Category: Politics

Wake up Mr Johnson! There are now 3 of your MP’s (Desmond Swayne, Andrew Bridgen, Adam Afriyie) who are linked to those spreading covid conspiracy theories and campaigning for fewer restrictions. . Act decisively for once and take the whip away from them and get them out of the party. Not acting will enable apologists to argue that he is frightened of taking action in case the truth comes out. we are already beginning to see signs of a backlash against vaccination. In some ways the easy part has been accomplished reasonably well, although reports of lower levels of vaccination in BAME communities is concerning.

I am sure that Captain Sir Tom Moore was a very nice chap and his actions certainly inspired others and led to donations of over £30 million to NHS charities. However calls for a statue would seem a little over the top? I say this for humour, so do not over react, but what he did was walk round his garden a few times! (Paraphrasing James Corbyn-SPOTY talking about Dame Kelly Holmes who won a medal for running around in a circle twice!).

Freedom to refuse to be vaccinated is a right – of sorts. But as long as there is a viable population for the virus to survive, ‘and mutate’, there is no chance of returning to ‘normal’. And then there is the question of how often we will need to be vaccinated.

Yes that is how many of these cars costing between £100000 and £1 million have been registered in the UK last year. I know I am a socialist, but surely this is a green light for Government to introduce a wealth tax to cut the deficit. Just taking this money away would raise £2 billion. Ed Sheeran paid £28.2 million in tax last year, I wonder how many of the bankers, etc. in the city paid anyway near as much.

And another thought – I wonder how many rich people are still flying around the world?

Figures round here are NOT falling. The rate is constantly about the 200-250 /100000 mark. By my calculation the number of people who have tested positive for the virus in my 5 villages of Winscombe, Sandford, Churchill, Langford and Blagdon – (which total about 10000 people), is just over 100 in last 2 months or 1-2%. If this was equated to road accidents where most people were unharmed, but some died there would be absolute mayhem – but is it complacency or boredom that has creeped in. Ahh, the paper has just confirmed this conclusion (ONS).

What is wrong with these people? Raiding hospital wards and abusing NHS staff?

Freedom of speech and beliefs versus freedom to life a healthy life free from others calculated actions. The government should enact a law which states that ignorance is not a defence to a charge of knowingly putting a life at risk by ignoring Covid restrictions.

Anyone who has suffered from austerity of the past decade should be troubled by the way a conservative government has suddenly found billions to squander. Once upon a time we were astounded by the closure of public facilities, libraries, schools with class sizes above 35 etc. Not now. Test and trace has cost £12bn and has made little difference to the virus although many peoples bank balances must have benefited. Contracts handed out for PPE that were fraudulent are now being investigated.

Please Bozo do not relax rules yet. We need to bring down the infection levels to low levels let seen in the summer. How vaccines will affect the country is yet to be seen. As the jab is administered to younger age groups the % take up will be reduced (wrongly I believe).