The High Street struggles again. But it doesn't require a genius to know who won't be: 'sir' Philip Green. He'll be seeing out the pandemic from the safety of his yacht having played the system for years. Wealth now insulating him from the virus, ostensibly through a wall of the working class. What's left will be so weak relative to the drugs he, like Trump, can afford to inject through private medical services so private they'd make even the Bionic Man would rust in envy. In short, he'll survive. Metastasising as capitalism realigns itself. Even if it doesn't survive, he's old enough that he won't care.
Ministers have gotten themselves into a pickle over what constitutes a substantial meal, the vague term it uses to justify pub sales of alcohol and thus keep customers inside. This is the worst place to be for the virus as it spreads much easier. So a substantial meal, with the windows wide open and everyone sat in their coats like the court of Mr Freeze (obligatory Batman reference, right there).
They just can't make up their minds; corrupt ex-housing minster and lackey of porn barons, Robjert Jenrick, claimed a Cornish was OK, as long as it had a 'side' (dish, presumably). While archcunt Michael 'the bell curve' Gove favours a Scotch Egg, possibly two.
So that's cleared that up then. By all means get loaded, go to the pub, risk yours and everyone else's health. All it will cost you is a coiuple of quid extra for a pair of breadcrumb-entombed eggs. Feel free to feed them to the dog and drink yourself silly. What a joke. Good to see them taking it seriously then.
Today is a very special day for one lucky young go-getter. We'll call him Sir Keir Starmer, to protect his real name. He's decided that, with less than 48 hours before the current lockdown ends, he'll have the Labour party abstain on the vote to decide what follows. I'm not sure what the alternative is; if the government loses the vote I don't know who wins. No one. That's been the tragedy all along. But it makes no sense to me without an alternative because just taking us back to where we are all but guarantees another lockdown.
Look, Johnson is a clown. It's easy to point at the clown and laugh. That's their job. Starmer can do that, we all can. Johnson doesn't know what he's doing. But this tactically is a massive error. It will look bad and enable simple Tory criticism; the kind that cuts through. "Look he's failed to support us again". When all he had to do was vote (because the alternative, again, is worse) to support and they have the high ground. Come January, when it all goes Corona shaped - again - he can't be accused of failing to support. Quite the opposite, he can retort with a clean sheet.
Maybe this will play out differently, but that's my take as it stands. I don't know what will happen with the vote until the die is cast. But Starmer is a lightweight. He isn't as smart as the Labour right thinks he is. He's allowed himself to be mired in many internal crisis and make himself a victim of the antisemitism shitshow. They should be smashing this government like the fucking Hulk. But instead Starmer just comes across like a wet supply teacher.
And the government wins the vote, so what the hell do i know! :D
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