Firstly in America as this seems to the most prominent. The memorial service for congressman and US civil rights icon John Lewis was held in his hometown of Troy, Alabama, held at the Troy University's Trojan Arena because of the coronavirus outbreak with the number of visitors limited to 800. He was one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders, which included Martin Luther King Jr, and helped organise the historic 1963 March on Washington and a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia's 5th District, an area which covered most of the state capital of Atlanta. While this mournful tribute was been held, hurricane Hanna made landfall in southern Texas and the paramilitary forces in Portland tear gassed more innocent protesters pictures of Trump on yet another golf course were been taken showing the disrespect and ineptitude this man really epitomises. When people are sent running from homes scared for their lives, others are injured and attacked by illegal occupying forces of a corrupt president and one of America's hero's of a century dies leaving yet another hole in the fabric of society, the man supposedly in charge of the country casually saunters and meanders himself around a golf course posing to give a thumps up to photographers, how can a man of this calibre be allowed to carry on in a position of such power any longer. A great man has lost his fight to cancer while the countries own cancerous growth is left to infect and kill a country with his narcissistic and racist tendencies. The poles may say he is on his way out, but the poles in 2016 said he would never become president, so every American of vote-able age needs to get out there and make sure the poles are correct this time round and dethrone the false profit from his cult before it turns in to the fourth Reich. Especially when people are now openly wearing the symbols of the Nazi creed in public place without embarrassment like the women seen in a supermarket using a swastika flag as a mask which is just disrespectful and wrong.
That is all I feel I can say on America today, so let's take a look at dear old Blighty. So while the UK slips in to an economic blackhole and hundreds still contract the coronavirus what is on the mind of the prime minister? Well it's his new obsession of obesity. Johnson has decided to set out his strategy to tackle obesity on Monday which will include a 12-week plan for people to lose weight and GP's prescribing cycling. This all comes after a Public Health England research found that being overweight or obese puts people at greater risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19. Believe it or not ministers have estimated that about two-thirds of adults in the UK are above a healthy weight. We all know that fact, we don't need the government to tell us that as the role of people in labour intensive and physically demanding jobs has decreased and more roles demand employees to sit around inactive for hours at a time less exercise is been done and as the world turns to a more twenty four seven aspect of life away from the nine to five, Monday to Friday of old, people are finding it harder to fit such things as exercise in to their daily routines. As stated by the Labour party "radical action" on obesity was long overdue, but when the weather in this country dictates how often outside exercise can be taken, the cost of certain types of exercises like gyms, swimming and cycling increase in price year in, year out and people find it hard to make ends meet in an economy where people earn less than the basic wage along with the number of people who find themselves on the poverty line without the ability to purchase foods that are classed as stable diets due to the cost of certain healthy foods being priced out of their budgets, how can the government sit on their well paid asses and dictate what the lowly peasants should do.
They should try to live and feed themselves on minimum wage or less, pay extortionate utility bills, rent and have enough left over to eat healthily when the food that is affordable to the lowest paid person is always the most unhealthiest for them. Until the government can find a way to feed a nation equally and healthily how the hell can they think they have the right to tell us how we should feed ourselves especially when they say an unemployed single person should be able to survive on £75 a week, a couple who are both unemployed should be able to survive on £117 a week and someone on minimum wage working 40 hours a week earns £308 a week after tax and national insurance which they all have to pay utility bills, clothe and feed themselves out of, while a government minister earns £1002 after tax and national insurance and the primeminister earns £1734 a week after tax and national insurance, so where is the comparison and how can these overpaid morons think they know what is best for us the two thirds of the nation who are obese. Non of this would have even been thought about if the obese prime minister hadn't contracted the coronavirus, he would have happily gone on his merry way making sure he did just enough to look like he was doing his job even though he is highly inept and even less efficient at it. On that I say happy Sunday, stay well and stay safe.
Rant you tomorrow!
