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Boris has just announced that he will be bringing forward the ban on new petrol and diesel powered cars to 2030. That sounds like a great idea for the environment. But hang on a minute!

All new petrol and diesel cars will be banned? So there will still be a vast amount of petrol and diesel cars on the road for at least another 10 years. Unless of course the garages that supply fuel close before then due to a lack of sales. That will be a big group of newly unemployed people looking for another job. And add to that the refinery and delivery staff. This is starting to add up!

So all of the garages have switched to electric charging points with cafes and shops to keep you occupied whilst your car is charging. Which I guess is going to take longer than the 15 minutes or so that it takes to fill your car up now. And you will have to do this every hour or so due to the batteries charge capacity. Going on a long journey. Better leave a lot earlier to allow for all of that charging.

Now 2030 has arrived and I have treated myself to a new electric car. Luckily I have a house with a drive and I had an electrician install an outside charging point. Hopefully they are all going to be the same (yeah right!). The car has charged up all night and the next day I go to work. My office is 60 miles from where I live, and the drive is nearly all motorway. Motorway driving is rubbish for electric cars as it is all drive and no charge. I make it to work carry out my day and get in my car to go home. Unfortunately, with an average range of less than 100 miles I will have to stop on my way home and charge the car up! It will be OK though as I am sure that work will install charging points in the car park so that we can all use them for free.

Now I have a house with a drive. But my neighbours don’t have a drive. In fact they park outside my house. Does this mean that they will need a nice long extension lead to plug their electric car in to? What about when I drive over the cable. Or when the postman trips over it? Whose fault is that going to be?

And this is just a road with small houses and gardens. What about those nice, old Victorian terraces. There will be leads trailing everywhere. Especially as you can’t always park outside your own house. What about your inner city tower blocks. I can’t even think how they will charge their electric cars.

And what about the electric for the charging. Where is that coming from? A nice old coal powered generating station? Will the electrical grid even cope with the extra demand. And you can forget about some of these wonderful carbon neutral power generation. Solar charges during the day whilst most people are at work and wind is just not guaranteed.

Electric vehicles produce nearly zero emissions once on the road and compared to a normal combustion engine this is fantastic. But the emissions don’t start there. They start at construction. Emissions of an electric car’s battery is more than 50% than their combustion engine counterpart. The lithium, cobalt, and other materials used in battery construction is also environmentally damaging. And when it comes to disposal of your electric car that causes even more environmental impact.

On the other hand though. Once electric cars and their batteries have improved. And construction and disposal is common place. They will be a great alternative to the old combustion engines. But, just a thought. For each litre of fuel that I buy nearly 60p is tax. Now that is a lot of money generated for government. And you know full well that government like to tax us on everything (Think Brexit). So where is that tax loss going to be passed on to? My electric bill?

I saw a video on facebook the other day about the lack of people at covid testing sites. And that suddenly made me realise something. I drive past two different covid testing sites on my way to work. And, you have probably guessed it, I have never seen anyone there being tested. In fact one of them always seems to be closed. Lots of people in hi-viz coats. But no one looking like they are waiting for a test.

Now you are going to say “that is because it is not open when you go to work”. But I work shifts so I go past at different times of the day, Morning, afternoon, and evening. And since watching the video I have taken even more notice. And yet I have still never seen anyone there!

Considering that the website is always down. And friends say that they can’t book a test. Then where is everybody?

And, if there is never anybody being tested. Where are these massive numbers coming from that love being quoted by the government and media?

Here is the link to the video Where are all the sick people

This week the UK goes in to a second national lockdown. Basically, as of Thursday you can’t do anything that you enjoy, but you can do all of the things that you don’t enjoy!

You can go to school and to work, mixing with people that you don’t really know. But you can’t go round your friends and families houses, who you do know!

Yeah! That makes sense.

But we need to protect the NHS! I hear you say. And yes you would be right. But lets not forget that the hospital admissions are still less than they were during the first lockdown. And the hospital coped with that. And don’t also forget that government are so concerned that they shut down the nightingale hospitals and still haven’t re-opened them - not that they got used last time remember!

Figures show that the number of people catching the virus are up when compared to last time. Well of course they are. It has something to do with testing. Something that we wasn’t doing last time.

We need time to develop a vaccine. This is a flu that we are talking about. Flu viruses mutate. This is the reason that you have to have a flu jab every year. Because the common flus about are a different strain to last year. But it is OK because when we get the vaccine we can all have it and be safe. Safe from a virus that has since mutated and is now a different strain. Hmm! I wonder why it is so hard to develop a vaccine.

