Roadmap to hell

I won't go into details.

You'll be glad to hear.

But, yesterday, our roughled PM announced his long-promised roadmap to normality.

I point out at this juncture, how to move from lockdown to staged unlocking should have been planned months, if not years in advance, but the reality is that Johnson has been pitching the announcement as to what his backbenchers would put up with.

As it is, the CRG hated it, and demanded earlier lockdowns, because in its two variations, the headbangers really don't have a clue. Save shops, save the economy they cry, while denying the damage being done to the same businesses by their precious, perfect Brexit.

Any staged lockdown will not affect us much, apart from meeting with John once a week at Jen's to play cards. Maybe having a pub lunch in April of May, in the beer garden.

Because, according to SAGE, if the Government gets this wrong, then between 60,000 and 100,000 MORE people could die.

But when you've killed 120,000 with failed austerity, and another 120,000 in the first two waves of COVID, what's a few more?

96 people died at HIllsborough. We saw their twisted bodies being carried across the pitch on makeshift stretchers fashioned from advertising hardings. In the last year there have been 1250 Hillsboroughs, nearly three and a half a day. But we didn't see them dying, nor their bdies being carried away. They are but a number on a powerpoint presentation. Something to be skipped over so you can trumpet the vaccinations done.

Today, Matt Hancock denied there had ever been PPE shortages in the NHS during the pandemic. Maybe that's why the Government spaffed £32 billion on dodgy PPE contracts, and doctors, nurses and health workers had to fashion aprons out of bin liners or share masks back at the start.

But that would be the truth, not acceptable in Brexitlalaland, where failure is a success, up is down.