Yosser Hughes & Alan Bleasdale.

Last night I watched a rerun of a old ‘play for today’ 1980s ‘the Blackstuff.
I remember it from the time and obviously the series it spawned “Boys from the Blackstuff”.

I remember it from young eyes, gritty realism portraying the futile struggle to better ones lot as a working man.

It was fuckin rubbish.

The stand out character is Yozzer Hughes a bully, a nutter, hates woman, and gets all his workmates the sack. Hes no working class hero hes peter Sutcliffe with a tash.

Champagne socialist creator Alan Bleasdale wrote a few things I saw as a youth,

Hes always bleating about the rich, the tories, hes a hypocrite. His kids Timothy &Tamana (good working class names) must be embarrassed by the daft old fucker?

Hes full of shite, gizza job Alan,

Do you pay the maid union rate?

Nominated by: Miserable Northern Cunt 

Losing a hand is a cunt.

I’m in PNG and keep on seeing people who’ve lost a hand.

First is this little mummy in a village, shy young thing with a left hand like a two fingered claw. Somehow as a child she burnt it in a fire, infection set in and never controlled.

Last week in the doctors the fella next to me his arm in a sling. He had 3 fingers and half the palm sheared off by heavy metal in a mine drilling accident.

Today in the plantation we came across a little lady collecting sticks for the fire. Her left forearm was only half there. Same story, burnt in the fire when a child, presumably infection set in and they amputated the lot. Or maybe it just decayed off your to there. Then the woman who works with me piped up, said her oldest daughter has the same problem.

What, lost a hand?
Yes
How did she lose it?
Cut off
By whom?
Her husband
He’s now in prison, right?
No they’re still married
Eh?

Then in Sumatra the girl helping at the hairdressers, her hand was cut off across the palm, all four fingers gone. I remember thinking what in dogs name happened to you? Later I realised it probably was done in dogs name, as some kind of women control Muslim punishment thing

All these folks had their bodies grievously marred through ill will or apathy, And all I say is losing a hand is a cunt!

Nominated by: Three Strokes

...specifically season 4.

I have to admit that I thought Seasons 1 and 2 of The Crown were rather a good watch, not least for the authentic and sumptuous sets. Anyway, fast forward to Season 4 and its portrayal of Margaret Thatcher as a brutal woman, directly responsible for 3 million unemployed and her deliberate breakdown of UK society into ‘self-interested individuals’.

They even made out that the famous Queen’s bedroom intruder, Michael Fagan, was pushed to scale the palace walls because of Thatcher’s policies. Then there was Gillian Anderson as Thatcher, who, despite two voice coaches managed to make Thatcher sound like a croaking old lady on her death bed.

There was good and bad to Thatcher but it seems we will never get a dramatisation that will ever give a balanced depiction. The bias just keeps coming and coming.

Nominated by: Cuntologist

A nomination for the Vaccine Bonanza, you wait for months and suddenly three arrive at the same time (just like the old bus stop scenario)

In the space of a week, Pfizer, Moderna and Oxford/AZ are on the brink of rolling out a safe working vaccine. The first two are new tech with the latter being the traditional vaccine, The first has a bit of a handicap requiring storage at -80C and you need two hits.

Here is the good news, the UK government have ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer one (net 20 million), 5 million of the Moderna vaccine and 100 million of the Oxford/AZ, so there will be enough to go around ………..

But! Who will get what and when, who will be first, will people be given a the choice of which vaccine they want, that will be the next step in the vaccine saga, fulled as usual by the media.

Stay tuned for the great vaccine scramble and to make it even more complicated the government have three more on order should they be effective and approved.

It will all be over by Christmas 202?

Nominated by: Sick of it 

I would like to nominate:

Marcus Rashford (again)

From Sky News website:

Marcus Rashford launches book club so children can experience ‘escapism’ of reading.

He wishes he had been given the chance to read earlier in life. Ever heard of a Library, Marcus? The books there are free!! Pretty much every school also has a library.

He says he only started reading at 17. I could read perfectly well as a child. However, I had no interest in reading books until the last few years. You can’t force a kid who has countless tv channels, x-box, the internet, or some rival gang member to stab, to be interested in reading.

Grrrrr. Rant over.

Nominated by: Robin Bastard