The fun's just begun

With just the feintest of red lines below the strong one on my test kit yesterday, I felt well enough to go to work and prepare to finish the job which was cut short by illness about 9 days ago. If I was the religious sort, I would go to church and light a candle in gratitude for having survived. At my age and never having been vaccinated I admit that I was a little nervous when I saw the two red lines.

Well I am now back to my intolerant old self (as some of you have learned recently) and the sleeping curmudgeon is awake. All I will say about that is that I find it difficult to take advice from anyone who cannot be bothered to read a post before pontificating on whatever comes into their over-stuffed mind. Humility is not a pedant's strong point.

The highlight of this week for me was when Michael Gove went to Downing Street to tell Boris to resign, then got unceremoniously sacked himself. It just shows what fantasy worlds these people live in when they imagine they can get away with stabbing the future Prime Minister in the back only two years ago, then suggest that he move to one side to let them have a go in the post. That memory will stay with me forever and always bring a smile to my face.

I don't know whether or not this farce will make any difference to the gathering shit-storm which will hit our shores this winter. It's not as if Boris and his team of no-hopers have been making any preparations at all to mitigate the crisis whilst they were in office anyway, so lack of action now probably makes no difference. When Boris crows that he single-handedly saved millions of lives world-wide in the way he handled the pandemic, just treat it as another lie. What he and his friends did do was squander billions of pounds on useless PPI when the true heroes - the scientists who he had ignored until that point - were working flat-out on the vaccine and the logistics of administering it.

Boris is very good at squandering. As far as the Party goes, he squandered the absolute gift that was given to him in the form of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the opposition. How could anyone waste such gloriously golden opportunity handed to them on such a large silver platter, let alone the Prime Minister of Great Britain?

He then went on to squander the reluctant goodwill of all those safe Northern Labour seats by misinterpreting the situation as being a colossal mandate given by God through the will of the people. Try calling a general election now and see what happens.

Shiny Rishi shot off quickly, not to spend more time with his family but to spend a lot of money with  PR company making a vomit-inducing promotional video setting out all the reasons why he should have the job. In the clips I have heard (set to rousing music) I didn't hear any practical solutions or policies.

There are not many policies being given out in the manifestos I have heard to date. One woman candidate who makes Pritti Patel seem like a reasonable human being said that when she gets the job of Leader she will concentrate on eradicating 'cancel culture' and 'the woke brigade'. That's going to help, isn't it?