…just NO.
NO – ‘back to normal’ won't do for our young people. We must do ‘better’.
NO - Boris Johnson is not king-of-the-world as per
his fantasies nor does he behave like a PM of the UK. In reality he is just the
Waffling Wanker of Westminster.
NO – we are not all in this together. The wealthy
and the poor are ‘in this together’ in the same way that a crocodile and a
wildebeest can be in a river ‘together’.
NO – it’s not ok if you were a rubbish company
before the pandemic, treating customers badly, to now preface every sentence
with “due to the pandemic”.
NO – its not ok for our public broadcaster still to
be passing off ‘he said/she said/they said as ‘news’.
NO – we don’t have to sacrifice our brains and
critical thinking and ability to analyse the truth on the altar of faux unity.
NO – covid has not shown what a fantastic ready-to-be-isolationist
nation we are, it has shown that Brexit is the worst idea since the chocolate
fire guard.
NO - it is no surprise if you use fear rather than
sensible information and good governance to cajole people into lockdown that
coming out of it is as much of a mess as going in.
NO – it's no surprise that companies have been
abusing the furlough system. They have been abusing the public purse for a long, long time (remember Carillion anyone?)
NO – there is not going to be a ‘big bounce back’ of the
economy because the people at the bottom have not been looked after and a lot
of businesses have taken the opportunity to sack 1000s of workers rather than
ride this out and will, no doubt, take cover of covid to set up elsewhere and
escape the – as yet ill-considered horrors of the as yet non-existent Brexit
deal (or no deal).
NO – there is no point gloating over how
embarrassingly badly the US has done under Trump or Brazil has done under
Bolsonaro (see blog 344) when we actually had a health service that could have/
should have coped better if it hadn’t been eviscerated for over a decade by The
Conservative party that gave us the Waffling
Wanker of Westminster.
NO – its not ok
Just NO
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On a VERY different note. If you have some little people in your life and you/they are a exhausted with the psychedelic headache that passes for children's TV - here is something a little gentler. I put these up for my grandchildren and a dozen or so others have enjoyed them too. So help yourself.
funny performed verse for young children
NB The summer festivals/events where I was performing adult stuff have obviously been cancelled but some events are already rescheduled for November. When I know about the adult stuff I will let you know...