This is where I would really like to be more candid about what I do… but it would be very outing
I have a recollection of a woman who had put some balloons out for a party for some children outside her house. A few children playing in the garden. I think for a birthday. I watched two policeman quiz her in her garden. I watched them from across the street doing this to her, and they saw and they left.
Otherwise there was not a soul in the street.
I thought then Johnson had done something wicked. He had created a dobbers in society overnight, and perfectly normal behaviour was now sub criminal.
Later it came out about parties and cake and whatever. I don’t think the full story was ever clear.
I think of all the people criminalized or scared shitless by his rules, the culture he made and the mental harm his government did. I think many people barely handled it, and the damage it did to our society was immense. He was a total inadequate