23/04/2020

And welcome to thankful Thursday (forgive the sarcasm), so let's see what's been happening, shall we?

In America, Trump finally found away to close his borders which he has been trying to do for nearly four years as he signed the green card suspension order (using the pandemic as a cover to ram through long-sought hardline immigration policies in an election year) stopping all immigrants and their extended families from applying to live and work in the US with the excuse that it is to help Americans get to the front of the line for jobs and would last sixty days with an option to extend. Also he has been seen planting a tree for International Earth day which was a joke as this guy has never done a hard days work in his life. Then it was followed by yet another tweet ordering the destruction of any Iranian gunboats harassing US ships, but in his own infallible way he cocked that up by saying he had ordered any gunboats to be shot down. I didn't know the Iranians had invented boats that fly. 

So leaving the shores of the free and idiots, let's look at dear old Blighty. Firstly Johnson is supposedly recovering at Checkers, but still conducting business as usual except for prime-ministers question time which Labour's Harriet Harmon is accusing him of hiding from, saying if he is well enough to talk to the US president and conduct affairs of state, he should be well enough to answer MP's questions remotely whether he is at Checkers or Downing street recovering. In America they have the twenty fifth amendment to deal with the president becoming too ill to work, why doesn't the UK have something similar to oust an unsuccessful or ill leader. We are being told researchers are ready to conduct human trials of the COVID-19 vaccine, but it may not be fully ready till the end of the year which is scary considering we still have nine months to go. 

In economic overpricing the AA say "Drivers are getting mauled and ripped off at the petrol pumps" claiming in this economic crisis we are being overcharged by more than five pounds a tank for petrol and should be paying around one pound a litre, but in some cases we are being charge ten pence more per litre than we should be. Tax, Tax, Tax - the government has to make its money somehow and they will always find a way to stick it to the public.

There is a spirit of hope out there as people find different ways to raise money for the NHS workers.

Rant you tomorrow!