It is just a few days from now, Britain on its own. Boris Johnson's remarks got my attention!
“All that’s really saying is the UK won’t immediately send children up chimneys or pour raw sewage all over its beaches,” he said. “We’re not going to regress, and you’d expect that.”
What is he referring to?
"This practice of sending small boys up and down chimneys in order to ensure that they were free of harmful creosote deposits was the norm in England for approximately 200 years. The use of child chimney sweeps became widespread after the Great Fire of London, which occurred in September of 1666."
I am not going to detail it at Christmas - it was considered a terrible chapter of child slavery with certain death by middle-age.
And sewage on the beaches? This is less clear - there are articles about raw sewage on the beaches last year. It may be that he is referring to maintaining environmental standards.
These are strange references, aren't they? Is this a remarkable statement on his part? No - not at all. Here's a marie claire.co.uk article HERE - he is famous for saying dreadful, racist, sexist things. This is the summary of his best/worst:
"'But did you know that Bo-Jo also once said Hilary Clinton was ‘like a sadistic nurse in a mental hopsital’? Or that he claimed he was more likely to be ‘reincarnated as an olive’ than become the PM? Or that he said women went to university because they ‘have got to find men to marry’?"
And here is his prediction for 2020:
"This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain."
We are very pleased to come to the close of 2020, and hoping that some of our politicians will fade into the rear view mirror, along with this difficult year.
We do get snowy Christmases - the first picture is 2018 and the second is 2020 - you can see our greenhouse is again its traditional white trim, and a streaking puppy is now on the scene.
