@YellowandGreenToBeSeen
I agree with you OP.
I’m glad they won as the played the best game but I hate how this government - of whom I could not be less proud - will misappropriate the win as their ‘will’ or doing (all whilst ignoring the rising Covid cases and blaming the wider population for acting irresponsibly).
This.
And it is beyond unfortunate that it is seemingly not acceptable to some to voice different opinions.
Just heard the news on the radio.
The second sentence was 'mens gatherings around football have contributed to the rise in covid cases'. They also clearly and accurately described it as men's football, which it is.
We are on mumsnet after all. Which on some level is supposed to analyse the interests and concerns of mums. What it says on the tin.
Plenty of people (and women) don't go out at all on a football night as they know after the match there will be men getting pissed, shouting, intimidating behaviour and possibly violence in the streets. So how is that 'freedom'? It also currently puts the staff in hospitality industry at risk.
Nothing to do with being 'depressed'. I'm sure that most of us 'mums' would appreciate more time off, less worry about finances, less worry about our kids getting ill if they are clinically vulnerable. A day out. Time off in general. Better working conditions. Not having to struggle with job insecurity, zero hours contracts. Being able to get a dentist apppointment if you have tooth ache.(two year backlog in some places if you can get a dentist on the NHS at all)
Football is not supposed to facilitate nationalism, division and hate. (the booing at other national anthems). It's a sport, lovely thing to do on a Sunday morning, outdoors across the country, lovely thing to do for young people, especially after all they've been through. Not my bag personally but nothing wrong with that.
But not as a distraction for all the suffering and frankly evil that is being perpetrated by this government at the moment in terms of deliberately increasing poverty and making peoples lives more difficult.
And as far as leaving the country is concerned...freedom of movement even without covid has been made more difficult by this government. Not so easy anymore to travel in Europe and find a job there, (which I did when I was younger and which I greatly regret for this generation of young people is no longer possible in the way that it was). That's just sad.
Europe came together not just for people to merge economies but also because trade, cultural exchange and friendship was a really good way to rebuild stability after the war. And yes, history is important.
This government is so saturated with sleaze it will burn itself out eventually. I'm hoping sooner rather than later.
They seem to believe that everyone is selfish, self-centred...
almost as if they want to reduce humanity to it's lowest common denominator.
Praying they will destroy themselves sooner rather than later.