#freedomweek

I wrote earlier this week about how uneasy I felt with all the restrictions lifting and I have managed to convince everyone at home that going to a festival is a really terrible idea and we’ve rolled it over again until next year.  We now need to find a campsite so that we do have some sort of holiday - ideally one with woodland (husband's requirement), lovely toilets and showers (my requirement), near a beach and yet also not near a beach (requests from the children)....

I sort of feel paralysed by it all though, the thought of booking anything just fills me with dread. 

Last week Half of Australia went into lockdown for less cases than we have in North Somerset.  And yet?!?! And yet we’re supposed to be out and about?!?  Bare faced and carefree?!?

What to believe?  I know I don’t believe this government so I’ll make up my own Covid rules...

On Thursday MP Dawn Butler got asked to leave the Houses of Parliament for calling out Boris for all of his lies?  

‘In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' pic.twitter.com/Za82QjTidE

— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews)

July 22, 2021

I appreciate we can’t have people in the commons calling people a liar on one off occasions but this????  This is a catalogue of lies, over and over again - not just the brexit millions for the NHS, not just the money for that woman he was shagging when he was mayor, not just saying that it was OK that Matt Hancock was not socially distancing from his (sex)aide, his clapping for the NHS when he’s also saying I don’t believe this stuff about the NHS being overwhelmed….

But also…

27 MILLION VIEWS! 27 MILLION!!! Working TOGETHER we have sent a powerful message to UK News shows if they won’t hold this Prime Minister to account for his rampant lying in Parliament we will do it ourselves! How long can you ignore it now @BBCNews? pic.twitter.com/PlvEkEij1V

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2)

July 20, 2021

But where is the procedure for calling this out? If MPs can’t ask for him to account for himself in the House then who can?  If the BBC won’t report on the 30 million people who want him to account for his lies what do we do?  We’re in this ridiculous situation where the prime minister can literally say anything he wants and it doesn’t matter whether it’s the truth or not, and people still vote for him?  Because according to my extensive * research once a tory always a tory.

The tory vote is always guaranteed in many families (like mine) because once upon a time they let people buy their council houses (with no regard for what would happen to people who might need a council house in the future) and this made people believe they were interested in the prosperity of everyone….  And maybe there was once a sort of Tory government that was a sort of caring and parental, even if incredibly patronising, that was looking out for us but this current government is lying, self serving and bordering on facist. A huge step to the right from the party they once were.

Apart from the bill which tries to limit public protest by making sure we’re not too noisy or disruptive - this week the home office (Priti Patel) are pushing for changes to the official secrets act so that journalists who publish leaked government documents can be jailed for up to 14 years.  So if there’s no integrity or culture of truth at the heart of government and there’s no official mechanism for calling this out in parliament or protesting (or we can but only if we whisper on a wednesday lunchtime when we don’t upset anyone too much) and no one can report on anything that the government are doing that might be immoral, illegal or underhand what do we do?  

There’s an entire generation who bang on about the war and how we stopped facism and fail to see this is what’s happening here now - if this sort of dictatorship was happening anywhere else in the world we’d be galloping off on our moral high horse sending troops in to sort them out.

And beyond all the other things they’ve done this week they’ve decided that they’re going to make it illegal to rescue people trying to get here by dingy to seek asylum. They want to make criminals of the RNLI? They’re making it illegal to save someone’s life, to help people.  They’re making basic humanity illegal - if that’s not enough to stop people voting tory I don’t know what will ever do it...

Florida Introduces First ‘Freedom Week’ No-Sales-Tax Event. From July 1st-7th, consumers can skip sales taxes on fun-time items, such as entertainment admissions, sporting equipment and camping supplies.