Well, it looks like another 5 years of misrule in the UK. Thankfully, Corbyn will step down and (hopefully) make way for a more centre left leader. Boris won on the basis of lies and deceit, which the British people seem somewhat susceptible to of late. We are turning into America and we now have our own mini-Trump. Our capacity for self-immolation seems to know no bounds.
You reap what you sow and I don't hold out much hope for the NHS, nor indeed any public service where there's a quick buck to be made from selling it off to the highest bidder, once it has been run into the ground by starvation in the name of tax cuts for the wealthy.
Politics is broken - not longer is it seen as a calling to public service, but a route to riches with lucrative directorships after a spell in government. We, the electorate, collude in that, by voting for deceit.
Boris can now get on with getting Brexit done, but getting it done will not happen at the end of January - it will take years and years, years during which the UK will be diminished and wealth inequality will grow. The turkeys have indeed voted for the proverbial Christmas.
However, perhaps Boris' two-faced approach to the election has been a ruse all along. In the First Past the Post system, any party which can consolidate support from either the centre right and far right (or centre left and far left) is at a natural advantage. There are too any nuances between the centre and the left for that to happen on that side of the equation, but all Boris had to do was out-bigot the bigots in the Brexit Party, which is what he's achieved and is evidenced by all the lies and double-speak that has been the hallmark of his campaign. Perhaps, now he's gained his majority, we'll see a new Boris who realises he has to put public services first to stand any chance of winning another election in 5 years.
As an aside, I always thought that with having a rampant SNP north of the border, it was a bad strategic decision to choose a LibDem leader from a Scottish constituency.
I wonder whether politicians have ever thought of recruiting a hunting pack of Jehova's Witnesses for door-to-door canvassing. I'm not so sure it would work though, as Jehova's Witnesses are renowned for discovering that everyone is out, even housebound agoraphobics
You reap what you sow and I don't hold out much hope for the NHS, nor indeed any public service where there's a quick buck to be made from selling it off to the highest bidder, once it has been run into the ground by starvation in the name of tax cuts for the wealthy.
Politics is broken - not longer is it seen as a calling to public service, but a route to riches with lucrative directorships after a spell in government. We, the electorate, collude in that, by voting for deceit.
Boris can now get on with getting Brexit done, but getting it done will not happen at the end of January - it will take years and years, years during which the UK will be diminished and wealth inequality will grow. The turkeys have indeed voted for the proverbial Christmas.
However, perhaps Boris' two-faced approach to the election has been a ruse all along. In the First Past the Post system, any party which can consolidate support from either the centre right and far right (or centre left and far left) is at a natural advantage. There are too any nuances between the centre and the left for that to happen on that side of the equation, but all Boris had to do was out-bigot the bigots in the Brexit Party, which is what he's achieved and is evidenced by all the lies and double-speak that has been the hallmark of his campaign. Perhaps, now he's gained his majority, we'll see a new Boris who realises he has to put public services first to stand any chance of winning another election in 5 years.
As an aside, I always thought that with having a rampant SNP north of the border, it was a bad strategic decision to choose a LibDem leader from a Scottish constituency.
I wonder whether politicians have ever thought of recruiting a hunting pack of Jehova's Witnesses for door-to-door canvassing. I'm not so sure it would work though, as Jehova's Witnesses are renowned for discovering that everyone is out, even housebound agoraphobics
Took a little trip down Mill Crescent in Westerleigh before coming home yesterday evening to see whether their annual, charity Christmas light show had started yet, and it had.
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