I think we’ve seen the dangers in Japan and Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Windscale. We’ve also seen in the Ukrainian war what a target they present for lunatic invaders. It’s like providing them with a nuclear bomb on your doorstep!! No. The obvious way to go to create energy security is:

Bring in planning laws to make all new houses energy efficient – proper insulation, triple glazing, heat pumps, solar panels, heat retrieval systems on all waste water.

Retrofit all housing with energy conservation as above (as much as possible).

Bring in massive solar energy and onshore/offshore windfarms schemes.

Build the tidal barrier schemes in Swansea, Hull, Ipswich and Bridgewater (predictable and regular).

Develop wave energy schemes (not so intermittent as solar and wind).

What we would have is a country free of oil, coal and gas, more less polluting and environmentally friendly and a scheme that would make us energy independent. Much cheaper and less polluting than nuclear. What’s not to like.

We now come to the rub on Partygate as the MET issued their fines to 150 people. They are not saying who to. That’s up to the individuals concerned to reveal they’ve been fined. That’s like asking a known liar to tell the truth.

As these fines have been issued it clearly demonstrates that these parties took place and hence Boris Johnson clearly lied to both the public and the House of Commons – not once but on a number of occasions.

This is not a matter of whether law-breaking took place. It is not a matter of the degree of law-breaking. It is not even about whether the Tories were being highly arrogant and believing there was one rule for us and another for them – that they were exempt from the very laws they made. This is far more important than any of those things. This is about the trustworthiness of the Prime Minister. A Prime Minister who lies and has no honour is not someone who can be trusted to run this country!

This is even more pertinent when it has to be taken into account that this dishonourable man has a long history of telling lies and behaving in a dishonourable, even illegal manner.

We have seen this cavalier attitude in the numerous lies during Brexit (over incredibly important matters such as the Northern Ireland situation and the ridiculous untrue claims on the side of his bus), during the proroguing of Parliament, through the sleaze involving donations to his redecoration, through the Russian connections to his party (and himself?), through his personal relationships and past jobs. The man is a dishonest perennial liar.

Not only that, but he has shown himself to be lazy, not up to speed and totally incompetent which has proved disastrous to so many during covid and to people such as Nazanin.

This man is totally unfit to hold any office – let alone the highest office in the land.

We now have this lying, lawbreaking, dishevelled clown as a leader at a time when we are being threatened with nuclear annihilation. Do we really think that a man who is widely seen as a joke by the rest of the world is capable of dealing with a cynical tyrant such as Putin? He’s likely to put his foot in it again and spark World War Three. Then he’d try and blame it on someone else!

If only the Tory Party had more integrity – but then they have been taken over by a greedy bunch of nationalist extremists spouting Trumpian populism!!

Heaven help us!!!

Meanwhile, plonker Rees-Mogg, who personally made millions out of Brexit, claims that there is no evidence of Brexit having damaged the economy – despite it costing us an estimated £37 billion a year!!

Rishi Sunak, one of the richest people in Britain, is still allowing the Oil Companies to walk away with record bonanzas of billions of pounds while the poorest in the country panic and all of us pick up the bill. He says he’ll look again in October for all those who haven’t frozen, starved or topped themselves. Then he’ll probable see if he can’t squeeze a little bit more out of them to give to the bankers. Seemingly the denizens of the Cayman Islands have a greater need than the ungrateful poor over here. Besides, no matter what the Tories do the people still vote for them!! They just direct the Express, Mail, Sun, Telegraph, Times and BBC to tell them what to believe! Easy!!

Now for attention to the pandemic that has mysteriously ceased to exist. No news coverage. No testing. No restrictions. But we are far from no cases or deaths!! Despite operation Save the Big Dog Turd we are in a rapidly worsening situation. Yesterday there were 215,000 new cases with 218 deaths. Hospital entries have gone up to 17,354.

But this is no longer of any significance. We are free!! Big Dog Turd has been saved!! The removal of restrictions was red meat to the gullible!! Hoooraaaayyy!!!!

The emergence of two new strains is nothing to worry about!!

The threat of nuclear war is nothing to worry about!!

The hugely rising cost of fuel, energy, food and goods is nothing to worry about!!

The rising inflation and stagnating wages is nothing to worry about!!

Everything is hunk dory in Big Dog Turd Land!! He is safe!! Putin and his Russian friends have saved his bacon!!

Stay safe!! We’re in Global Britain!! World-Beating!! THe clown has another oven-ready plan!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 765

A fraught day today. I had to go into Hull to see a surgeon about my back. I sneezed while putting a pile of plates into a low cupboard and herniated two discs. They haven’t healed and over the last two years, I’ve been having problems resulting in a meeting with the neurologist. (For all my American followers – all completely free, speedy and thorough – doctor’s checks – MRI scan and possible surgery – all free).

