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Day 11 of 2022 : Little Bit Of Politics







As Ben Elton Would Say..



"..little bit of politics.."

I have been trying to avoid mentioning anything about the covid pandemic on here. Like many of us, I have obeyed the rules. For the last two years I have got my jabs-all three now-and reduced my social interactions to the absolute bare minimum. I have managed somehow to avoid caching covid, not had a single cold, sniffle in two years. I have done what the elected people told me to and done so without much complaint. I understand how pandemics work and they do not go away after a couple of months. It takes years, and we are going to have to live with this virus forevermore. At some point, I am going to take a bigger risk and go to an indoor event like a proper gig with lots of people.

I am going to have to prove that I am tripled jabbed, I may have to do a lateral flow test as well. I will follow all that because it is not a big deal, not something to take to the streets about and get angry. There are many, many other things to take to the streets about. The way our NHS is being gutted and sold off on the quiet, the blatant and brazen corruption going on in front of us.

The current Government make the early Georgian era corruption look like playschool. This lot have taken the money-grabbing, backroom deals to a whole new level. Even when caught red-handed they try to brazen it out. Owen Paterson attempted that even though members of his own party found him guilty, he ran to the PM and tried to get the rules changed. Luckily ensuing stench of this woke up parliament and they blocked it. As the result, Paterson loses his job and Tories the seat in By-Election. I guess there is some sort of Karma. If Paterson had taken his medicine he would still be there, no doubt wrangling money from other deals.

All this comes from the head down. Boris has spent his entire career lying and cheating. When caught he blunders about until he gets sacked. He has lost 3 jobs for not telling the truth. Will he get the sack from his current job? Never underestimate the Tories ability to get out of trouble. Sacrificing Bojo might be something they are contemplating.

What is that lefty alternative comedian for the 80's Ben Elton doing these days? Oh yea he's a Multi-Millionaire writing crap musicals

..Little bit of politics..

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