you gotta fight for your right...

One of the more bizarre news events from the past couple of years surrounded the case of two young women who one day met in the countryside and went for a walk.  They drove to their destination in separate cars, stopping on the way for a Costa.  When they reached their destination they decided to sit down (socially distanced) on a bench to enjoy their coffee.

Unfortunately for them they were spotted by the police, who in their power-crazed wisdom decided that their drinks coupled with the fact they were sat down constituted a picnic - a heinous act if ever there were one. They were arrested, fined and criminalised.

You couldn't make this up - and I haven't.   It's all true.

As are the cases of dozens of people prosecuted, fined and criminalised for holding illegal gatherings during lockdown.  

One particularly sad story was that of a man who bought a bottle of wine to say thank you to his late father's neighbour for keeping an eye on him during the last few days of his life.  The neighbour invited him in.  Within minutes this severe breach had been reported and seven (yes, seven) police officers in full riot gear arrived and duly arrested the culprits.

Our Home Secretary forcibly stated that they and anyone else arrested for "partying" deserved all they got (£10,000 fines in some cases) for so flippantly disregarding the rules put in place to keep us safe.

This is the same Home Secretary then that only this week defended our oh-so wonderful Prime Minister for holding and attending parties at Number 10.  Her reasoning, that he said he thought they were work events, beggars belief.

just FUCK OFF is it you utter, utter waste of oxygen

I'm no royalist, but the sight of the Queen sitting alone at her husband's funeral was a sad one.  That we now know the night before the funeral staff in Number 10 were drinking, dancing and partying into the small hours makes it doubly sad.

That people were too afraid to visit dying loved ones for fear of breaking the law, went to socially distanced funerals with no hope of celebrating the deceased's life afterwards lime my father in law's) and generally obeyed the rules, while those that made them flagrantly abused them while laughing in our faces makes me sick to the core.

Has anyone been arrested?  No.  Which is surprising given that Downing Street is heavily policed.  I can only assume that any officer's ears were covered by their helmet, and they were looking the other way while staff sneaked in suitcases (yes, suitcases) full of alcohol.

But it's alright.  Our esteemed deputy PM, a man so dense I doubt he could get a job flipping burgers in a roadside mobile cafe, said on television that the police "don't investigate crimes retrospectively".  Breath a sigh of relief then anyone who has committed a crime in the past.

The idiot-in-chief, Johnson, will probably survive this by relaxing all covid laws (in England at least) in the next week or so.  I wonder whether he's following the science, or the queue at the off-licence.