Reading the news and I feel more hopeful than I have done for years. And a lot less angry.
One day in and we hear the Foreign Secretary calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and a Labour insider reports that the Rwanda* scheme won't be happening. Added to that the new Prime Minister has appointed to his Cabinet people who actually know stuff, in particular about the department they'll be leading.
And it's remarkably free of filthy-rich Eton-educated posh boys. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with F-RE-EPB per se, just the ones who've been in charge of our country of late, and have left us depressed both financially and emotionally
*In 2022 the government said that any 'illegal' asylum seeker entering the country would be sent to Rwanda to be processed. It was an attempt to stop the small boats crossing the channel. Small boats overflowing with people who preferred to pay outrageous sums to criminals and to risk their lives to find a new life in what they thought was a better country.
Incidentally, the majority of staff treating Husband on his recent NHS stay were non-white. They were brilliant and we would be lost without all the immigrants who have come to this country over the years, and who have made this country better by their presence.
Ooh, getting irritated again now thinking about the hideous Reform party and their racist views. So here's a photo to cleanse my blog and my brain.
8 comments:
Thank you for the updates. I get asked about this as if I'd left five minutes ago, so it's good to have word from my official UK correspondent.
I love your reading kids! What marvelous little guys they are.
I was just thinking about the Rwanda scheme yesterday and wondering how soon the new government would end it.
Yay for readers. Our granddaughters read more than their brother but he likes to read too.
I hope this new government can live up to some if not all of the expectations people have of them!
I wish my rands would read. Alas! they have phones.
Hurrah for books!
Talking about people who actually know stuff, I see James Timpson of the shoe repair company has been appointed prisons minister because he has a policy of employing ex-prisoners and thinks only a third of prisoners should be in prison. Smart choice.
I always enjoyed reading when I was a child.
I love that photo of your granddaughter, I hope she gets lots of pleasure from reading. I'm with you about getting angry about the F-RE-EPB who have been running the country and enabling the rich to get richer at our expense. Hurrah for change.
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