But not those fine folks over at Walker’s Crisps. They proudly proclaim on the back of their recently redesigned packaging that while we’re all complaining about the rain, they can’t get enough of it. More rain means more potatoes apparently. Bad timing, Walkers.
We’ve been lucky here in Manchester really and managed to avoid the torrential downpours which have brought some extreme flooding to most of the country, which is rather ironic for a city affectionately labelled as the ‘rainy’ one by many. Who am I kidding? We’ve had some horrendous downpours, fortunately though most of it hasn’t sat. Around the country, the official response to the flooding has hardly been admirable in the last few weeks, but the armed forces have been doing a remarkable job, whether it’s the RAF in their Sea King helicopters rescuing trapped families, or the army distributing millions of litres of bottled water to some of the most badly affected areas.
But while some areas are thankfully getting back on their feet, in others it’s not only the flooded streets and lack of electricity that are causing problems. It’s the sub-human, cretinous little vandals who I can only label as clinically braindead. There are people whose homes have been ruined, property destroyed and lives thrown into disarray by the flooding, who have no electricity or even running water thanks to treatment plants and electrical sub-stations (intelligently) built on flood plains becoming disrupted, and what do these moronic idiots roaming the streets with nothing better to do inflict upon them? Looting homes, stealing cars and perhaps most bizarrely, vandalising emergency fresh water tanks which have been placed in areas where running water might not be restored for up to a week. Where does anyone get off on doing that? These idiots have actually put some effort into attacking and piercing the tanks, for what? To deprive their neighbours of drinking water? It’s disgusting, but just another example of the kind of people this country is nurturing right now.
I could get philosophical at this point, and reflect on the fact there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who live in worse conditions every day of their life, who always drink from dirty water and never enjoy the luxuries afforded to even the poorest families in this country. But that’s another blog altogether, and it’ll only make me even angrier than the low lives closer to home do.
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