We are so screwed. Time to say no more
The U.K. government is in disarray but this year they’re not going to fuck up our Christmas like they did last year
I almost never write anything political. It’s too easy to fall into testy arguments with folk I normally count as friends. This is an exception. Why? I’m sick and tired of our government and I’m determined that THIS year, the shitshow of idiots who count themselves as our leaders are not going to mess up our Christmas celebrations.
As many know, we have a large, rainbow family and a part of our moving house this year was so we could easily accommodate more family members. Even so, we have to do three ‘shifts’ to host everyone and plans are in place to cater for all their varied food restrictions - think halal, vegan etc.
All this could go to shit given the U.K. government is in disarray with no firm position on how we respond to the COVID-19 omicron variant at this holiday time.
As a result, I’ve decided that everyone who visits must prove a negative test inside 24 hours before arriving. In my mind it’s the only sane thing to do if we are to have a safe, family time together.
In the meantime, our already intermittent trips to the local bar and supermarket are off limits. Both get plenty of customers but I have no idea whether everyone who visits those spots acts responsibly. I’d like to think well of people but the last few years have proved that there is a section of our population who are immune (sic) to reason. And you don’t know who they are until you butt heads. I’d rather not take that risk.
I feel bad for these businesses because they serve our community really well and are incredibly friendly. I can only assume that in common with other similar venues, others will cancel plans to visit with the inevitable takings and profit knock on effect at a crucial time of the year. As I’m writing this there is no sign our government will provide relief for these essential trades. Instead, we get vagueness from a rudderless political organisation more concerned with the electability of its allegedly charismatic idiot of a Prime Minister rather than focusing on the needs of the British people as a whole.
That’s why I’m taking the steps I am. Tl;DR? Fuck you BoJo. Get out now before we see more unnecessary suffering.
P.S. Did I mention that we live in Amazon’s world?
See any credible politicians (or 'scientist' political operatives...) on the horizon *anywhere* in the western world? I don't. We are currently in world run by global surveillance capitalists, career oligarch/bureaucrat/lobbyist controlled politicians and their media, over layer after layer after layer of opaque bureaucracies that are not joined up and are often competing against themselves.
Terrible mess made worse by the undemocratic incompetence of overarching and unrealistic EU and DAVOS aspirations on behalf of a suspiciously small number of unelected 'leaders'.
Very hard to know what an individual can do to get back to the basic western tenets of government by, of and for the people, and what those people's role is in life in our post production line working class world.
Hear hear. Family gathering 27th. At a hotel venue, for lunch. We’ve insisted on LFT’s on the morning before we gather for lunch.