I thought Lib Dem leader Swinson erred badly in
pushing the other opposition parties to an election.
Then, since a pact between the two nasty parties was
ruled out by Johnson, things looked a little different and I fantasised about
the possibilities of a hung parliament leading to a genuine alliance of all
Remain MPs from Remain constituencies – including Labour – finally lancing
the suppurating Brexit boil.
Sadly, if no one else – some Brexiters may have
read my blog last week and my fantasy was short lived. Farage again proved that
he is as adept at swivelling on a stick and ignoring anything he may have said
three minutes previously as the leaders of the two major parties. His democracy
botherers will now not stand – he says – in direct challenge to Tory seats in
Leave voting areas.
Plus, you only have to note the stepping down of
Green candidate for Filton as he near fainted like a Gothic heroine in a bad
Victorian novel at the prospect of the Leave alliance “rank opportunism” to see
why the right almost always get their way in these circumstances. Opportunity
is EXACTLY what sane folk need right now.
So – incredibly weary and lost for words as I am –
here is an old doodle. It pencils the way the elite have crapped on ordinary
people since 1983 when Thatcher began selling off what had been
retrieved for us after WWII. And yet still the nasties enjoy the
votes of huge swathes of the very people they are screwing.
And here is my extreme granny’s coping mechanism
which I recommend if you are truly truly as desperate as I am. The water is
Loch Long - Ardentinny. That is me (you can just see my head in the first pic)
at the weekend – and yes I am swimming in a loch here in Scotland in NOVEMBER…
I was so cold when I got out, my skin felt as if it
was on fire but at least I could not form a coherent thought about Brexit - or
anything else for that matter…
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For light relief check out my new (to be launched
early 2020) comedy novel Sex Violence & the Wrong Mobility Scooter or
if you fancy a dystopian peek at where we are headed try Zero One Zero Two or
if you want a fantasy adventure for your young reader that actually stars a
girl hero all the way through – one who doesn’t fade out – check out the Eleanor
trilogy starting with Eleanor & Dread Mortensa by visiting my
author page -