I watched the Pride of Britain tonight but somehow managed to miss Boris and Carrie addressing the nation. Did I blink and it was gone? Can anyone tell me if it actually happened please. I did take a phone call in the middle so maybe that was it. Now I’m going to be catty meow, didn’t Carol Vorderman look a mess, sometimes I have to wonder if people own a mirror. She obviously can’t have many friends or someone would have told her to go home and get changed.
I was pleased to hear of another government U-turn, this time regarding the import of meat. The new Trade and Agriculture Commission will be made properly independent and given the power to scrutinise each trade deal before it is made. This should ensure that we do not import chlorinated chicken and hormone fed beef. I was seriously considering becoming vegetarian after Brexit if we didn’t get some sort of proper food controls.
In London a new butcher shop has opened but it won’t be selling any actual meat products. Everything they sell will look like meat, taste like meat and have texture like meat but it won’t be meat. Makes me think of that old saying ‘if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck it probably is a duck’. My question here – yes, I know I always have a question but someone has to – is why do vegetarians need products like this? I like vegetarian meals and often eat them but I also like them to look and taste of what they are.
Over the pond there are only two days left before polling starts. Melania’s been on stage talking rubbish and forgetting that her husband is rubbish and now it’s Ivanka’s turn (the first daughter). She has likened her dad to Winston Churchill during WW2 calling him a warrior – not enough of one for him to do any national service though. I hadn’t realised that Republicans believe that it’s their Christian duty to vote Republican and an evangelist leader has been telling his 20 million strong congregation it is their duty to get out and cast their vote. However a large number of evangelicals have decided that the bible permits them to vote for the party that will do the most good and are preparing to back Biden. And while all this is going on the Trump has criticised European lockdown and his friend Nigel Farage is threatening to rebrand the Brexit Party as Reform UK opposing lockdown as he’s ‘had enough’.
And the panic buying has got off to a good start. Toilet rolls are sold out in many supermarkets and customers are piling their trolleys high with anything they can’t live without. I thought the shops were staying open but maybe people have been in the habit of stealing their toilet paper from pubs and restaurants. Good night my lovelies. Don’t let storm Aiden keep you awake. 😴💤😴