As my readers by now know, I am not a fan of Boris Johnson, whilst I have no doubt he is a great hoot on a wild night out, the nearest he should be to Whitehall is a west end gentleman's club where he can discuss thrashing the help to his heart's content. It is unfathomable that this bumbling nincompoop is now in charge of leading the UK away from the safety net of it's nearest friends and neighbours and directly into the darkness of Trump's ugly face of capitalism.
Boris may be leading a nation of 60m+, but his election to the highest office in the land was limited only to a select few. Members of the tory party who had only a small selection of leadership candidates to choose from. The great British public have had no say whatsoever. Boris is good for all those billionaires, like Jacob Rees-Mogg, who intend to make fortunes from the island of England being lost at sea. Already we have seen large shipping contracts for companies who err, have no ships. Brexit will bring out every scammer, every con artist and every wide boy with a good line in selling Londons' bridges. The NHS is already being run down for the sale of the century.
The thing voters need to remember is that Boris Johnson is not a cartoon character from the Viz, nor is he a badly drawn caricature, he is all too real, and he is evil. Behind the playfully tousled hair and buffoonery, is a heart and soul intent on making as much dosch as he can for himself and his billionaire supporters. How much did ordinary Londoners make out of the London Olympics. Nothing. They were expected to work for free, like the serfs of old, their reward would be in heaven.
Boris Johnson represents the get rich(er) quick brigade. He goes along with everything that makes the tory party the nasty party, like robbing the poor to enrich the rich. Ie. the opposite of Robin Hood. As long as the poor and the working classes have just enough to live on, he and his ilk, can maintain the status quo. Working people do not earn enough to protest at being taken for granted and few now have strong unions to represent them. Employment, even on shit pay, is better than unemployment. And this is where vultures like Boris swoop in. Where non tories see the misery of unemployment, tories see an untapped, free, work resource. Thousands of units (people) to loan out to their manufacturing and retail donors. Don't for one moment be fooled into thinking Boris Johnson and his right wing cabinet will do anything to protect British workers from the devastating effects of a no deal Brexit.
On one of the simplest of dilemmas yet to come is the crisis in the NHS. We all know how much the NHS relies on foreign nurses and foreign workers, will they all disappear overnight?
Theresa May failed miserably with Brexit. There is nothing in Boris that gives hope for success. He is already preparing for no deal, because he knows he doesn't have a hope in hell of getting anything better than Theresa May. As tories, both are already privileged, self entitled twats, so negotiations of any sort, were never going to work. The Europeans, it would seem, are waiting for someone a tad more enlightened so must now be rolling on the floor laughing as Johnson steps up to the plate. To be fair, I expect Boris got the PM job, because it is a poisoned chalice. Any (tory) PM at this juncture, is in an unwinnable situation. Not only is the country divided, but so too is his party.
Boris Johnson was not elected by the people to take the UK out of Europe. He was elected by, almost literally, a handful of rich, middle aged white men with vested interests. We need a general election, and we need people to vote with the interests of their children and their children's children in mind. The idea that we can lock the gates and live with the same white neighbours for ever more, is not only ludicrous, it's downright creepy. It's the 21st century, people travel and move on, neighbourhoods cannot stand still in time and who wants them to? As the young move on, others take their place, it keeps the wheels of society turning.
The problem with Boris Johnson and his War Cabinet is that we are not at war. Not a good start, wouldn't we have preferred to hear he was preparing for peace talks? He is coming out fighting, too stupid to remember that fighting got Theresa May nowhere. We are one small nation against 27 nations who are united. We don't hold the upper hand. The UK is friendless and alone, Trump doesn't count because he is so far gone down the batshit crazy route, he can't be depended on for anything. Should the gaffe prone Boris meet the gaffe prone Trump anything could happen.
Sunday, 28 July 2019
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
BORIS! GAW'D 'ELP US
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, God Help Us. It has just been announced that Boris Johnson is our new Prime Minister. It's like the UK watched the catastrophe of making a narcissistic idiot who got lucky, the Commander in Chief, and said 'hold my beer'.
Boris Johnson is the Prime Minister because the Conservative party quite literally, have no one else. They have no-one dynamic, no-one the public can get behind, not even a politician who represents old, traditional, tory values. He doesn't even have the headmistress, I'm in charge qualities of Maggie Thatcher or Theresa May. Should he flex a giant whip, his colleagues will be rolling on the floor laughing. Boris is the prankster, the Bullingdon Boy, who shamelessly burns a £50 note in front of a homeless person.
Like Trump he doesn't read. All his prehistoric views and opinions were established in his privileged childhood. He cannot comprehend anything outside of his elite world. Right now he is probably rubbing his greedy little hands together and arranging State visits for Mohamed Bone Saw and Vladimir (I can dispose of your enemies) Putin.
