What a strange day. It feels as if we are on the cusp of a turning point but not quite there!!
The sun shone but it was windy. We walked into Driffield (about 4 miles round trip) for a coffee. A long way to walk for a coffee.
Friends can round to visit in the afternoon. The topic of conversation veered around from Rock Music to Boris Johnson.
I did a bit of editing of my Beefheart book – now on Page 135.
Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, whatever I did the mind kept coming back to Boris Johnson. How did such an inept, greedy entitled Eton public schoolboy rise to a position of total incompetence? How could people be taken in by such a lightweight clown??
He got Brexit done – but he negotiated such a bad deal that it is costing us an estimated £30 Billion a year!!
He got us through covid – but he had the worst death rate in Europe and the worst hit economy. Some leadership!! (Not to mention that we’re still in the midst of this pandemic – no matter what he says and how we act – it has gone berserk today!!)
He is off to Ukraine today in a show of strength!! Who knows what Putin will make of a scarecrow showing up on the battlefield? He’ll laugh!! The UK has become the laughing stock of the world. We’re led by Coco the clown!!
The display in the House of Commons yesterday was shameful!! We have a Prime Minister guilty of lying to the public, lying to the Queen and lying to the House – yet totally dishonourably refusing to resign. He resorted to flinging far-right propaganda lies at Keir Starmer, claimed the opposition were all on drugs and made a spectacle of himself.
He refused to answer any questions. ‘Were you are the parties?’ ‘You’ll have to wait for the report!’ For fuck’s sake! He must know if he was there or not!! It stinks.
Praise Ian Blackford. He called him the liar he is and said he’d lied to the House and was kicked out.
That was the moment when every other MP with any morality should have stood up, called him a liar and walked out. Johnson would have been left with his immoral sycophants.
That would have gone down in history – I AM SPARTACUS!!!
How long do we have to put up with immoral Tories????
This clown is once again promising the earth – he will lift a £billion of Brexit Red tape (that’d still leave £29 billion loss!!). He will personally stop Russia from invading Ukraine. He will do anything to keep in power. He’s a conman. Like a serial killer he’ll go on making the same mistakes until he’s finally dealt with!!
I will never fathom out how poor working-class people think these overprivileged Tory millionaires, who take from the poor and give to the rich, have their interests at heart! It is utterly illogical!!
So, yesterday, I could not believe the figures I was seeing. Covid cases jumped from 62,000 the day before to 847,371. That is a staggering 14 times jump!! We’ve never seen numbers like that ever!!. Close to a million people caught covid the day before.
They are telling us that the death rate is low – just 56.
They are telling us that Omicron is milder than thought.
They are telling us that they are adding in reinfections for the first time. – What the fuck has that got to do with it? You either have covid or you don’t. Does it matter if you’ve had it before?? They should have been counted anyway!!
847,000 more cases and they are pretending this pandemic is over.
Death rates lag two weeks or more. Let’s see if it’s over in two weeks time!! This lifting of restrictions is a political decision. It was done because Johnson thought it would make him popular!
Stay safe!!