Whilst understanding and agreeing with the need for the present lockdown,I do hope some leeway is given to the rats of London.
I hear that the police are to go out to seek and fine loiterers on park benches.
Tis grand for the bigwigs and BBC execs and well paid staff in their mansions and wotnot...Hampstead of Islington? But wotsabout the renters and council tenents a-cooped up in their 6x4 cells in bedsits or tenement rat hole high rises. Sometimes these 'holding cells' have abusive fathers/mothers,cranky partners,all off-their-heads with poverty incomes. Most of our leaders and account holders live in large houses with good gardens...even grounds. All right for some. Space,good income,good health,all a-being paid. Meanwhile in the rat-holes of some parts of concreted over London...well,need I go on?
Meawhile...in another city, in the densely packed island that is becoming overcrowded England...I walk back from my local Co-op. OMG! Yeh,10 cars parked in a 3 bedroomed house front drive. The garden which once was shrubs and earth has been bricked over. I guess the house to have had 3 maybe 4 bedrooms,with the one bedrrom a box bedroom. Now we have 10 occupants. I guess 3,4 or 5 can sleep in one bedroom. Or maybe the living room has been taken over to house more beds. Cram 'em in. Shish...what a dump. And what if you had 'that' as a neighbour.
But down the road and the uni campus...Chung centre(I mean no offence to any Chinese person). Lottsa and lottsa rat flats...all around a a dumpster river surround by even more rat flats. On the pavement and about the river and pavements...pizza boxes,discarded shoes,shopping bags,old clothes,tatt...and lots of it. In one rat flat one bedorromed falt there's a sign(half peeling off...) 'F5CK Boris'. Wottadump! Have you seen the the overcrowded cities of China? I dont wish to diss the folk or the country...but,in some parts...it does look the pits. Still,we have it coming here.
And still they come.
They must come.
They call it growth.