On the plus side, putting Coco the Clown in charge of the Brexit negotiations could bring about a much needed General Election. I believe Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister could introduce to a new generation, the same upsurge in the nation's morale as that brought by Harold Wilson in the swinging sixties. Imagine a government that invests in science, technology, exploration, infrastructure, the arts, and most importantly of all, it's people?
It is astonishing that almost every generation, for at least the last 200 years, have voted their oppressors into government. They go along with the myth that rich (ergo successful) people know what is best for them. They overlook that rich (successful) people are rich and successful because they exploit people like them. It is easier to sell the idea that each and every one of us can be rich inconsiderate arseholes too than the idea that we can treat each other with kindness and respect.
We are a nation in turmoil. All of us, even the deranged nationalists and brexiters, know, deep down, that it's time to let the adults take over. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, have literally had years in which to prepare for this eventuality. They are amiable (vitally important) experienced, and wizened statesmen. On their team they have Keir Starmer, not always my favourite politician, but one of the few people able to understand the mathematics and logics of the nitty gritty issues that will directly affect workers in the UK.
Today will go down as a sad and shameful day for the UK. Who knows what the outcome will be on history. Like the USA, we have as leader of our nation, a man with no principles, no morals and no intention of doing anything for anyone other than himself. The UK, in the 21st century has as PM, another old Etonian, who takes glee in exploiting those working classes who are daft enough to believe he will in any way attempt to make their lives better.
Boris may wear baggy trousers and clown feet, but there is no friendly clown about him. He is the grotesque head that tries to lure children down drains, the laughing face of a tory party that impoverished the British people to the extent that food banks are a necessity, where people sleep and die outside the Houses of Parliament. Don't be fooled by his faux friendly exterior. This is a thug, he may pass himself off as a cute, accident prone toddler, but he is a dangerous idiot. Like Trump he will follow his own instincts, despite what he is told by his own advisors, the educated and the well informed and an alarmed, ready to march, public. We are about as close to Armageddon as we are ever likely to be.
Boris Johnson is the Prime Minister because the Conservative party quite literally, have no one else. They have no-one dynamic, no-one the public can get behind, not even a politician who represents old, traditional, tory values. He doesn't even have the headmistress, I'm in charge qualities of Maggie Thatcher or Theresa May. Should he flex a giant whip, his colleagues will be rolling on the floor laughing. Boris is the prankster, the Bullingdon Boy, who shamelessly burns a £50 note in front of a homeless person.
Like Trump he doesn't read. All his prehistoric views and opinions were established in his privileged childhood. He cannot comprehend anything outside of his elite world. Right now he is probably rubbing his greedy little hands together and arranging State visits for Mohamed Bone Saw and Vladimir (I can dispose of your enemies) Putin.
On the plus side, putting Coco the Clown in charge of the Brexit negotiations could bring about a much needed General Election. I believe Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister could introduce to a new generation, the same upsurge in the nation's morale as that brought by Harold Wilson in the swinging sixties. Imagine a government that invests in science, technology, exploration, infrastructure, the arts, and most importantly of all, it's people?
It is astonishing that almost every generation, for at least the last 200 years, have voted their oppressors into government. They go along with the myth that rich (ergo successful) people know what is best for them. They overlook that rich (successful) people are rich and successful because they exploit people like them. It is easier to sell the idea that each and every one of us can be rich inconsiderate arseholes too than the idea that we can treat each other with kindness and respect.
We are a nation in turmoil. All of us, even the deranged nationalists and brexiters, know, deep down, that it's time to let the adults take over. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, have literally had years in which to prepare for this eventuality. They are amiable (vitally important) experienced, and wizened statesmen. On their team they have Keir Starmer, not always my favourite politician, but one of the few people able to understand the mathematics and logics of the nitty gritty issues that will directly affect workers in the UK.
Today will go down as a sad and shameful day for the UK. Who knows what the outcome will be on history. Like the USA, we have as leader of our nation, a man with no principles, no morals and no intention of doing anything for anyone other than himself. The UK, in the 21st century has as PM, another old Etonian, who takes glee in exploiting those working classes who are daft enough to believe he will in any way attempt to make their lives better.
Boris may wear baggy trousers and clown feet, but there is no friendly clown about him. He is the grotesque head that tries to lure children down drains, the laughing face of a tory party that impoverished the British people to the extent that food banks are a necessity, where people sleep and die outside the Houses of Parliament. Don't be fooled by his faux friendly exterior. This is a thug, he may pass himself off as a cute, accident prone toddler, but he is a dangerous idiot. Like Trump he will follow his own instincts, despite what he is told by his own advisors, the educated and the well informed and an alarmed, ready to march, public. We are about as close to Armageddon as we are ever likely to be.
