This government is intent on taking away our freedoms. We might as well be living in China during the ‘cultural revolution’, or in Russia under Stalin. Maybe Putin. And I’m not just talking about the freedom to drive dangerously fast whilst sipping cocktails either.

First they’re going to stop children from smoking. Why would they do that? Smoking might relax them, stop them being so horribly agitated and agitating all the time. I bought Joey a pack of Marlboro for his 3rd birthday and he hasn’t complained.

But now they want to stop us hitting our children. Or, in our case, grandchildren, as our kids are big enough to hit back, so should be avoided. Why would the government wish to take away one of life’s pleasures? Which is free!!! In Scotland (and Ireland) smacking kids has been illegal for ages. Which is why the smart money is selling sticks in Newcastle. So all the Scots bring their kids across the border, buy a stick and beat the shit out of them before going back home. It’s all going to end though as the new legislation will ban the beating of all children. Even English ones. A sad day.

Yet worse is yet to come. This time from the ‘gift that keeps on giving’, Angela Rayner. The tax-avoiding, election-frauding, holier-than-thou-except-for-the-ongoing-police-investigation, deputy leader of the Opposition, soon to be… Government!

The gobby northerner (no mention of gender, it might offend someone) wants to stop working pensioners from being exempt from paying National Insurance. Currently, pensioners (like MEEEE!!! FFS) stopped paying NI when we reached pension age. Because on that very day I woke up sitting in an armchair, covered by a rug, stooped over with arthritis, barely able to walk due to bad hips and dodgy knees, I was dribbling down my (very old, grey) cardigan and I’d wet myself. Amazing what a difference a day makes. Yet I was buoyed to struggle up and onto my Zimmer frame by the thought that I’d no longer be paying NI. Instead, as a pensioner, I’d become a ‘net taker’ from that system. And, viewing this from a socio-economic viewpoint; anything that gives me money and takes less away IS GOOD FOR THE NATION!!!

Yet that rancid person is intent on sucking the very blood from my veins and condemning me to poverty.

Happy Thursday, Lila & Joey day, better get a lot of slapping in today, it may be our last opportunity!!

A xxxx