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It's a beautiful day out there, absolutely stunning. It came in about eight degrees this morning, nicely chilled just the way I like it.

The sun is shining on the whole of London, I'd like to say. Yesterday was a little bit on the glum side.

But today I'm feeling good because there's a lot to talk about, a lot to discuss, and much to be deciding upon.

Because guess what?

As the world turns, here's what it feels like to me.

It feels like we keep passing the same point.

You know, when you're on a roundabout, I don't mean the kind of you drive around.

I mean the kind that you get on in a fairground.

You just keep going round and round and every now and again there's Boris Johnson again standing at a lectern telling you

that oh well you know you just need one more booster that's all that's going to have to have to be

required for you to be able to get through the winter to make sure we don't have to stop for

Christmas to make sure we don't have to make it impossible for you to have a New Year's Eve party

round and round and round we go where we stop nobody knows. But I'll tell you what,

it's starting to really grind my gears, for one of a better word. I was thinking of something

else to say there. But here's the thing, right? Yesterday, the Prime Minister hinted at a practical

vaccine mandate for all those who have been double jab. You will now have to be triple jab.

That's what he reckons, right? But it might not happen until the spring.

Meanwhile, patients are dying in ambulances because of delayed hospital handovers, as many as 12,000 people are suffering or dying as a result.

The NHS is still not fit for purpose, but all the government cares about is the bleeding booster jab.

Now, call me old-fashioned, but I know an awful lot of people

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