What if? By dragging out this virus over such a long time it gives it chance to mutate in to something much deadlier? Usually over winter the majority will have caught a cold of lurgy and by spring it will have died out as we all become immune to it. This time though. This virus has had an entire year to mutate and to become a better virus. Maybe we should have just let it run its course. Those that survived were now better prepared for the next one. And those that didn’t - didn’t. It sounds harsh. But that is really what survival of the fittest is about.

Anyway. On a brighter note. As a key worker my drive to work will be much easier again!

OK Welsh mp’s how about losing the power trip and stop being a bunch of dicks!

So you can only go shopping for essentials. So what one person thinks of as essential is not going to be the same as another person. And what difference does it make if you are already out shopping that you can’t pick up a few other things as well? Surely it is more important to just reduce the amount of contact that you have with other people.

An apart from that, if wearing a mask and keeping 2m away from everyone protects you. Then why do we need a lock down. Either, they are lying about the masks, lying about social distancing, or lying about everything.

Maybe we should see exactly what the Welsh assembly considered to be essential when we look at its work today?

(spell check wants mp in capital letters. I don’t think that they deserve that!)

Here’s an idea. On one night every week the news is not allowed to have any bad news. No mention of the coronavirus, no over dramatizing every little story that they can get their dirty little mitts on. Only good news. I personally don’t think that they could do it. I reckon that they haven’t even got a department that deals with good news.

Fingers crossed!

The clocks have changed. This always throws my internal clock out. Now this morning my alarm went off. And for some reason I knew that it was too early. Sure enough, checked my phone, and it was only 0430. Excellent an extra hours kip! Still 0530 is pretty early. Still a belter lay-in than my usual 0315 early start get up.

But just having a thought about the clocks changing. Apparently we get more light in the morning. Well I don’t know about you. But, it is pitch black outside. So that doesn’t really help. The thing that I will notice is though. When I finish work. It will be getting dark!

Lets make this the example. A school kid walking to school. When they leave it is dark - but getting light. When they come home, it is lightish - but getting dark. Would it not be better then to keep BST in the winter, and have it lighter longer in the evenings.

And whilst I am going on about school kids. Why are school uniforms nearly always black or or other dark colours. Surely it would be safer to be seen. And I am sure that trendy kids wearing dayglow green would love it!

If Covid is the end of the Human Race I want to go out with a bang.

But government wants us to go out with a whimper!

Watching the TV this evening and I wonder why everyone is so depressed!

The news in just full of utter shit. Every last depressing story about coronavirus that they can find. Not a single piece of good news. Just all of the most mind-numbing, staggeringly high figures that they can find. 

And then the soaps start. Yet more doom and gloom. Not a single good-will story in any of them.

Interspersed with these depressing storylines is a special program that regurgitates the soul destroying desperation of the news. Sometimes they will have a special on mental health, and on how we are all suffering with some kind depression on other illness. I wonder where that might be coming from!

And then the news is on again. Just to make sure that you are well and truly depressed before going to bed. That makes sure that you don’t sleep properly and wake up tired before going back to the old grindstone.

I have just seen a program about student nurses being rushed through their training and sent out to Covid wards during the Covid pandemic.

Now don’t get me wrong but. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to send the student nurses in to the normal wards whilst the more experienced nurses are moved in to the covid wards?

My prediction for July 2021.

Border Force is unfit for purpose!

Why? Because after Brexit happens in December. If it happens! The government will blame Border Force for everything. The fact that we are now in October and Border Force still don’t really know what the government wants them to do tells us everything.

So MPs will put on their Teflon suits and gloves and wipe their hands of it all and blame Border Force for anything that goes wrong.

Here we go again!

Have you noticed that you can’t talk about race without being called a racist. And some racist can’t see past the colour of someone’s skin.

Now the obvious issue comes when the police are involved. As soon as the have any contact with a black subject they are immediately branded as being racist. There is never any mention of the fact that the reason that the police are there is because the person is of interest to them. They may be acting suspiciously, they may be wanted, or someone else has called the police asking for assistance.

I watched some of the police bodycam footage of their involvement with Mr Clarke which resulted in his death in custody. Mr Clarke was obviously in distress and it appeared that the police were doing their best for people who are not medically trained. An hour of Emergency Life Support and some videos on ABD once a year does not make them a highly skilled medical professional - I don’t care what anyone says!

So lets make some assumptions as I haven’t seen the full bodycam footage only a media selected bias opinion by the media. In much the same way as Mr Floyd!

What is missing is;

Someone at some point called the police. They didn’t call an ambulance, they didn’t call the mental health specialist, they called the police instead! Was this because Mr Clarke’s ABD was causing problems.

