Category: Politics

Not mine of course! But those required of a leader of a large wealthy Western Democracy. Lets have a list. Integrity, honesty, intelligence, diligence, reliability, decisiveness, to name but a few. Our government seems to have none of these, even between them! The British public seem to value charisma and communication skills much more highly. Perhaps that is why so many people are conned out of their life savings?

Two books I ought to read are Go Big – Ed Miliband, and Seven ways to Change the World – Gordon Brown. Both were considered by the shit press to have been incompetent, but how we need either of them, or even someone with half their intelligence to lead us know! I said I ought to read, rather than have read! My attention span has never been good for academic books! Maybe one at a time, chapter at a time, or even page at a time!

Why is the announcement about the future timetable for Covid restrictions being held at 6pm? It clashes with the Slovakia Poland game – perhaps he has put them on a new list?

The cabinet meeting was last night and with more leaks than a colander it has already been suggested that removing all restrictions will not happen for at least 5 weeks. Is it to give the Tory press time to concoct excuses to their readership whom they have been extorting to get out and party for the past month? Is it to protect the inadequate members of the Cabinet (just about all of them) from requests for media interviews, until they have had time to learn their lines. Lines that will deny that this is a prolonged lockdown and that really this is just another excuse to enjoy the sunshine.

Also bleating are business owners who claim to have spent thousands on preparations to open next week. Well all fool them, they had only to follow the stats and listenn to the experts to know that it was not looking good. Oh well, they probably do not believe the experts (as told not to by Johnson and Gove during the Brexit campaign).

And whilst on politics – what was Johnson doing taking his offspring to a meeting of world leaders? They must’ve been well pissed off at having to smile at Wilfred all the time. Maybe it was a diversionary tactic by Johnson to reduce opportunities to raise discussions about Brexit and Northern Ireland. None of the other leaders seemed to have brought their offspring along. There also seems to be a move to put Carrie at the centre of government as Trump did with his family. She should take a good look at how Melissa Obama did the second lady bit with aplomb and class. Perhaps she could set up and run a food bank, or grow some veg at number 10?

Incidentally where will Government Ministers be holidaying this year? Morally none of them should travel outside the UK

The raw stats for North Somerset are 25 cases per 100000, total in last week 54 which is up 36. 5% have had Covid, 79% have had first jab and 60% second jab. What the stats do not tell us is the age of people who have contracted the virus, nor hospitalisations. It would seem reasonable to expect the younger age groups who are not vaccinated to have highest number of cases. It would seem that the delta strain is much more contagious.

Johnson backs Gillian Keegan (Education Minister – amazingly) by refusing to correct her assertion that taking the knee was divisive. It does not take an Einstein to notice that racism is divisive. Such a shame that there are still so many racist twats in this country. The football authorities should be able to identify them, name and shame them, and ban them.

It is suggested that students should start paying loans back at a lower threshold of £19000. Already priced out of the housing market, having a high unemployment rate, the young are being penalised for COVID which did not really impact on their health. A more sensible approach would be to increase tax on pensioners receiving over £30000 (or whatever is needed to restore an equable relationship between the generations. After all most, like me have paid off their mortgages (which were minuscule compared to what is required today). At present the children of wealthy parents have the distinct advantage.

As knucklehead Johnson seems incredibly bad at Maths I thought I would point this out. Could we ask all politicians to take a lie detector test before elections.

The latest farce is Gove refusing to apologise regarding a contract awarded last year to cronies. A judge has found them guilty, but despite this they continue to deny responsibility. And later today we will see doormat Hancock denying that care homes had to accept untested patients from hospital, despite the evidence of numerous emails. Will he rely on the same excuse as last time “he was working very hard”. A phrase open to a lot of interpretation.

In many ways all is well in the world when national daily papers have anything about the royal family on them. Who gives a ****.