hmmm,
Today Ted Cruz tweeted some insulting nonsense about the NHS and the Alfie Evans case. He got a lot of responses, and one of them was me. I was nearly an American, but it’s a good thing I wasn’t. My parents remained in Britain and my mum got the free healthcare that improved her quality of life. My family didn’t have to go bankrupt.
But I like America! I think it’s a beautiful place. When I was 12 my family went to Florida for two weeks. (I turned 13 while there.) I learned today that while I was asleep at our first night in the holiday villa, there was some sort of major problem with the burglar alarm and the police turned up. They ordered my dad out of the house with his hands up, pointing guns at him. For the whole rest of the holiday he didn’t tell us kids that because he knew we’d be scared. He did a really damn good job, seeing as I’m 30 now and look back on that time with little else but fondness.
Obviously he wasn’t shot, which I imagine is owed largely to the colour of his skin and that he knew how to react in such a situation (having lived in America once.) But god, life seems so fragile in that country.