19th October
Truss can’t last 100 days. Can she?
Suella Braver(wo)man, Home Secretary, has resigned because of ‘an honest mistake that she has made’. Maybe she touched someone’s thigh. Or perhaps she is reflecting on the mistake of being a Tory MP. Or a government minister? Or for expressing immigration views that would not be out of place in some right wing dictatorship?
I was going to work from home. Got up and went into the office at 7am. When did it suddenly get so-dark so-early in the morning? Clocks go back soon and the usual debates around whether they should or not, which seem revolve around ‘children will die if we don’t put the clocks back’. Good to see that level headed debate.
Three other people in the office all day. It surely can’t carry on like this.
The house is calm.
The streets are calm.
The village is calm.
Turn the tv on and the news is one endless political sit com drama.
Truss stood up in the Commons and said she was a fighter not a quitter. Oh dear. Says a lot really.
Minutes afterwards her Home Secretary had resigned, using a flimsy excuse that she had broken the ministerial code by sharing government information using her personal email account (shades of Hilary Clinton). Sounds very suspicious and a put up job. Not a resignation issue, until you read her resignation letter which describes her issues with government policy. Good old Suella. Knows the time to go on that long awaited holiday to Rwanda. I’m sure she can find a job on a reception desk welcoming refugees. Visions now of her as a Butlins red coat.
And then later on we have the fiasco of the fracking vote.
As I say, high drama on the tv news, but the streets remain calm.
Ukraine news keeps getting kicked into the background by all of this, but some terrible things happening there on a daily basis. How does Putin or Russia come back from this anytime soon?
Got my sixty pound gas rebate. Notified by email. Bit of a sick joke really and shows you how bad things are. I’m in full employment, with a good wage and they give me a rebate. I’d think nothing of spending sixty pounds on books in Waterstones at the weekend. There must be a better way of supporting needy people with their bills.
Donated sixty to the local food bank.
Raining.
Dog wants walking.
Not another soul out.
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