28th January 2021
So Schools are safe are they Johnson? Moron!!
Yesterday I watched and listened to Johnson’s tired old diatribe about Starmer not admitting that Schools are safe rather than actually answer the questions put to him. He conveniently forgot to mention that he’s keeping them closed and that he still hasn’t got a plan to re-open them.
More importantly he completely ignores the fact that Schools are not safe from Covid-19. Yes the disease seems to leave little ones alone, thank heavens, but kids mix with School staff and family and spread it all about. I can reinforce this assertion quite easily – My youngest sister Kathy is a Teaching Assistant at Medlock Primary School in Manchester and I got a text message from her yesterday afternoon telling me that she and eleven of her colleagues have all tested positive for Covid-19! I know how seriously the staff here have taken all Covid-19 precautions – the School takes its children from a massively diverse ethnic mix who predominantly all live on a once Manchester City Council housing estate, now transferred to a social housing organisation. Kathy and my nephew Greg are both vulnerable so brother-in-law Dave has always ensured the best of safety precautions in the home. To add to the familial concern is that her eldest son James, also a Teaching Assistant in a Manchester Primary School and his partner Janine have also both tested positive for the virus.
So, Prime Minister, if you are reading this, please tell me again that Schools are safe environments.
With the death toll from Covid-19 now exceeding the 100,000 mark – all of which I put down to Johnson and his Cabinet of all the Cretins – why the rush to put potentially thousands of others at risk and why mock Starmer for suggesting using the half-term holiday to vaccinate all School staff?
Schools need to be safe for everyone involved, give the protection the vaccine seems to promise to all staff and then they and parents will have less to worry about, easing the burden for many. Similarly all Health and Care workers. Staffing numbers in both these areas have been massively impacted because of the virus, surely protecting them and so increasing the numbers who can work safely makes sense? Johnson accuses Starmer of playing politics (which is actually something I would like to see him start doing and really go for Johnson’s throat) when it is him who is playing games.
The man is not fit for any office, never mind the highest office in the land.
The latest figures (below, from 27th January 2021) show an appalling increase in deaths, with over half of them occurring since November last. It didn’t need an expert to see that all the decisions taken by Government over late Spring and Summer last year were going to bite back hard. If my poor excuse for a brain knew it, without the expert advice of the Government scientists, SAGE etc. to help, why did it all go wrong? Was the advice wrong? Was the advice ignored?? Johnson has been doing his best to avoid being held to account, witness his dodging yesterday at PMQ’s – he’s right to be nervous of this can of worms because, as he’s fond of saying, he’s responsible. I’ve made my thoughts about the lies, deceit, cronyism and corruption – people need to be prosecuted and imprisoned – such wilful disregard and criminality needs to be stamped out – the Yanks have picked up that nettle by starting impeachment proceedings against the orange blob, maybe the UK (while we still have one) could do something similar to the blonde yob and his cohort of cronies? Peut etre as they say over here.
And I’ll ask again – WHERE IS THE ANGER, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE. Over 100,000 people DEAD – the population of town such as my home town Stockport.
Meanwhile Johnson is off up to Scotland waving the Union Jack for all it’s worth. Is he really that thick that he can’t see that the damage is done? Again I’m banging a worn out drum here – Brexit totally f####d the future of the United Kingdom and not even Starmer’s promise of Constitutional reform will repair it. The SNP with a manifesto promise of another Independence referendum will hoover up the Scottish Parliament elections in May and the Tories will be unable to resist the will of the Scots. The rest, as they say, will be history and then watch the dominoes tumble. Northern Ireland will join Eire and there will be a backlash in Wales, as they sit back and witness Northern Ireland back in the EU as apart of Eire and Scotland enjoying a new Association with the EU.
I have wondered just how Scotland would cope as an independent country, without the financial support of the UK but then I’ve looked at how countries such as Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have grown within the EU, economically and socially.
Latvia has a population of around 1,900,000, Estonia around 1,400,000 and Lithuania 2,700,000 – a total of somewhere around 5,000,000. Scotland comes in at something like 5,460,000 so from an economic potential per head of population basis I’d guess that they will be able to more than hold their own and benefit from EU subsidies.
Wales has a population of 3,600,000 and if you add Northern Ireland’s 1,900,000 or so to Eire’s 4,900,000 you can see that population sizes will not be a problem post-UK disintegration.
The writing is on the wall I’m afraid to say.
Brexit will ultimately have a lot to answer for and the truth to that is beginning to be felt by UK businesses. It’s a strange position where government experts in the Department of whatever it’s called advising business to set up operations in Europe to avoid the customs and VAT costs – at whatever monetary cost and job losses in the UK. So that’s the fishing industry sacrificed, EU exporting businesses sacrificed and the motor industry has recorded its worst performance for decades – and then there’s the UK/EU squabble over Covid-19 vaccines. Again another thing that will not end well.
There’s so much going on at the moment I’m struggling to keep up – so I’ll end it here for now.
Please all – please stay home where you can, stay safe, keep all those you come into contact with safe and save the NHS.
Love to all
Jem