Monday, June 1, 2020

Day 70

Lest we forget Cummings he did wrong he has to go.

Watching the scenes of protest in America says everything about their country. Seeing the reaction of the authorities and the aggressive way most deal with these protesters says it all. I am sure there are people and agitators taking advantage of the situation for their own ends but the strength of feeling about how Afro-Americans are treated by the police is not new and it seems the endemic racism within some police departments does not go away. Having a a President who is deliberately divisive and never prints or says anything to calm things down is a contributing factor to all this hatred. Trump loves it. I would suggest the current pandemic may have also added fuel to a very frustrated public, though this does not lessen the the point they are making. When your leader does not give a shit about the country he governs and people of ethnicity are regularly killed by the law, something has to change. Trump has to go and police have to be radically changed.

I’d like to congratulate the astronauts who left our planet today smartest thing anyone has done during this pandemic!

Monday 1st June. this started way back in March (too late) and here we are sun shining tempting those who cannot resist to ignore their responsibility to keep others safe and crowd together. Other non essential shops can open today and you know I can’t think of a single one that I want or need to go to! Never has the internet been more important for so many to purchase goods while they have been shut. We will witness retail being even further reduced and more and more stores will close. Retail has now changed forever. Retail parks will get an initial boost because people have been starved of going. Any pretence that the two metre rule (or is it 1.5 metres now?) being adhered too is fantasy, many will try to behave, just as many won’t or seem unable to but think of the places and situations where even the practicality of doing it is possible?

To those of you who defend our government or any government just remember every one of them is never above criticism or ridicule by the people. You may not like the criticism, you may believe it is unfair, perhaps your just as sure of the entrench view of those who oppose that which you support but  every government and leader must be held to account and scrutiny.

If you think this one is doing a good job despite the circumstances then you are entitled to that view, personally I do not and I strongly believe that Johnson is not fit to be PM and that Mr Cummings has to go and we should continue to say so loudly and I have every right to do so!!

Stay well




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