Sap Rising

May in Weardale and maybe throughout the UK tends to be a conditional month as its name infers. Some years may be hot and dry, others cold and wet ... or a combination of conditions. This year, 2021, Spring was slightly behind after a colder winter due to global warming. Nature has a way to delay plants to save too many suffering, though the sheep up here seem to cope, since lambs are born with warm woolly coats already on ... after all, the market for their tender meat allows them about six months of gambolling about, which is charming for us all to see, including the farmers working flat out at all hours to help the mothers bear the babies and protect them from the lambing storms, a normal event up here in sheep country. The cycle of life goes on.

On the political level, the previous Prime Minister of this island (plus a part of Ireland, for now) was called Theresa May, and she was well known for being unsure which way to turn. The current clown, was elected after being selected to lead the nation out of the European Union with a firm hand, despite previously, as Mayor of London, being firmly in favour of playing a part in the EU. Not to say he's opportunistic or hungry for power, of course. And who could have imagined that this charming Eton Boy, with his sophistry and love of democracy in Ancient Greece, would join the worldwide plan to launch fascism far and wide? Including in Weardale, where a young friend of his called Rich, was elected, thanks to the votes of disenchanted Labour voters, believing the lies of the Tories and fed up with the corrupt rule of Labour in Local Authorities. Local Elections loom this week, coincidentally in the very year of Local Agenda 21, which is funny, because the Covid was launched in 2019, hence its code name. It all starts to fall in place. Watch out for increased powers for Local Authorities and groups of them, to devolve power not to local communities but to power hungry devolved Authorities already deeply involved in the closing of playgrounds, toilets, libraries and other services, in order to confuse the people and ramp up the Fear, the method designed to reset the world and reduce the population of humans deemed surplus to requirements. Watch out for buzz words like: Common Purpose, Building Back Better, Great Reset, New Normal and more as NLP continues to turn words upside down. SAGE (not wise); NICE (not nice); Full Fact (Lies); Anti-Vax (trust in Immune System and no trust in corrupt Big Pharma) and so on.

Who on Earth can we trust? Let's start with negation shall we? Strip away those best not trusted and see who's trustworthy. Which is many more than cynics may believe, and many fewer than fully hypnotised people, believing the BBC and other enemies of freedom and democracy, seem to trust ... Fear being corrosive and undermining what used to be common sense.

First, drop the divide and rule, a tactic used forever by power mad plutocrats, and instead unite and fight ... though not violently this time please!
Brexit or Remain? That's settled for now, to the dissatisfaction of both sides.
Black or White? We're mostly over that in UK and EU, though US still has issues.
Carnivore, Omnivore, Veggie or Vegan? Decide for yourself, of course.
Other topics to dispute? Forget it for now, we all see the world differently anyway.

The sap is rising in the plants and trees, and in the blood of humans fed up with the loss of freedom. In the cities, mass demonstrations continue and will increase. In towns folks gather in Parks to discuss concerns and shake hands with friends and strangers. In rural areas, like Weardale, folks mostly crack on and ignore rules which make no sense, find exceptions if they feel like it, have no intention of informing on neighbours of their shocking habits of walking dogs many times each day, despite strict orders to stay indoors. Stay indoors? Are you kidding me? Indoors is where that virus lives, the one that kills the vulnerable, like every other coronavirus every other year. Outdoors is where fresh air and vit D from the Sun lives. My neighbour next door announced, when the Coup was launched on the false pretence of saving everyone from dying ever again: Right then, it's up to us, the healthy ones, to get out, get on and get infected, to build up herd immunity as soon as possible. Let the vulnerable decide whether to shelter or take their chances.
Heartless? No! It's common bloody sense ...

The Resistance is underway. It's not that dangerous you know. Wearing masks is not legally required, in fact it's unsafe in normal circumstances. Social distancing? That went out the window a while ago. Politely declining to obey orders? How hard is that? You may find the police have plenty of criminals to round up, without arresting ordinary people going about their normal business. And anyway, police officers are only ordinary people in uniforms, after all ...

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