Here I am in the middle of a Pandemic with my own self inflicted disease (COPD) and I take that on the chin, because I brought it about myself with almost half a century of thinking I was "Jack the Lad" with cigarettes !
The rage is not from the Pandemic itself, but the ramifications of it, Covid-19 on our society and our puerile response to it as a society!
Now at this point I need to make clear that I have some very good and close friends for whom total absolution is essential (to the rant I'm about to embark on) Richard Osler, Roger Strike and Allan Pook are three of the most genuine guys you could wish to meet, ergo guys;
"Et ego te absolvo a peccatis tui "
Now you can carry on being Tories while I wallow in the warm water of separatism and the break up of the allegedly United (?) Kingdom.
The anger/rage is about the inequality of life in 21st century Britain and the fact that there are children for whom poverty is a way of life and whether it is the fault of individual parents or not is irrelevant!
These are fucking children for the love of God and to have obscenely wealthy companies decide to apparently profiteer from their plight is sending my blood pressure through the roof. This Government would have done the square root of naff all had it not been for a young footballer who has what they have not; a conscience !
Marcus Rashford is a beacon of light in an extremely dark tunnel of capitalism and my admiration for him and his family grows daily ! Pressure from him and those members of society who do understand conscience, brought to attention of a cabinet of multi-millionaires, the plight of the many thousands of children who are falling out of the net of school meals during the Pandemic and eventually the cabinet decide to give them "food parcels" (not vouchers since that would eliminate a stratum of donors to the Tories from their ability to profit from misery).
Still it was supposed to mean that the children would be fed during the national lockdown so it was a step in the right direction !
Wrong !
What Chartwell perceive to be a balanced diet and nutritionally fair for a growing child is;
As an aside this, this morally defunct company (Compass) were found in 2013 to have "inadvertently" supplied horse meat to schools in Ireland and Northern Ireland and in 2006 were fined £40 Million for a bribery allegation in terms of a UN contract for peace-keepers in Liberia ! With this background in commercial catering they are just the sort of company that this Government would associate in terms of contract award !
Dearest Bunty has just been through to try and calm me down to a mere apoplectic rage!
It's not working though as I truly want vent my anger physically on the people who are running this (dis) United Kingdom !
Children starving, suicides increasing, debt pushing people into extreme poverty, companies collapsing with attendant unemployment but the bastards in Westminster give themselves another £10,000 for having to work from home?
Mea culpa Bunty, there is nothing I wouldn't give for you except the desire to truly batter every one of these complete arses into oblivion !
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