The consultant was really thorough – full physical check, reflexes and questioning. It appears that surgery is not necessary……. yet!! Aaaahh the ageing process – what a pain!! Never thought I’d get this old but now I’m here I find there is still much to do and appreciate. I haven’t reached the point where I’m bored with it!! Here’s to life in a wondrous universe!! Long may it continue!!

Unfortunately, the train was cancelled (I wish we’d voted Corbyn in and nationalised the bloody railways!!) so I had to rush home and drive in. Made me late for my appointment but he still saw me. He was a very friendly Pakistani doctor – brilliant and thorough. So much for Brexit and xenophobia. We’ve driven out lots of expert help just like this guy. Madness. Stuff your hostile environment and isolation!

I got home and have been listening to some Fugs and writing some poems. Usual crap!!

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, Putin is playing his nuclear card, trying to keep the world at bay while he uses his barbaric power to batter Ukraine into submission. The world seems a far more dangerous place. The sooner the Russian people wake up to the propaganda they are being fed, the better.

Mind you, the sooner the UK and US people wake u[p to the propaganda they are being fed the better. Trump was a master at lies and fake news and Johnson’s much the same (on a smaller scale). How can these wealthy, uncaring useless pillocks convince poor people that they understand their problems is utterly beyond me. This pair of pillocks (along with Putin, Erdogan, Oban, Bolsonaro and the other potential despots) are using their power to exploit and rip us all off. They are a populist bunch of useless self-servers. What hope is there??

What a world we are creating!!!

At least Putin has exposed the whole corrupt nature of how power and greed works!!

Putin is sending the ethnic minorities and conscripts into the front line as cannon fodder. He doesn’t give a shit. It’s all about him.

We have Johnson posing and seeking out photo ops, hoping that it will deflect from his law-breaking, lying and incompetence (which, sadly seems to be working with the segment of morons who are taken in by it).

The war – I wonder just how this is going to end:

a negotiated settlement with Russian troops withdrawing? (Only if Ukraine continues to inflict huge losses on the Russians).

A negotiated settlement with Ukraine promising to stay neutral and give up the Donbas and Crimea.

Ukraine kicking the Russians out.

Russia taking the whole of Ukraine through sheer force.

A Third Word War.

Nuclear destruction.

Russia taking half of Ukraine and forcing a split.

All up for grabs in this horrendous war. Putin has already lost. He has demonstrated that his army is a joke. The yes-man (from fear) has provided him with misinformation and corruoption has undermined his army as a fighting force (along with a lack of morale). He’ll probably pursue it as far as he can and hope that the West doesn’t call his nuclear bluff.

As for Biden – he’s demonstrated that he’s too old for this. His heart is in the right place but he’s making too many gaffes. We need someone younger and more competent. Though, thank heavens that we don’t have Putin-loving Trump! They’d be setting up a coalition with Kim Yong-Un to take over the whole world!! Joint tyrantship!!

I notice that both Trump and Johnson, who have lots of relationships with Putin and the Oligarchs, are trying to distance themselves. Both have millions of pounds involved. I notice the Tory Party isn’t keen on paying back the millions they have taken in from Putin and his mob. Corruption speaks loudly to me!!

These populists have been using Putin as a role model!!

So, back to the pandemic that no longer exists – Big Dog Turd is still pretending to be Churchill, being snubbed by the rest of the world and widely seen as a shambling clown, a joke, but (despite Partygate, lies, incompetence and stupidity) is still in power!! Incredibly about a third of the country still think this ridiculous twerp is doing a good job!! Just shows!!

Right now, in between posing for photo ops in various costumes, our leader is currently hiding in a fridge in order to avoid being asked embarrassing questions. Mind you, the media (controlled by the Tories) are not likely to press him too hard in case it ends up with the Tories out of office. They wouldn’t want that, would they?

Starmer is not doing a job! They are getting away with murder.

Yesterday there were a staggering 215,001 new cases, with deaths – 212 – up 27%!! Hospital patients were up 27%. We’re running at a million cases a week! There are two new variants!! Yippeee! We’ve beaten covid!! Hooray for the clown!!

Stay safe!! I’m considering emigrating.

The Corona Diaries Day 764

It’s been noticeably cooler today with a cloudy start and I’ve been really pissed off all day. I didn’t even go for a walk. First we have this change to British Summer Time – and they nick an hour off you. It always plays havoc with my biological clock. It’s like jet lag without the fun of going anywhere. It always takes me days to adjust. Self-imposed stupidity.

