Quote Originally Posted by outwoodclaret View Post
There should be a Speakers Corner in Manchester there really should but even if there was I couldn’t go there because I have been self-isolating or shielding since March 24 so you lot are going to be the grateful or otherwise recipients of my rant instead. So far as Dominic Cummings is concerned his cross country meanderings have all taken place since Mrs Outwood and I began following Government advice. I don’t care which party politicians or senior public figures adhere to I expect them to lead by example and he has not. It isn’t much to ask is it but my rot with the political establishment began with the expenses scandal and positively snowballed when a cabal of remainer MPs just stuck two fingers up to 17 million of the electorate over Brexit. I have become increasingly disillusioned with the BBC and journalism as a whole as I have tried to nurse my sometimes fragile mental state through the Coronavirus crisis. In fact I don’t watch the news on TV anymore though Mrs Outwood God bless her does like to tune in. I am sickened by the constant carping from some quarters about this country. I could swear they hate it, our history and our flags. I am stuck in lockdown and will be until June 15th when we may well receive another letter with revised guidance. At the moment I feel I am being fed a diet of fakes including sad to say fake football in empty stadiums. I want to see real leadership with guts determination pride and not least some hope. Is that too much to ask? Probably sadly it is.
Nice rant Outwood, however, when you calm down and look at things objectively, you will come to the conclusion that we have not had any leaders for man years, most politicians are in the job for their own benefit and their constituents are way down on their list, the media is fuelled by whoever is running their particular show and each organisation has an agenda.
They only tell you what they want you to know and will continue to do so and there will always be us and them.
Just the observations from a happy and contented individual who has woken up this morning to another sunny day and is happy. Off to get my niece's dog for a wander in the woods for a couple of hours ---self isolation at its best.

I hope that you manage to stay sane and that you and Mrs O will be OK at the other end of all this ---whenever that is.
In the meantime, please feel free to rant away on here ---you will always get some sort of response!