I know that governments have a serious job to do. They have to ‘say it like it is’, except when scandal, sleaze, parties or horrrendoulsy poor landlords are concerned, I get that. But is all fucking doom and gloom from our new lot. Led by Misery-in-chief, Dreary Kiery, we were never going to get the laugh-a-minute hi-jinks of the Johnson government. But The Dull One has really excelled all expectations so far. And it’s really not what he says, but totally the way he says it. In such a manner that would have those of the cheeriest disposition reaching for the sleeping pills and razor blades.

He decided to condemn half the pensioners in the country to death by freezing when he removed the Winter Heating Allowance, but that’s fine because I didn’t really need it anyway, and if a ‘cull’ is required, then so be it. He needed that money to pay for his inability to negotiate with the unions, which has cost ‘us’ 6 billion quid. So far. And everything is ‘the fault of 14 years of Tory government and mismanagement…’, which is why that sentence has to be repeated every 10 minutes, whatever the context, and has been since January. He came to power on a promise of ‘change!!!’, implying, in my eyes -for the better. But that’s my fault for presuming. Because change works both ways. And they are still promising change, but for the much worse. If only we had a Prime Minister who was capable of understanding that there are ways of delivering news in a more positive light.

Ok, there has been some humour around, even I can’t deny that. Jas Athwal, the MP for Ilford South, came to victory after promising to be the ‘renter’s champion’ against rogue landlords. And it turns out he’s the roguest of rogue landlords. Renting out 15 flats in his own constituency which are insect-infested health hazards. Better still, any tenants who raise a complaint are threatened with eviction. So you can’t say Kier doesn’t like a laugh.

And Gails-gate has returned. But from under its disguise. The good folks of Walthamstow have given up on their ‘Gail’s is too posh for E17!!!’ campaign and changed it to the all new ‘Gail’s is too Zionist, Jewish, Israeli for Walthamstow!!!’ If you buy a chocolate croissant from there, you might as well take a Gazan baby and shoot him in the head!!!

Ok, Gail’s is no longer Israeli owned, nor has any links really. But hang on; it hasn’t joined the ‘boycott Israel’ campaign so it might as well be an IDF bomber command unit. Ban it anyway.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx