Who's the Daddy: Road ahead is full of U-turns

So here we are again. Nearly 10 months on and we’re more or less back where we started.
So here we are again. Nearly 10 months on and we’re more or less back where we started.So here we are again. Nearly 10 months on and we’re more or less back where we started.
So here we are again. Nearly 10 months on and we’re more or less back where we started.

If lockdowns were actually effective (is this the third one now, I’ve lost count?) don’t you think they would’ve nailed it first time last March?

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, according to Albert Einstein - an actual genius.

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But judging by the levels of idiocy displayed by Boris Johnson and the dim bulbs in his cabinet, the tens of thousands mummy and daddy spent on their private school education every year was the biggest waste of money since The KLF set fire to a million quid in bundles of £50 notes back in the 90s.

And Boris’s vague, empty promises now carry all the weight of, er, one of Boris’s vague, empty promises.

But our daughters are nothing if not pragmatic. Daughter #2 has worked in a supermarket, then in a school, since sixth form finished early last spring after Lockdown 1. Some teenagers spend their “Gap Yah” flouncing around South East Asia and then for the rest of their lives tell anyone who’ll listen all about it.

That’s currently not possible, so she’s spent the past 10 months grafting more or less every day so that when she goes to university in September she doesn’t have to survive on Bombay Bad Boy flavour Pot Noodles poured into stale baguettes (don’t knock it til you’ve tried it).

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Daughter #1 figures that she might as well be holed up with her housemates in her student house at university than be stuck here at home with us - especially as the landlords are still charging rent, even though universities are basically shut but still have the brass neck to charge full whack for tuition fees. Don’t get me started, I could go on all night.

The only difference I can see between Lockdown 1 and Lockdown 3 is this time the football’s still on. Boris has figured out if he cancels that again there’ll be a revolution.

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