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31 July - How to waste public funds

YouTube videoI returned from a little social event yesterday and turned on the TV a few minutes after eight o’clock. It presented me with a YouTube video filmed yesterday in Bexley Heath (sic). Shortly afterwards an email alerted me to the same video and provided the link which my TV does not.

I have no idea how YouTube managed to offer me a locally based video when I have not looked at anything else remotely like it. Google knows too much about us. I blocked YouTube on my router once as a protest against their censorious attitudes but found it was impossible to get along without it. Too many news outlets rely upon it.

The video is three hours long and portrays a protest against Bexley Council thinking that getting a bloke in a frock to read stories to toddlers is a good use of taxpayers’ money.

The bits I sampled show a small group outside both Crayford and Bexleyheath libraries who occasionally use a megaphone to say not a lot. They are outnumbered by police who stand around doing nothing. The largest number I saw in any one sampled shot was twelve. How much did that cost and how many bikes were pinched while they were so occupied?

Members of the public who can occasionally be heard talking appeared to be predominately against the wisdom of influencing young minds but not all of them.

Is it any wonder that the public is so against the way this country is being governed? At the aforesaid social event I only knew one person in my group and ages ranged up to 92.

It was universally agreed that the Conservatives had thrown away their 80 seat majority and achieved nothing of which one could be proud. There was also universal agreement that no one could vote for Kier Starmer as he had no policies and would likely make things worse.

What an awful state we are in now that woke Lefties have infiltrated every aspect of society. Absolutely hopeless.

 

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