Ok, these things are the ones that will kill you: smoking, obesity and…

Yes, there’s a new ‘social killer’ on the block and its not, like, ‘buses stepped in front of’ or ‘people with knives’ or even ‘slow death by Brexit’. No, its lack of sleep. Because apparently we Brits don’t sleep enough. Only whilst we’re at the wheel of a car, and that don’t count. It’s proper sleep. In bed. Sleeping. So the government, having bored us to the point of mass, collective suicide over the ways to keep us alive (irony? what fucking irony) by excessive regulation and information, are now going to send in the sleep police. Different from a ‘sleeping policeman’. They ruin your car suspension. Sleep police will just render you numb from the boredom induced by excessive nanny-statism and repeated messaging. Repeated messaging. Repeated messaging…

“Failure to sleep between 7 and 9 hours a night is associated with: strokes, obesity, heart attacks, depression, anxiety…” But supporting Spurs gives most of us that same level of risk EVERY SODDING WEEK, but they don’t legislate for that. And really, 7 hours sleep? Lila barely sleeps for that in one go. And her poor mum, like any other mother-of-newborn, counts 2 hours as a miracle sent down by the Lord God him(/her) self. I know loads of people who get by on 5/6 hours a night max. Ok, they’re all in hospital suffering with the above… but really they’re not. They just ‘need less sleep’. Although in future those people and other insomniacs may be subject to arrest because the government will decide what we ‘need’, thank you very much.

But Labour deputy leader, Brother/Comrade Tom Watson is a bit of a case in point. Not about sleep but health and stuff generally. Having gone from an immense lard-bucket obese fat fuck with type 2 diabetes to a svelte and pert little size zero with, credit to him, no more diabetes, all in a year or so. Yet for some, namely Corbyn, McDonnell, Dippy Diane, (the team number-cruncher), Tom is a bad person. Because Tom said that perhaps Jenny Formby, head of Labour’s National Executive, should reveal all to both him and to the EHRA inquiry into anti-semitism and she’s been a bit slow/stupid/non-existent in the anti-anti-semitism department. To which Abbott & Co said how shameful and uncaring and rotten of Watson to speak such things whilst Formby is undergoing chemotherapy.

And I have all sympathy for anyone undergoing the horrendous brutalities of chemo, even hateful, duplicitous and morally questionable chairpeople of parties so mired in their own amazing levels of bureaucratic spiralism and party denialism that they can’t notice how the ridiculous repetition of ‘we are opposed to all forms of racism’ has as much validity as if it was chanted by white-robed and be-hooded members of the KKK as they burnt another cross in Mississippi. Actions generally speak much louder than words. And Jenny Formby, like all the others, has taken no action worth speaking about. Though I wish her well on a personal level. Which is totally irrelevant to questioning any actions in her job.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx