I was on holiday last week, having the first few days off work since well before Christmas.

As this is the second 'Staycation Summer', it meant swapping the rural bliss of Lincolnshire and Rutland for the rural bliss of North Yorkshire.

In 2019, I watched the Eurovision Song Contest from my hotel room on a Greek Island enjoying the company of a bottle of wine. This year, me and the wine watched Britain's poor performance at home in Grantham.

Anyway, for those who haven't take a break year, brace yourself for a few changes.

The first thing you will notice is everything will be so much more crowded. Remember, we have people staying at home, who would otherwise have gone overseas, like me, for example.

So expect queueing traffic, perhaps like what you might remember decades ago before the dual carriageways, motorways and by-passes were built.

Now, the traffic queues will be on the bits where they never got round to upgrading, such as the A64 in North Yorkshire, or they will be on bits of motorway or dual carriageway where they totally misjudged traffic growth.

We have seen the tourist promotion bodies say Rutland and South Kesteven expect a busy summer, and they will. It won't just be the traditional hotspots like Stamford or Rutland Water that will be packed, but lesser known places as people flee the crowds. Rutland and Lincolnshire both have the most delightful villages.

Remember, the Britain of today has a population approaching 70 million, compared to the 55 million or so of my youth in the 1970s, so you can understand where the extra crowds and congestion have come from.

When you are stuck in traffic, crawling through that south coast village if heading to Devon or Cornwall, don't forget to thank Swampy and all those greenies who helped a spineless Conservative government under John Major abandon so many road schemes.

Now, residents of such villages will suffer the traffic fumes, their children may be harmed, as I have heard is the case of one south coast village. Instead of a lovely dual-carriageway by-pass built already, the best such places might hope for is a single carriageway after 2030, if the village accepts 1000 houses!

It will be similar in our part of the world too!

There is nothing 'green' about congestion and we must remember how former PM Gordon Brown encouraged drivers to buy diesel cars when it turned out the particulates from such vehicles were far more dangerous than anything carbon dioxide can do.

Always remember the folly of politicians.

We should also expect extra costs too. I have noticed sharp increases already from the price of fish and chips, to Chinese restaurants, and a few pubs are increasing the price of a pint as well.

It's not that they are ripping us off, trying to make up for lost time and earnings, but their costs have risen too. My local chippie told me the price of cardboard boxes has increased. And we mustn't forget the cost of all that hand sanitiser, masks and warning signs.

And expect queues here, as I'm told social distancing means venues are allowed fewer staff in the kitchen or the bar, so they cannot serve as quickly as they would like and once did. Hence, a couple of long waits for lunch last week and also last night.

We mustn't forget hypocrisy too!

This week, we have seen Boris take a private jet to that G7 summit in Cornwall while tweeting about 'building back better' with a greener and cleaner world at the same time.

But, but, but, flying? In a private jet? Isn't that bad for the planet? What will his new wife 'Princess Nut Nuts' say? Why couldn't the PM have shown his environmentalist credentials by letting the train take the strain? Then, he might have a better idea of what it is like using the congested West Coast Line.

Boris could have driven too, or at least let someone drive for him. Then he could also have enjoyed the roadworks along the M4.

But as someone once said, rules are for little people!

Indeed, as the world and his wife arrive in Cornwall, it does beg the question why are none of them in quarantine!

And couldn't they have used Zoom instead, or maybe Microsoft Teams? Still, there's nothing like a good shindig in a top hotel!

Maybe being a world leader offers greater protection against Covid-19 than eating a 'substantial meal' like a Scotch Egg did last autumn!

It's as if our political leaders are trolling the travel industry as they fly into Cornwall without a care, without restriction, whilst our own government seems to engineer as much damage it can.

You are told you it is safe to visit Portugal and then you have the rug pulled from under your feet, yet the Portuguese infection rates are no worse than ours! Last summer we could travel more freely, and there was no vaccine!

No wonder people are less keen to go abroad later this summer as who knows what government might do next!

But as I say, rules are for little people.

Indeed, sticking with the summit, have you seen the pictures of them all together, with little or no social distancing, Joe Biden with his arm around Emmanuel Macron, and so on.