Why do we do these silly things?

Then there is the case of my emails!

Modern technology – great when it works and really a pain the arse when it doesn’t.

I’ve spent hours today trying to find a way to get back into my emails – without any success.

I received an email a number of days back telling me that there was suspicious activity. Some Egyptians were trying to get into my account. they wanted me to verify my account. I ignored it. I thought it was a phishing scam. Then I found myself blocked and could not access my emails. I had to verify my account. No problem I thought. How wrong can you be. It’s impossible.

You have to give loads of personal details and they want you to put down all the emails you’ve sent, the email addresses and subject. Who the hell remembers all that? I don’t write out or store other peoples’ email. My computer stores them. I can’t remember exactly what I put as the subject on emails I sent days before. So I’ve spent a few hours trying. You’re only allowed 2 attempts a day!!

It’s fifty times easier to access my bloody bank account!!!

There is nobody you can contact!! There are no operational phone links or internet links with a human!! It’s not good for my blood pressure.

Just to add to the annoyance I keep getting this infuriating pop-up from McAfee trying to sell me their antivirus product and telling me my computer is riddled with viruses. The main fucking virus is their sodding pop-up!

So I’ve been trying to forget by reading some Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels) and playing some Dylan. It’s not working!!

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, we still have a stupid dolt of a scarecrow masquerading as a PM and Putin continues to threaten a World War and flatten Ukraine! Makes my problems look a trifling small!

So in the Big Dog Turd operation, where stats are guesswork now, the cases of coronavirus are surging -0 another 77,673 new cases yesterday (a pinch of salt) with 172 more deaths and a rising hospital rate which they are not telling us about. All data is being suppressed along with testing. The pandemic is over!!

Die quietly – order of the Big Dog Turd!!

Propaganda is as bad as Russia!

Stay safe!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 762

Summer’s here!! Or at least it feels as if it is – clear blue skies, hot sun and temperatures of 18 degrees. We took a walk into Driffield to have a coffee and scone!! Very Rock ‘n’ Roll!!

Back home I’ve been listening to some Roy Harper – which took me on a time machine back to my youth. Where have all these years gone?

This afternoon I’ve been recording a podcast with my mate Mike – Rock Music and our wasted youth. Very enjoyable messing around in the studio. We’ll see what comes of it all.

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, the Tories are being castigated for just looking after the rich. I can’t see why people are surprised. That’s precisely what the Tories were created to do and what they have consistently done every time they are in power – they cut all public services and rob the poor so they can give big tax cuts to the wealthy. They then tell us that this is brilliant because it stimulates the economy. Why should anybody be surprised?? They are merely doing what they were set up to do!!

It’s the same as Trump. Why on earth do poor people think that multimillionaires have their interests at heart? They got rich by exploiting people, cheating and lying.

Speaking of lying, wasn’t it embarrassing to see Johnson at NATO looking like a shambling wreck and being shunned by the other leaders? They are laughing at him – living in Brexit La-La land. How can anybody take him seriously?

I had to top the car up today. In the supermarket the price per litre was £1.69p. So much for Sunak’s 5p cut. The oil companies have never had it so good – neither has the government. With the higher costs they are raking in the extra VAT. It used to be £1.31 a short while back.

There was nothing for schools and the NHS in the budget – heaven knows how they are going to manage with the higher costs.

The cost of living crisis is a monster. Not only the petrol, its food, energy and everything. My gas and electricity more than doubled and is due to go up again. How did France manage to keep it down to 5%??

Of course, all this is nothing to do with Brexit. That hasn’t added costs. The shortages of HGV drivers and veg pickers haven’t put prices up. The delays, extra red tape and tariffs haven’t put prices up! It’s global.

Boris Johnson dances a jig. He’s in league with the devil. He successfully hid Brexit behind covid, covid behind partygate, partygate behind the MET and now the war is covering all his sleaze and incompetence. He’s getting away with murder!!

How stupid are we? How much more incompetence, waste, sleaze, lying, law-breaking and corruption can he wriggle out of??

£4 billion written off from stupid loans to nonexistent companies. Billions of pounds of useless PPE sitting in containers. Tories back to merrily doing second jobs – illegal lobbying, money for peerages and cash for meetings.

There’s a conspiracy isn’t there? The media are covering it all up. We’re being fed crap.

Why isn’t the Tory/Trump Russian connection splashed on every front page?

Trump is guilty of many felonies but they will all mysteriously disappear just like all Johnson’s lies, law-breaking and corruption.

