It’s all looking a bit grim in the UK at the moment. The PM has been lying again. Caught again. No shame. No resignations. And almost worse are the people who trot out to justify his behaviour. Perhaps the most egregious damage Johnson has caused is the hollowing out of his own political party, all to avoid someone holding up a mirror to his own shortcomings. Whether you support their polices or not (I generally don’t) the Conservative party is in power in the UK most of the time and anything that undermines it is just bad for the country.

The elderly couple we visit to play bridge with once a week are active Tory party members who struggle to justify his behaviour but also to identify any competent MP to take over from him. Maybe that’s why he’s still there – they just can’t find anyone else willing or able to do the job that the members can stomach. And yet he’s still there. Still funnelling money to friends and family. Billions of taxpayer’s money.

Today the courts found that the government’s decision to award PPE contracts worth over £500bn via the “VIP lane” ie gravy train was unlawful. Billions of our money staffed away to Tory friends and family whilst apparently we’re unable to find the money to make classrooms safre for covid or feed kids through school holidays. It’s all about choices, isn’t it? Apparently “them” feeding at the trough, is a better Tory choice than educating everyone else.

And I’m trying really hard not to revisit the Brexit debate, but the last pieces of the puzzle with regard to import/export requirements are about to hit home, inflation is the highest its been for an awfully long time and the cost of utility bills is predicted to double.

Where is all the good news?