Secret meetings. Famous litter-pickers!

Here’s an odd twist on conspiracy theories. Toby Helm, the Observer Newspaper’s political editor wrote this weekend:

“An extraordinary cross-party summit bringing together leading leavers and – including Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – has been held in high secrecy to address the failings of Brexit and how to remedy them in the national interest, the Observer can reveal.

The two-day gathering of some of the country’s most senior Labour and Tory politicians from both sides of the Brexit debate, together with diplomats, defence experts and the heads of some of the biggest businesses and banks, was held at the historic Ditchley Park retreat in Oxfordshire on Thursday afternoon and evening, and on Friday.

Documents from the meeting, obtained by the Observer, describe it as a “private discussion” under the title: “How can we make Brexit work better with our neighbours in Europe?””

Well, well! I expect anyone who reads this blog knows I voted to remain in Europe but that’s old history now. The fact remains that Brexit seems to have been monumentally mishandled even if many people are denying this completely. Secret meetings though!! I wonder if we’ll ever here the conclusions they  come to. 

On a Sunday we like to listen to Desert Island Discs. If the discs chosen are not always completely to our liking, we always enjoy the theme tune. In the unlikely event that I should be invited onto the programme I would have to have that theme tune as one of my eight choice. This morning we heard David Sidaris, always interesting to listen to. At some point he talked about his mania for litter collecting, with a story of meeting a large tattooed man and watching him to see if he turned out to be the litter-dropper his appearance suggested he might be. They got into conversation, because David Sidaris is the kind of person who talks to everyone. Congratulating David Sidaris for his litter-picking work, he went on to say he too goes round keeping his own area tidy and showed photos of his local litter-picking team. Which just goes to show how appearances can be deceptive. We need to be careful about stereotyping! 

Coincidentally, when we go out with our trusty litter-picker we usually say we are “doing a Sidaris”! 

Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!