Quite right, but . . .

At the end of the day it's Labour v Conservatives

and they like it that way.  That's why it won't change.

As far as the recent results go, Lib Dem gains in locals don't necessarily translate into anything in a general election.  They are a party with a local mindset, and can be very effective locally, but nationally they don't have a good reputation and are currently quite obscure.

So Arlene Foster has been forced to resign because she trusted Boris when he said that a border in the Irish Sea would be over his dead body.  Once again this proves that Boris was the man to get Brexit done, because the only way to get it done (without disturbing the fragile equilibrium of Northern Ireland) was by lying about it.

A friend of ours had a call the other day saying that someone had taken £1400 from her bank account.
She laughed, said "They'll be lucky!" and put the phone down.

So people aged 70-79 are supposed to be getting invitations this week, but only if all the over-80s in their area have been done.

Yesterday we heard from an 89-year-old that none of the over-80s in Harehill Court have had an appointment yet.  Today I got a text message saying "As you are aged 70-79 you are invited to make an appointment . . " which I have done.  I'm going to the Winding Wheel on Sunday.  I'm 74.

Something wrong there.

Update from yesterday's Times:  some civil servants are taking Boris to court for ignoring the report on PP's behaviour.  The author of the report has already resigned over it.

When SB was first in the news, there was an interesting article in The Times written by another former Jihadi bride from the same community.  The exact opposite of SB, this young woman was highly intelligent and articulate.  She had quickly understood her mistake and escaped to Ireland.  But she painted a chilling picture of their joint background in East London - an isolated Bengali enclave with absolutely no engagement with Western society and its values, where contact with Westerners was all but forbidden.  It's also known that SB didn't have a happy home life, so her only influences would be her friends and Muslim social media.

On the other hand, reports indicate that she went to a well thought-of culturally mixed school in Bethnal Green which has an excellent reputation for integration.  So it's difficult to know who to believe.  The bottom line is: if she came back, who and what would she come back to?

It seem that the whole of Derbyshire is going into Tier 3 when the current lockdown ends. 
So obviously that didn't work. (Surprise, surprise!)

Well it seems Boris has finally caught up with you - lockdown from next Wednesday from what I hear.

It's now official, but it's Thursday (subject to parliamentary approval on Wednesday).