We’ve been taken over by a right-wing coup!! Starmer is as solid as a blancmange. Labour should be out of sight – not just 3 points ahead!

Then we have Putin and the war. The Ukrainians are taking back territory as the Russian army falls apart. The Kremlin is also falling apart.

‘Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has not been seen for 13 days amid claims he has ‘heart problems’ just as reports suggest Putin held him responsible for the invasion’s failure so far. Alongside this, Anatoly Chubais, the man who gave Putin his first job in the Kremlin, resigned and fled Russia in dramatic fashion, reportedly with the intention of never returning, over his opposition to the war.’

Putin ups the ante by threatening all-out nuclear war. Mind you, if his missiles are as reliable as the rest of his military equipment we won’t have much to fear. They’ll probably blow themselves up.

Meanwhile, they pound Ukrainian cities into dust from long range with missiles and bombs. How can that not be a war crime??

So this is what Putin describes as liberating the Ukrainians from a neo-fascist government. The Ukrainians, from their determined oppositions, seem incredibly ungrateful. They are killing his troops by the thousand – up to 15,000 killed so far with twice that number injured. Some of them are shooting themselves in the leg so they can get out of there. So Putin declares that they will be liberated alive or dead!! Right now he’s preferring the dead option. Reminds me of the Fugs song – ‘Kill For Peace’.

Who knows where this is going. Putin is sacking his advisors and Generals and in a bit of a paddy. Enough to press the button? Enough to go out in a blistering rage with his full arsenal of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons? Maybe we should send in Blair and Hans Blick to have a look?? They might actually find some.

Or will sanity prevail??

Will there be a settlement and withdrawal coming out of the talks?

Will the Generals or Oligarchs oust Putin?

Will someone give him an untimely little accident?

Will the Russian people wake up?? Surely the massive destruction of the Ukrainian cities can be suppressed forever? The internet cannot be blocked. Phones share images. The body bags tell their story. The wounded soldiers will tell people what is happening. Putin can’t hide up the enormity of the crime forever. When they realise they are being lied to will they rise up?

We’ll see.

Meanwhile, Operation Save The Big Dog Turd continues. Ne’ere a word is said about the pandemic that no longer exists! Johnson has defeated covid!! We are free!! They were planning Freedom Day!!

Unfortunately, as with all things said by Tories, it’s a pile of bollocks.

Yesterday the covid cases rose to 101,000 with another 159 deaths and hospital cases rising to 15,397. Does that look like over to you?

Without restrictions the stupid are going into work with covid and spreading it. Those with mild cases are spreading it to the vulnerable.

To hell with long covid blighting lives or the breeding ground for nasty variants – we are gung-ho for herd immunity!! Even if that doesn’t work! We have to learn to live with death and disability!! Keep voting Tory!!

The government refuses to talk about covid. There is no testing. There is no need for distancing and masks. Who needs science. All hail Johnson – the Big Dog Turd !!! Red Meat to the electorate!!

Stay safe – the whole world is in the hands of clowns, morons and psychopaths!! Nothing changes!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 761

A beautiful sunny day in Yorkshire – blue skies, warm and little breeze. The slight southerly breeze was quite welcome when I took my walk up my hill. I could detect a little greening of the barren bushes as the warmth sent the say flowing – but perhaps that was just the sunlight shining on the algae and lichen that covered the bark.

To the sounds of birdsong, a woodpecker hammering in the copse and gunfire (as the locals shoot anything that moves) I had a pleasant stroll. That gunfire always angers me. For the wildlife every day is like the siege of Mariupol. Why do these people have to kill things??

I know, I’ve heard all the arguments about keeping the pesky pigeons, rabbits and crows down because they take over. I don’t buy it. These people are intent on rearing pheasants for rich toffs to shoot. They call it sport. It means that they spend their time trying to kill anything that either preys on their stupid birds (you don’t get anything much more stupid than a pheasant) or competes with them – ie. anything that moves!

I’m still slightly muzzy, a little tired and a bit sinusy, but I’m largely over covid!!

Back home I’ve been reading Dave Volek’s novella about his EDG new political system set in a Native American community. Greatly enjoyed it.

I was also playing Safe As Milk – the debut album from Captain Beefheart – what a superb monster of an album it was (and is). Took me back to being 18 again (easily done – I never grow up).

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, Rishi Sunak is blotting his copybook. Instead of doing anything to help the poor in the face of this unprecedented crisis of a cost of living he has produced a Fuck You budget that favours the rich and does nothing to address the issues.

