Category: Politics

SAGE recommends a 10 day circuit breaker, but the government says party on! Cases reached 78,610 yesterday, with 60% of cases in London being Omicron. Already I am seeing mask wearing falling – less than 50% at the shop this morning 6.30 -7.30 am.

I am monitoring covid stats for areas that concern me.

So far numbers have not increased here or my other areas. I will go back to a spreadsheet format.

Watching the HoC – seems that Labour benches are thin? Just checked and many Labour MP’s abstained – about 40. Whilst 8? voted against, mainly the very left wing.

So 70 nasty party MP’s are likely to either vote against or abstain on an issue of Public Health. Would these people have voted against legislation for seatbelts, using mobile phones whilst driving, drink driving, etc. Listening to James O’Brian discuss patriotic duty. Patriotism means doing the best for your country – not wrapping the flag around you or other false gestures.

is the control of the rich slipping? Probably not, but their control of most of the UK media outlets is becoming less significant. the circulation of papers has fallen massively. The politicians are desperate to control the BBC and sell off Channel 5.

“We will throw everything at Omicron” – as long as it is only vaccines. And even then we will water down the rules for a vaccine passport. Also an interesting amount of money @ £22 a shot! Schools are unaffected by Omicron apparently and do not need extra ventilation – where are the air quality testing kits? Regardless of covid I can list many classrooms that need better ventilation full stop – influenza, etc. and with supply teachers costing £180 a day it is worth schools investing in health measures to keep teachers safe (obviously these measures benefit all the students too).

I am going to start a new list of covid cases as it seems this government cannot be trusted. So data from 7 December.

It has become increasingly clear that our political system is not fit for purpose. The Tories are ripping the party apart with the rabid right wing undermining the centrist element, whilst the same is true of the Labour Party with the Corbyn left being marginalised.

So there will be a vote on the new restrictions next week with leading tories like Fox, Davis, McVey and Clark stating that they are unnecessary band too harsh. Meanwhile Scotland and Wales are considering even stronger rules.

Omicron variant likely to suck the fun out of Xmas. It is still hard to interpret the information coming out. predicted doubling time is 2.5 days at present. New cases is highest since January with deaths being constant’s at 120 per day. This last figure needs elaboration please – how many would normally die from influenza, and how many of these deaths had covid as a subsidiary cause?