14 September (Part 1) - Choose your dictator
There is some dispute over whether Adolf Hitler ever said this himself
or was quoting someone else and not being a German speaker myself I cannot
easily find out. Fortunately you don’t need to be a German speaker to know that Government Minister Kit Malthouse
is a keen student of German history of the 1930s.
I
have been asking friends and acquaintances if they will ever vote Conservative
again now that the party so vigorously supports state tyranny to defend us against a bug which is
currently killing fewer people than good old fashioned flu and which overall has
killed approximately half the number of the last influenza epidemic. The next
set of opinion polls should be interesting.
Fortunately for the Conservatives the Labour Leader is even less attractive.
At 77 years of age I feel I am not so stupid that I cannot decide on my own precautions
and the youngsters must be allowed to live their lives as fully as possible. If
I had teenagers living in the house I might ask them to restrict their visits to
the pub but does the whole country have to suffer because of a few old ’uns like
me who if suffering ill health are probably not going to live for many years
anyway and it is not as if it is a guaranteed death sentence.
The mother of my children is the same age as me and in a pretty bad state
health-wise while locked away in a Glaswegian high
risk care home. She got the dreaded bug and wasn’t at all good for a couple of
days but is now better than she used to be because the hospital not only got her
through the Covid but set her up with an improved drugs regime. Apart from that
my friends and family have suffered only, only!?, a
suicide brought on by the pressures of Boris Johnson’s lockdown.