A 5p cut in fuel tax when petrol has gone up 30p isn’t going to help much. He’s allowed the oil companies to continue their multibillion-pound bonanza, not taxed the rich, who have been profiteering away, not addressed the public sector, education, NHS, local authorities, who are being driven into the ground, done nothing to address the energy providers who are giving enormous dividends to their shareholders while fleecing us, not even acknowledged the soaring food and goods increases that are due to their stupid Brexit deal (though we’re not allowed to mention that).

All told we have inflation raging, salaries lagging, energy bills going berserk, food bills shooting up and he doesn’t give a stuff.

Many people are absolutely desperate. They don’t know how they can feed and clothe their kids.

Well – I find myself thinking, more fool them. They voted for this greedy bunch of lying profiteers and self-servers. How did they really believe that a bunch of sleazy multimillionaires would have their interests at heart? History shows us clearly that they say stuff to get elected then give all the cash to their chums – which is precisely what they’ve been doing.

If you vote for greedy millionaires then don’t be surprised that they’ll do what they always do – and give away as little as they can possibly get away with to ordinary people. All they care about are the top 5%.

Just think – if they had voted for Corbyn the energy sector would have been nationalised and restricted to a 5% increase as in France!! We wouldn’t have had Brexit costing us £37 billion a year, putting up prices, and people like Rees-Mogg would have been properly taxed on the millions he’s been stashing away.

It’s a hard lesson. It’s always best to vote for people who understand you, represent you and have your interests at heart.

Sunak is raising all the taxes and National Insurance so that he can bribe everyone before the next election. Tories think we are all stupid with the intellect of a goldfish – and they’ve been proved right most times!

He reckons he doesn’t have to do anything about the massive energy hikes because Summer is nearly here and nobody will be freezing until next Autumn. Ho Ho Ho. Eat cold bread (if you can afford it).

Then we have the crocodile tears shed for the P&O sacked mariners – and it turns out that the Tories were told in advance but only started bleating when there was public outrage!!

It’s like watching Vlad the Impaler pretending to sympathise with his next victim.

Talking of Vlad, Vladimir Putin isn’t doing too well is he? His offensive is stalled, everything is either breaking down, running out of fuel, being abandoned, blown up or captured. Some estimates put his troop losses as high as 15,000. He’s lost Generals and just had a warship blown up. So much for a fearsome superpower. It’s worse than watching the USA in Afghanistan. Many of his soldiers have frostbite, no food and no ammo. They are crying. The Ukrainians are pushing them back in many areas. They do not have air superiority and have not taken a single city following four weeks of heavy fighting. They’ve had to bring in mercenaries and have taken to pounding cities like Mariupol into rubble. But still they can’t take it!!

Who would have thought that at the beginning?

The Ukrainians are being rearmed with missiles (including antiship missiles) and antitank weapons. There seems to be a growing belief that they can actually win this war and kick Putin’s ramshackle army out!!

Putin might chuck more stuff in. He has more resources, but no matter what, he’s already lost.

The question is what will happen now?? Out of pique will he destroy Ukraine with chemical and biological weapons like he’s done in Syria? Will he resort to nukes? Will the Russian people (once the body bags start coming back, the soldiers’ tales from the front tell the lie to the propaganda, the internet spreads the horror of what they have done to places like Mariupol) rise up and oust him? Will the Oligarchs, hit by these unprecedented sanctions, kick him out? Or will the military rebel? Will he be assassinated? Or will he continue to oppress and tyrannise!!

Remember Navalny!!!

What times we live in!!

Everything goes in cycles. We’ve just had the time of despots, tyrants and populists promoting fear and hate, creating division and pushing hard-line nationalism. It’s time for a change – a dose of compassion, empathy, cooperation, fellowship and togetherness.

It would be nice to see the likes of Bolsonaro, Johnson and Trump getting their arses kicked. I notice that the chief prosecutor of Trump has just resigned with a parting shot saying that they have enough evidence to prosecute Trump on many felonies! They need to lock the lying crook up (along with his obnoxious offspring and relatives – a bunch of evil crooks). So why did he resign? Because the New York chickenshit DA refuses to press ahead??

How have the American people allowed themselves to be so fooled for so long?? Trump is the biggest crook on the planet! His Russian ties should be enough of a clue!!

So, in the pandemic that no longer exists in order to save Big Dog Turd, the covid rates are shooting up – there were another 103,000 cases yesterday with another 196 deaths and hospital cases on an upward trajectory at over 15,000. Scientists are predicting new and nastier variants as we stoke the virus breeding grounds!!

Don’t worry. It’s all in hand. Johnson is still in office. Everything’s fine!!

Enjoy your ventilators!!