I like jam. It’s a reminder of old times where preserving fruit in the good times in order to tide you over in the winter months. Planning for the future is a great idea, but these days we’ve lost touch with the seasons when we can buy what we want when we want. If only I could finish a jar of it! But I never seem to eat enough and end up throwing it away.

Our Prime Minster has recently made a comment about scraping the mould off the top of some old jam in order to eat the good stuff underneath. As usual, I haven’t looked to closely about her full comments and the context, but that’s not the point. She doesn’t need to scrape the mould off jam, so I can only think that’s what she’s suggesting that the rest of us will be preparing for. On the other hand, she’s promising jam today, evening if it is a bit old and horrible. You won’t even know that the sweet jam is making you sick.

It is a bad idea to eat the jam. The reason is that, it can affect the jam below and flow down in to it. You can cut the mould off cheese if you’re paying attention to cut a chunk far enough away from the mould, but jam is a no no. So why is the PM suggesting a course of action which is at best ill advised, and harmful to people? I wonder if she uses out of date insulin. And what use is jam when there’s no bread on the shelves?

All I can conclude about mouldy jam is that it’s either not too much of a risk (which it would be) or that no-one is desperate enough to eat it. But I’m still confused about the leader of our country giving bad advice in order to value signal that she’s just like everyone else. After all, she’s in a sticky enough situation as it is. Perhaps she eats a lot of jam to keep her sugar levels up.

The overall message must be that we have to learn to live with a little less in the near future. This is a strange play on the jam tomorrow analogy. Sweet sweet jam! And by all means start planning for a tough winter, even though it will be nice and sunny in the next few months. It was her keep calm and carry on message. Now I’m thinking if the Hartley’s Gollywog will make a return to our shelves.