The festive season. A time for peace and goodwill to all men, hatchets to be buried, enemies forgiven and the misguided excused.
in that noble spirit. Salut! should rise to the occasion and present its Christmas greetings to one and all.
But there will be exceptions.
This is my list but it may be incomplete - please add your own candidates - and is in no particular order:
1 Brexiters in general unless they have recanted
2 Lord Frost and Liz Truss in particular
3 Nigel Farage
4 Members and supporters of HM Government
5 D Trump esq
6 Anyone I’ve heard of called Le Pen
7 M Eric Zemmour
8 French electors who would vote for 6 or 7
9 Racists
10 Xenophobes
11 The Iranian regime
12 V Putin
13 Kim Jong-un and any other vile dictators and regimes I’ve overlooked
14 Owners, players, staff and supporters of any team that stands in tbe way of Sunderland’s promotion
15 Squirrels that eat my bird food
16 Anti-vax superspreaders
17 Anyone who would forbid the RNLI to save refugees and migrants
18 The owners, staff and viewers of GB News
19 From a wide choice, those who wrote for or read the Daily Express without having to avoid inhaling
20 Climate change deniers
There will be exemptions. I do know some house-trained Brexiters who remain in denial to this day. They can have reduced doses of my Christmas cheer.
There are honourable exceptions to the blanket condemnation of Tories, just not very many. And many more individuals should have been separately listed for their services to and support of the abomination that is Brexit. I do have some otherwise kindly and thoughtful friends who will deplore the absence of Newcastle United from the list. I am altogether too mature for such silliness. But I may well gloat if they go down.
But since it is the season of goodwill, let us remember a time when Liz Truss and Lord Frost were not, shall we say, hard of thinking:
So a very merry Christmas to both of them as they were and to all those not featured my list of 20. Separate greetings appear at my folk music site Salut! Live.
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