FREAKY SUNDAY

Well, where do I start.

At the beginning.  Ian spent most of the day at his Model Railway club, sorting out some issues prior to an exhibition they are attending over the Bank Holiday weekend.

He arrived back around three, then mowed the lawn - we have had so much rain in this past week, maybe I think someone is crying upstairs (in heaven, beyond the sky's, whatever is up there).  Crying because of the mess this country is in.  Maybe some old Labour Party activist from decades ago, maybe the founders of the NHS, maybe the people who put great into Great Britain, who knows.  The lawn was cut and all was well with the world (except that I stood on an upturned plug and have a bruise the size of a jam jar lid - well a 50p piece maybe).

We had our Sunday lunch....... then........

..... we started talking about the state of the country.  What George Orwell thought was going to happen and the irony in the books he wrote. 

Maybe we all live in a big bubble and outside of that bubble live the Government of the day.  Looking at us all, pointing, laughing, passing comment, feeding us what we need to know and hiding what we dont need to know..... are you with me, 1984 and Animal Farm.

As long as anyone can remember, whatever age, propaganda has existed.  For the older people, the Second World War, for us 60's baby's the troubles in Northern Ireland.

Margared Thatcher "banned" the voice of Gerry Adams from the news.  We were allowed to see the dialogue in the form of words running along the bottom of the screen.  This did nothing at all in enabling some form of peace process to start.  This was just to make Maggie feel better.  I was brought up being told that the IRA were bad bad bad, they were the Catholic side and they were bad.  They did all the bombings and blew everyone up.  We were not told about the Protestant Unionsist Communities.  We were not told about their attrocities.

Now the Government are trying to gag the BBC cause they are scared that the good old BBC will tell us the truth and expose their lies.  My daughter (15) asked me why the political parties say one thing prior to the election then do the opposite after the election.  Were they allowed to do this? But that is telling lies......

Cut the BBC TV License fee...... Cut freedom for us all.