Just a few weeks ago, the poor Queen was forced to sit all alone at the funeral of her husband of 60 years, yet the royal family, Her Majesty included, have been dragged out to serve the government by turning up and meeting the leaders as if they were part of their bubble.

Forget the pictures of elbow bumping world leaders, or them standing spaced apart like superheroes, that was just for show.

As I say, rules are for little people.

Indeed, look on twitter and you can even see a clip of Matt Hancock arriving in Downing Street or somewhere wearing a mask, purely for the cameras of course, and then taking it off as soon as he gets inside.

And it was barely a week ago when Michael Gove was 'pinged' by the NHS test and trace app, but rather than having to self isolate like anyone else, he gets to trail a new daily testing system.

Yes, rules are for little people.

Now, tomorrow we should be told about what may happen on the 21st, when we hope we will see 'Freedom Day' when the government was set to remove

Covid restrictions. But sadly, it is not looking good right now.

The Daily Mail and the Telegraph have been reporting the case of easing or ending the restrictions. They have put it better than me, but we do have four-fifths of the population, be it through previous infection or vaccination, now having Covid-19 anti-bodies to protect you against serious illness. Some 99 per cent of the 'vulnerable' now have such protection.

We also see falling rates of infection in India, where that latest variant comes from that various officials and other media are hyperventilating over. So our time will come when that too effectively disappears.

Our hospitals also contain very few Covid-19 cases. The North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust reported 'single figures' this month out of nearly 1,000 beds. ULHT has recently reported similar.

The 'numbers' as I call them, are also better than the most optimistic forecast from SAGE.

Remember, lockdown was imposed 15 months ago to 'flatten the curve' and 'protect the NHS', initially just for a few weeks. But all it has done is delay the virus spreading, thus prolonging the agony, and storing up trouble for the future. The only thing that might 'overwhelm' the NHS is it playing catch up with all the cancer and other other treatments it did not perform due to lockdown.

Whilst other media frets over a handful or two of Covid deaths each day, 450 a day die from cancer, and then we have heart disease, diabetes and so on, as reported here.

And it has just been announced alcohol consumption also rose in the UK during lockdown, something I can personally verify, along with less healthy 'comfort meals' and take-aways to help cheer you up and relieve the boredom of lockdown. So many now have a 'lockdown belly', myself included.

Overall, nearly 128,000 have died of Covid-19 despite or because of three lockdowns, worse than happened in Sweden based on per head of population, where no lockdowns took place.

And yet, when I speak out against a policy that hasn't worked, I am accused of being a 'p*llock' and of wanting to 'let it rip.'

Well, the kind of easing I support has happened in the US, most notably in Florida and Texas, where restrictions have been removed and case and death rates continue to tumble. Vaccines have been delivered and those at risk are protected.

Mask wearing is also no longer required, with certain states and politicians showing the case for wearing them is mixed at best and they also back this up with scientific advice too.

No wonder the UK is now seeing campaigns against mask wearing, with one calling for people to stop wearing them after the 21st, adding to the mass anti-lockdown protests we have seen in London and elsewhere already.

This is the dilemma for our own politicians, one of trust.

We have repeatedly been told that 'Freedom' will be coming, that it will be dictated by data not dates.

The evidence, the data is there, to give us our freedoms, so we don't have to wear a mask, so shopping is a pleasure not a chore, that we can properly enjoy a pub like we used to, with its atmosphere as it used to be and as it should be.

We can also enjoy those events, the weddings, the beer festivals, the country shows and so on that makes life more enjoyable.

But it's like we have killjoy politicians, drunk on power, or under the thumb of wrongly chosen scientific advisers, whose views contrast with other medical experts, and all we get is no.

Will they let us have what they have promised time and time again or do the conspiracy theorists have it right that lockdown will return and last and we don't get our freedoms back?

This is the issue the PM, the MPs and all the politicians face this coming week- one of trust, one of letting the people choose, personal responsibility, the integrity of government and the status of Britain as a free country.

But either way, the politicians will still do as they like, since as I said, rules are for little people.

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