Macron stated, in response to the cry of liberty on the streets, “What is your freedom worth if you say to me ‘I do not want to be vaccinated’, but tomorrow you infect your fathers mother or me”.
EDUCATION
What has Williamson been doing, not helping sort out the exams or university entrance procedures, not amending the poorly thought out vocational education reforms, not preparing guidelines for schools to reopen safely in September. But now we know he has obviously been extremely busy handing out a tiny pot of money for a few schools to pilot Latin classes.
CYCLE AND WALK WAYS
Would the government please stop prefacing every initiative with a cost figure. It means nothing, especially when given to cronies. A £338 million package – what does that actually mean? For a motorway I would guess a maximum of 25 miles. What will the money be spent on – I suspect about half will go on surveys by think tanks!
DILEMNA
No jab, no job, no entry, etc. Public health versus personal freedom. Of course there needs to be a balance. I believe there must be alternatives. Perhaps compulsory mask wearing if not jabbed, although I suspect that those who have flouted the mask laws are also unjabbed. A hypothetical situation – a school with 100 teachers and 50 other staff, 3 refuse to be jabbed. How do the other 147 staff react? If one of the refuseniks is a support teacher could the class teacher refuse them admittance to the classroom? What about meetings – could they be barred? It will be a very divisive issue so solutions need to be found fast. If they were testing 3 times a week they maybe less likely to spread the virus than a double jabbed person!
LOBBIES
Time to abolish the lobbying system which favours the largest and richest companies. No more perks for M.P.s’ or civil servants. For example – transport investment. At the moment we can be sure that the lobbyists promoting motor transport and motorways and bypasses will receive £millions to support their cases. My alternative would be the creation of web sites for spending ideas where all organisations could submit their arguments online for all to see. Ministers and Parliament would have all the different opinions and the decisions made in clear view of the public.
BOOST FOR RNLI
Farage called the RNLI a taxi service for migrants – result, donations increase by 3000%. Then is compatriot on the shite TV channel slags off our Olympians by saying only gold medal winners are creditworthy. Another moron.
CLIMATE EMERGENCY
I have been thinking about the governments incompetence too much! The climate emergency, just like the first lockdown, requires all of us to do our bit at all levels of society. Governments can have a big input, but we should not, must not, rely on them to solve the issue. It is down to us as individuals first and foremost to do our bit. Then all companies and organisations need to do their bit. Local government has a major chance to prove its worth. The problem is bigger than Covid. It needs community action.
GET RID OF PRIVILEGE
So the Queen claims that the laws of the land do not apply to her – even those promoting the environment and improving the climate. 67 times in Scotland alone she has lobbied for herself, family and properties to be excluded from legislation. All for one, and one for all? Abolish this absurd ability for royal amendment before assent from the statute books.
CLIMATE CHANGE
I am hoping I do not regret writing this! Climate change is so important that governments must ignore atrocities; that may be happening in Myanmir, Western China; the financial wellbeing of MLC’s in a capitalist society; even personal freedoms; in the effort to halt the catastrophic tumble into climate chaos.
CRIME
Idiots! Playing to the mob. Chain gangs and more stop and search. Police chiefs and the Police Federation not consulted. More police being recruited but there will still be less than when the Tories started cutting therm in 2010. No mention of community resources for youth clubs and sporting/social venues.