It has been one year since the General Election that catapulted Boris Johnson from being seen as a side show to becoming the British Prime Minister with a thumping majority that defied the critics, the pollsters and knocked the stuffing out of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
The pace of change, especially on Brexit was significant and with a few months it became a secondary issue. We all celebrated the arrival of the New Year, a leap year no less. And no sooner had the masses recovered from the party season, Covid hit the world. Thanks to the incompetence of the Chinese, yet again a deadly virus was unleased into the world. We witnessed the WHO making things up, many believing purposefully to let the Chinese off the hook but President Trump called them out and shamed them on the international stage. Millions falling ill and according to the latest statistics: there have been more than 71m Coronavirus cases worldwide, more than 1.6m deaths and millions still recovering. For a full year, the overriding topic of discussion was Covid-19. Hardly any other news had traction. So, on the PM’s first year anniversary it was incredible news that Britain became the first country to administer the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine. As a nation we can now not only see the light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel, but we can also see that post-Brexit, the horizon ahead is clear for us to make a future fit for a healthy nation.
Our Chancellor, dishy Rishi, has ploughed billions of pounds into the economy to keep GB Ltd afloat. Not an easy task, but one that he carried out with dedication and empathy. We all know that as a nation we all must buckle up and do our bit to pay for all of this, so lest we forget, stop the whinging, it’s time to get stuck in and make a success of 2022 and beyond. Jeremy Corbyn lost not just an election, he lost the leadership of the Labour Party and recently, even lost the party whip. This JC was certainly not the Marxist messiah.
In February, the PM and Carrie Symonds announced they were expecting their first baby together.
By March COVID had become rampant and the Government COBRA team came into action. Football was suspended, if there was anything that brought home the seriousness of COVID, this was it. Followed swiftly with a ban on international travel and school closure. If that was not enough, the COVID left hook came into play and we saw the closure of nightclubs, theatres, cinemas, gyms and leisure centres, cafes, pubs and restaurants. Life changed for all of us. Thankfully, the British tradition of queuing came into its own, we did that so well. Of course, Captain Tom Moore, who raised £32m for NHS charities, brought a smile to the nation and was rightly knighted.
In June, the madness of Black Lives Matter, which was hijacked by some extremist groups, raised awareness as well as damaged race relations in one go. At our peril we allow these anarchists any more traction. Did you know that Britain returned three antique bronze sculptures to India more than 40 years after they were stolen from a Hindu Mandir in Tamil Nadu? It’s a start, now we await the return of thousands of other artefacts stolen during the era of the Raj!
And folks, this is just a small cross section of key events. 2022 awaits the brave, how are you all feeling?