Two sets of handcuffs were applied!!!!!! Sorry but I can’t get the emphasis that the media put on this. It is called chain linking the cuffs. It is pretty obvious that this is done when the person’s physique doesn’t permit their arms to meet behind their back. In this case it was actually a good thing. By releasing the pressure of the handcuffs behind the back helps improve the breathing capacity of the subject.

In the edited bodycam footage you can see one of the police officers saying that “you’ve got to breath”. Whilst this is being said the other officers have Mr Clarke on his side. This aids in breathing! It has been used by first aiders for years. It relieves the pressure on the chest and improves breathing capacity. Extremely good for ABD. I’ll talk about what ABD is in a later post.

The police then hood Mr Clarke. Or did they use the hood on Mr Clarke’s hoodie to help keep his head down? It is a lot easier to move someone when their head is down than it is when they are standing up.

The police then removed Mr Clarke to a waiting ambulance. Why, oh why was the ambulance not dealing with Mr Clarke in the first place?

But then the big mainstream media finish. It was because of Mr Clarke’s colour that made the police be responsible for his death. Why. Because al of the police were white so therefore they must be all racists and thought that they could kill a black man! Utter, utter idiots! Nothing more than inciting protest and violence!

Anyway.

Here’s an example for you. Two different people go for a coronavirus test. Both test positive. So that is two positive covid test for the statistics.

Four days later they both go for another test. One tests positive again and the other test negative. So that is another one for the statistics.

So from those two people we have three people who are positive. What! three instead of two?

But hang on a minute. One of those two people actually tested negative four days later so their test was a false positive as they actually never had coronavirus. So actually there was only one person who was positive.

Statistics recorded three positive infected people when in fact there was only one. Three times as many as there actually were. If you scale that up then 10000 becomes 30000! that is a big difference.

Don’t get me wrong here. And I know that you will!

Do we really need a black history month? Yes it is great to celebrate history and some of its heroines and heroes but just one month for black ones. Shouldn’t it actually apply all year?

And what is the real purpose? Is it for black people to feel good about themselves? Is it for white people to feel good about themselves?  Does it actually cause more racism by annoying the hell out of white people? Or is it more about political bullshit?

In my office all of the posters seem to be about black people being slaves. Not about the multitude of black people who weren’t slaves and just did something great. And by great I don’t mean just about how they tackled racism.

And if we insist on having a specific month for black history. What about Chinese history, or Indian history months? Both of these groups of people have been in the UK a long time but we don’t tend to hear about how persecuted they are.

Many of the black people in my office don’t actually like it. They feel that it makes a mockery of black people and  is purely just political correctness. A way for those in charge to say “look at us - see we are not racist at all”

So next time you see a poster have a look at it. See what that person had done. And then brush your chip off your shoulder and get on with your life.

We have had no rain for ages and then when we do it rains and rains and rains and rains and rains.....

There are flood warnings in place after a month of rain has fallen over a 40 odd hour period. And the doomsayers will say that we are heading for another great flood!

It is that time of the year again when the weather turns, the mornings are darker, the nights draw in, and the rain and fog roll in. It is also that time of the year when people forget how to drive and what their controls are for.

Cars have overly bright headlights that can burn the retinas out of your eyes. Fog lights that are so bright that you may as well shine a laser in to the car behind you. And once you have turned them fog lights on for that slight patch of mist. You must not turn them off again for the rest of the day! And for every car that has turned their fog lights on and yet are still driving at 80mph There is another car that has no lights on what-so-ever and is trying to overtake them.

And then you have the opposite. Even though you can see the car with no lights on miles away there is always that one car that is travelling in the middle lane at 25mph! And if they have any lights make sure that they turn them all on.

And then you have the expert driver, who decides that even though you are sitting in a solid queue of traffic, and going nowhere fast. That they should turn their fog lights on. Strangely enough I know that you are there as you have been their for the last 30 minutes!

President Rump tests positive for coronavirus. That has been the news headline today.

But what have I seen on the mainstream news today? Yep you guessed it. Well what did he expect when he wouldn’t wear a mask! Loads of old footage of him walking around with no mask on. And of him talking about how blown out of proportion the virus is. How many others that he has infected!

When in fact, what should the mainstream media have been saying? We hope that President Trump and his wife get well soon! And that they are doing well.

That would be much better and show a deeper humanity than they do now. Unless they are inciting protests and unrest the media is not interested. It is irrelevant what you think of him.

So I wish President Trump and Melaina a speedy recovery and that they get well soon.

Coronavirus safety is easy you can have 6 people indoors and 6 people outside. No wait no one indoors and 5 outside. No hang on. 4 indoors unless you are at work, and a bird in the hand, two in a bush.

No wait. 6 outside in a park but not in the pub. Unless you are throwing a rubber chicken in the air.

Oh I don’t know and neither do they!