Fire 🔥 Breaker

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54676457

The fact that we cannot buy clothes or books in ‘Arseco’ which is my generic name for a supermarket, has not gone down well in some quarters. You expect the odd anti-masking, brexit loving, anti vaxxing personage to kick up a fuss but when it is prominent Conservative and Centre Right Independent politicians who are at it, you have to take the soother out of your mouth for a moment.

Are these politicos genuinely concerned about our freedoms and ability to buy Jamie Redknapp’s autobiography whilst wearing an Arseco sweatband or are they just taking the opportunity to give our own very nice man ‘Mark Drakeford’ a dig because they know it will get them Brownie points with a certain right leaning segment of the population?

I thought that Drakeford was a useless First Minister before the Lockdown in March but these past nine months have shown him to be on a par with Nicola Sturgeon in sticking one into Boris Johnson’s rather ample frame. The old “ I’ve written to him twice and he hasn’t replied” was a masterclass in public humiliation so now Boris the Butcher of Butcher’s Apron frame and fame has set his attack dogs of Andrew RT Davies and Paul Davies out to bad mouth Drakeford’s moves whilst Darren Millar in the North couldn’t tell the difference between slate and beef curtains.

For a country of 3 and half million people and rising we are punching above our weight on the home front at the moment with shoot to kill snipers on the border making sure that Alice from Altringham doesn’t sneak a quick weekend away in Talacre. 

Drakeford knows that the Welsh NHS is in a precarious position and he has taken action. 

Yer ordinary social media surfer has turned scientist to try and prove that this is an over reaction purely because they are now fed up of the Pandemic. If I was somebody like Andrew RT Davies who obviously enjoys his food then yes another hit to the hospitality sector is not welcome.

If this ‘cyfnod y clo’ has taught us anything, it has taught us what are and what are not essential items. Who knew before? Dining out and getting pissed are not essential practices unless you have addiction issues and/or a problem with reality. A nation with a low population comparatively had to take a broad brush approach to prevent the bursting at the seams, overpopulated country next door from continuing it’s historic habit of taking us for granted. 

“The Welsh are getting a bit uppity” 

Drakeford is a firebreaker not a fire starter. Let’s hope that two weeks of essentials only shopping in ‘Arseco’ is enough. If I was the First Minister I would have been Draconian rather than Drakeford and put it in for a month. If only Welsh Labour and “the only so far and no further party of Wales” could close down their respective parties and join together in one big left alliance, then in the name of solidarity it would finally shut up the dissenting voices of the right wing populists who will be much the poorer come November when their global mouthpiece and twitter turn Trump is removed from office.