Just on Nine I slogged my weary way to Sainsburys this morning in 67%F of heat (that's about 19C to foreigners). Three days in a row the sun has shone, this, as you will realise, is a clear indication of a storm to follow.
At the supermarket I took a basket as always and perused the shop for the few items I needed. The picture above claims to be representative of the most popular trolley in supermarkets. I always take a basket, partly because these days I can only carry so much but also because it makes progress around the store much easier and quicker. To pass aged men with no idea what they are doing, bar obeying orders of 'she who must be obeyed,' and women with trolleys packed with expensive shopping most of which they could easily avoid, you require a basket. For many years this has speeded up the shopping trip. Certainly it can get heavy, but a well organised basket can carry a fair amount, at least that is what the cost at the checkout indicates to me! £20:18 for that lot? There again this is cheaper today because of the diet, without the cakes, beer and other fattening items omitted once again I am saving money.
Once again I noted the indifference to the checkout operators from those pedalling vaccines. There ought to have been an urgent requirement for such as these to be vaccinated first. These people meet the public daily, as indeed do postmen, bus drivers (several of whom died from the virus) and dustbin collectors alongside other council workers. We realise NHS workers and care staff ought to have been offered the 'jab' first, but how many received it? In Scotland they did do the care homes first, one good thing from Nicola, but how many missed out? It is 'unfortunate' that these other front line workers, who face us daily, are considered so unimportant.
We can ask here how many missed out taking the 'Jab' because they believed the anti-vax nonsense spouted by many who fell for conspiracy movements? Why do people think a virus would contain a bug that transmits your details to Bill Gates? He already has all your details through Microsoft, as indeed has Google, Facebook, and all sorts of other organisations, let alone those 'official' government departments that can look you up if required. Why believe the Bill Gates lie? Do you really think he needs to know about your boring life?
This I suppose belongs to the politicians need to polarise the world to advance their personal position. One of the oldest political motives, 'divide and rule,' this has been around since the dawn of time. How many have died by avoiding the 'jab' because of such polarisation?
One of the most obvious examples of 'Divide & Rule' is found here, with Rupert Murdoch. He, in all his grubby papers, along with the 'Daily Mail' and 'Daily Express,' have encouraged their readers to believe the country was flooded with immigrants, all the fault of the Labour Party, and that such immigrants were given priority over housing, benefits, and opportunites, all of which were being denied to the indigenous white 'working class' population.
This has worked.
In similar fashion lies re the EU has led to many Labour people voting to 'Leave' because they felt hard done by. However, the benefits regarding tax dodging for the owners of such papers was not made clear, or ign ored altogether. Now, a collapse of the UK economy which will hit the white, and indeed immigrant, population very hard indeed has arrived, will the Brexiteer white understand why he is laid off? Or will he blame the pandemic?
We see how successful 'Divide & Rule' has been. The areas of northern England, once industrial heartlands, now desert like places, has seen the Labour voting population not just die off but change their voting habits and support the new incoming Conservative member, why? Do they agree with Tory policies? Do they know what those policies are? This is highly unlikely, however, they have heard that the Tories will 'Control immigration,' and protect the local natives from a Muslim takeover.
That is all that was required.
Lies about Muslims, frequent in the 'Yellow Press,' re immigrants, mostly black, and the EU citizens flooding in also, (no comment ever made re the 3 million UK citizens in the EU by the way) all added up to a fear campaign that benfits the Tory party but not the voter.
The result of this lie, added to the inept situation in both the Conservative and Labour Parties has led to a feeble government since 2010. With no opposition bar the SNP who cannot have sufficient influence in the Hosue, and the dead Labour Party, there is nothing to stop the Tories doing whatever they wish. Add also the instability withing the party producing Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and we are left with a chaotic situation unsurpassed in UK history. It times of strife in the past serious politicians came to the fore, today none can be found.
I have just discovered what the amendments to the constituencies will mean if allowed to go through, a vast number of increased Tory seats, and Boris and his mob ruling for ever!
Glory?
