8 September (Part 2) - A healthy start?
Now that the number of visitors to BIB has fallen in line with Bexley
Council’s dishonesty level it is tempting to call it a day but on the other hand
it still provokes interesting comment from readers, mainly supportive but not all.
The phenomenon that I see on Twitter is repeated via email and even by
telephone. Some people are only prepared to see the very worst aspects of the
news and the country as a whole. Maybe it is because I have
sometimes exposed the very worst of Bexley Council and readers think that is
indicative of my political views on everything. As I have said before, almost every
criticism of Bexley Council has its origins in their lies. Sometimes outrageous lies.
It has been the only real and continuing motivation since 2009.
The correspondents all have one thing in common. They are all Remainers
relishing every Government failure to reap the Brexit Dividend. Most are Labour supporters.
More generally I remain firmly inclined to the right of politics and prefer to see the best things about UK plc.
As such I remain hopeful that the new Prime Minister is a proper Conservative
and not an imposter like Boris Johnson who hasn’t done one truly Conservative
thing since 2019. Botched Brexit, countless Covid mistakes, Green lunacy, open borders and crime out of control.
Liz Truss has been in post for three days and I am not universally in favour of everything I have heard so far
but neither am I seriously disappointed - yet.
I think I can understand choosing a Cabinet made up mainly of loyalists because there
is simply no time for argument; she has two years in which to do things. Conservative things.
When
I first saw this photo I thought it was Ken Clarke who served as Health Secretary
between 1988 and 1990 and thoroughly useless he was too but I do not remember
being critical of his cigar and beer habit. So disgusting as this photo is I
cannot reasonably hold it against the new Health Secretary. I will never meet her so I will not be
made to suffer the stench of smoke, sweat and old wine stains.
It is a little worrying that someone who has made such poor life style choices
may have some control over my own state of health but on the plus side we may see the end of the
nanny state. A good Conservative thing to do.
Thérèse Coffey has been against proposals to further curb smoking and whilst I
have never puffed even one in my entire life I am inclined to agree with her. Agree, that
is, that Blair got it wrong. In my opinion he should have banned smoking in all
public places - places that I cannot avoid - and not only indoors as he
did. Market forces would soon have created non-smoking pubs and restaurants when
smokers are a minority of the population.
In the late 1980s my own office workplace held a ballot on smoking and even some smokers voted for a ban.
The thing I really don’t like about Coffey is the need to type those bloody French accents.