Celia, my wife, took the bus to London for a meeting today.
Her journey was remarkable in two ways.
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First, she was actually on a bus, something that is rarer than Matt Hancock’s visit to his constituency office.
The second was that it took her 90 mins to travel from Kensington to Green Park, which is a distance of only three miles. It took her 45 minutes to reach Blackfriars two miles further along via a taxi she finally hailed after abandoning her bus.
Google maps indicates that she would have arrived at her destination an additional hour earlier if she had simply walked the entire distance.
Millions of commuters who have been around for a long time will have had similar experiences.
Our capital city was again paralysed throughout the day and night.
Many trains overland were also cancelled, for reasons I don’t know but which were likely related to train workers taking down their tools. ‘in sympathy’They are able to share their experiences with below-ground colleagues.
And that’s just those who still actually go into work at all.
Exhausted and enraged, Celia took refuge in a café that had a sign saying: ‘Please be patient with those of us who bothered to turn up to work today.’
Doesn’t that sum it all up perfectly?
Let’s be brutally honest: Britain’s broken.
Our public services are shot to pieces, everyone’s striking, violent crime is surging, energy and food prices are out of control, and our work ethic has collapsed.
Since the Covid pandemic, and the extended furlough scheme that paid everyone to sit on the sofa doing f**k all, we’ve become a nation of lazy, entitled, stay-at-home skivers who’ve gone from a ‘can do’To learn more, ‘why the hell should I?’ mentality.
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Only 1.5% of the country worked from home in 1981. Now it’s 36%, and 50 of the UK’s biggest employers say they have no plans to return all staff to the office full time.
We’re now on track to be the only country in the developed world with lower employment in 2023 than before the coronavirus crisis began, with record highs of ‘economically inactive’People, especially those over 50.
There are many reasons for this; sharply rising numbers of those who’ve been out of work for five years or more with long-term health problems, more people retiring earlier, and many legal migrants going home since the pandemic and Brexit.
But it’s also the case that millions of others got rather used to staying in bed during lockdown and have no desire to crawl back out of it now if they can possibly help it.
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To be fair to the lazy wastrels, getting out of the house is becoming more nightmareish.
If the roads aren’t clogged up by incessant ‘works’ or rail strikes, then they’re blocked by the increasingly moronic Just Stop Oil protestors who don’t give a damn about whose lives they disrupt as they shriek and wail their lunatic demands.
One poor Essex man revealed yesterday that he missed carrying his father’s coffin at his funeral several weeks ago because the Dartford Tunnel was closed by protests.
‘How dare they?’He exclaimed.
But the truth is they dare to do it because the police mostly sit back and let them, just as they now seem to sit back and let criminals carry out myriad offences from muggings to burglaries because they’re too short-staffed to cope.
Just 5.6% of reported crimes end in a charge these days (I reported a public death threat made to me on my son’s Instagram page in February last year, and I’m still waiting for a charging decision on the suspect 14 months after he was arrested), rape convictions have halved, financial fraud, especially online, is exploding and our courts are jammed with humongous backlogs.
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So, justice is broken.
So is the once great NHS.
It’s just been revealed that a record number of people are waiting over four hours in England hospital A&E departments, and ambulance waiting times are massively missing their targets too.
People can’t get doctors’ appointments – the number of patients waiting a year or more for treatment has risen by a shameful 13 times. A new record low has been reached in the number of cancer patients who see a specialist within a matter of weeks after seeing their GP.
It is so terrible! Here’s a fact: There are 40,000 nurses and 8,000 doctors vacancies.
All this means many people are dying who shouldn’t be.
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Do you want to visit a dentist? You’re in luck, as many refuse to accept new patients, even children. To relieve the pain, some desperate people will even pull their own teeth out with pliers. Are we still living in Dickensian times or are we returning to Dickensian days?
Our asylum system has collapsed, 90% of schools are short of funds, and beaches and rivers have turned into stinking sewers.
What else can we expect from those who are charged with running the country, but have shown themselves to be such a shameful, rule-breaking, shambolic bunch?
Look at these pictures ‘Sir’Gavin Williamson, who had been fired twice, was given a knighthood in recognition of his failure and is now being fired again after Rishi sunak inexplicably gave him another cabinet job.
What will his reward be this time – a peerage?
What message does his shocking CV send the electorate?
Or, indeed, the above Matt ‘kangaroo testicle-muncher’Hancock now making a mockery of his abject failures as Health Secretary and scandalous exit from the government?
Thanks to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng dragging us into the economic abyss with their reckless gambling, we’re now about to be slapped with massive tax rises at a time when most people can least afford them.
Don’t think about flying away to escape this misery.
Air travel has become a nightmare with frequent late cancellations and chaos at airports because of acute shortages in baggage handlers.
So, there’s no escape, and I fear things are going to get a lot worse before they get any better.
But if you’re seeking at least one ray of sunshine amid all the misery, consider this: if Arsenal beat Wolves on Saturday, we’ll be top of the Premier League until after Christmas. Ho ho ho!
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