A reporter on BBC World just said something about 'getting inside Putin's head' and all I can think is that is the last feckin' place I want to be.

Morning campers! I have just got an advert on my Facebook. It was for something called the European Conservative. I am just wondering why? Would it be something I'd be interested in? They look like potential grooming agents. Maybe it is because I once read an article from the Telegraph for free. Besides, that dunce in number 10 Clowning Street is hardly a good role model for the conservatives these days is he? More like the EDL by the looks of it, but without the heart. 

Good news folks. My order of one jacket from the UK has been liberated!!! There hasn't been this much consternation since a certain Mr Gonzalez was witholding my smalls, my ropa interior, yes, my Marks and Sparks lingerie which were languishing in a customs unit somewhere in the Basque country. Said garments could not be released until I provided proof of payment, proof of source of material, identification of myself and so on and so forth. Similar thing has happened but this time stuck in customs in Barajas airport in Madrid, but worse, as this time I have had to cough up 55 euros to pay for customs duties and fill out more forms and wasted my valuable time doing so. This is the final nail, the last straw I can tell you. Dozens of British companies that I love are now impossible to buy from. They either no longer sell to European countries or customs charges etc need to be paid. Governments answer to small businesses is to look for trade in the Pacific regions. Oh yes, 'cos they are crying out for tweed and Stilton in the Southern hemisphere! Other answer was to open a warehouse in the Netherlands and employ the Dutch.  If only there were some system to get round this, you know like a Customs Union or single market. I suppose it is only a matter of time before the UK has to sign up to one or the other or both. God knows how as that means paying a load of money or adopting the Euro or any of the other things that people didn't vote for. Perhaps that was the plan all along. Well done clever dicks!

My late father continues to haunt me. I can hear his voice. Around the time of Stephen Lawrence's murder. It was about Sir Paul Condon ( Head of the Met )

'I don't know what you think of that Paul Condon'. ( Marked pause waiting to see what I said)

No answer, so proceeds, 'seems like an amicable bloke'.

Still no answer.

No answer gives him carte blanche which I guess is my intended wish and possibly his. 

'Actually, he seems like a bit of an arsehole'

Glances over to see my reaction and continues.....

'Look, to be perfectly frank I can't stand the bastard'.

And so it goes. We have come full circle. We don't need to watch Line of Duty to know that when I say to Mr van de Ven that I do not like Cressida Dick and I can't stand her and I can't quite put my finger on it and he says 'of course you can't. She's a copper, what do you expect?' 

And here we are. Again. ACAB. Nothing, as Theresa May would say, has changed.  

If Johnson gets away with it, like he has so many times before, the depressing thing will be that he will see it as a victory. It will be just another demoralising moment where he is getting one over the rest of us. You can just see him smirking and muttering, 'phew, got away with that one too, what's to stop me now?' 

When the Tories told Boris Johnson he was going to be Prime Minister and he said, ''I am not sure, I don't think I'm up to it'', in that modest way of his, they then said, ''don't be ridiculous! A five year old could do it. That's why we thought of you!''

The state of it! Who? Boris 'The Cock' Johnson that's who. PM of the UK. Where? Photo in El Pais of him in a face mask that looks like he took it off to wipe his mouth clean of food and put it back on again. A feckin' disgrace! A man who looks like he wipes his arse with his towel. A man who needs to be told when to change his underwear. Gives true meaning to the expressions 'swivel eyed loon' and 'Turnip Taliban'. Words out that he had to be blocked in his office with chairs like a puppy or a toddler when he had Covid so when he bulldozed his way through, without said mask on may I add, staff could hear him, so had full warning he was on his way. How anyone in their right mind thought this guy could ever realistically be a PM only confirms how empty headed, celebrity obsessed and gullible folk can be. Except his family, his colleagues and so on. They all knew but did nothing to stop him and they complain when youngsters run off to join cults! A grown man, unhinged and proud of it left to run the country and during a pandemic. Well done the lot of you I say. Keep up the good work. Who next? Rishi Sunak? Liz Truss probably. They will put a woman in and sell the idea that it is always a woman who has to clean up the mess. Six months down the line it will be the same but without the alcohol. I could go on but am just getting over my third vaccine and I can just about stomach the news these days. Sack the bleedin' lot of 'em!!

Here he is....

https://elpais.com/internacional/2022-01-16/los-escandalos-de-johnson-y-de-la-familia-real-hunden-al-reino-unido-en-una-crisis-institucional.html