Thursday, 11 July 2019
RICH OLD MEN AND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN
What drives a certain category of men, lets call them 'Gammons who like 'em young' (Gammon is so deliciously insulting), who believe that having a young, beautiful woman hanging on their arm, will somehow make them appear virile and desirable. That other men will envy them and that other beautiful women will be curious as to what they are missing. They bask in the reflected glory of the beauty by their side.
It's all an illusion of course, while certain people will accept the shallowness of the above argument that the contestant with the best arm candy wins. More will be repulsed. Those men who seek ever younger partners as they themselves grow older, are clearly not mature or man enough to handle a grown woman who is their equal. And I am not talking about genuine May/December romances that happen spontaneously. Many of us have our own precious, 'Summer, the first time - she was 31, I was 17', moments, to look back on and smile. Some I am sure led to long, very real, relationships, and kudos to them say I, love is hard to find and I applaud them for holding onto it. I am, kinda, discussing misogyny.
I have, over a lifetime, come to categorise men into two kinds. Those who really love women and those who do not. I currently have it around 30/70 at the moment, those men who really love women being part of the much smaller group. And any woman who has made love to a man who really loves women, will know exactly what I am talking about. Those who really love women, can be divided into another subsection. Those who love women but don't stay around long (who shouldn't be missed), and those who remain hopelessly devoted forever more, (who should be rushed to the altar post haste).
The problem with those who don't stay around long, is, put simply, so many women, so little time. They are on a mission. They are spreading sweetness and light in their own seductive ways, and it must said, if you can avoid getting emotionally involved, they are worth the risk. They will paint your toenails, join you in the bath and make you breakfast. Every woman deserves the experience, its like all your spa days in one, with a few added extras. Just don't ever think you can be the one to pin him down.
The hopelessly devoted may lack the fun extras of those who don't stick around long, but they make up for it in mileage. Their heads won't be turned by a stunning new neighbour or the waitress who brings your drinks. The only down side, they won't be drawn into humdinger arguments just for the hell of it. They reply to everything with 'yes dear', a quality that I underrated for many years. To me love was Marlon Brando in a torn vest shouting 'Stella', the rain pouring down and the pair reuniting in a passionate embrace. All so they could get back to knocking seven bells out of each other. Now my biggest turn ons are 'can I get you a cuppa'.
But I digress, this blog began (in my head) with the very ugly and very sensational case of Jeffrey Epstein's arrest. Epstein and his ilk, are among that category of odious old men who really do not like women. They are stuck in that pre-adolescent stage of male development where girls are still the enemy and the way to get attention is to pull their hair or flatter them with a patronising comment. No wonder all the women in the Whitehouse wear their party frocks to work every day, probably in the hope that Trump will tell them how pretty they. Melania is permanently in a pristine prom dress proving, as if we don't already know, that Melania does no cooking, no washing up, and absolutely never rolls her sleeves up so she can get stuck in. And Trump, bless him, loves to show the men in the room how charming he can be to the womenfolk. See Trump as he introduces his daughter 'look how beautiful she is' he says to the crowd and gets a big cheer. Would he introduce Don Jr with 'look how handsome he is'? Ok both are yucky on every level.
Art collectors like the world's acknowledgement of their exquisite taste, the fact that they have the disposable income to acquire iconic works of art. Trump does it in his own way with his gold toilets and his supermodel wife. How can we be jealous of him if we can't see his fabulous acquisitions - principally his perfectly coiffured, silicone enhanced spouse. He actually made her sign a pre-nuptial agreement not to get fat I don't know what he will do with the getting old part. Among all Trumps atrocities, that odious little snippet has passed largely unnoticed. Men who really love women incidentally, make no such demands, they love every wrinkle and every squidgy bit as much as they always did. One of the nicest things about couples who grow old together is the kindness, respect and compassion they have for each other, pre nups not needed.
It is that inability to cope with adult women that drives men like Trump, Epstein and Prince Andrew towards the kind of 'Lolita' parties Epstein had on his island and plane. Epstein chose women of the younger kind, because women of the younger kind don't have the wisdom or life experience to understand they were being degraded. They had nothing to judge these aging gropers by. no past real lover of women to compare them to. Young women, and indeed young men, are very easy to manipulate, they accept, often without question, that the older person knows more than they do. Especially if they come from a dysfunctional background where moral guidelines are obscured. A confident youngster incidentally, would be more likely to tell these dirty old men to go sling their hook.
I hope on a daily basis that one or all of Trump's crimes will bring him down, but I especially hope that this one does. Even the most deranged of Trump's supporters must see that Trump has told us in plain sight, that he likes young girls, just as much as Brett Kavanagh likes beer. Anyone who thinks a Miss Universe owning, model agency owning, and in your face lech, was the fatherly figure at the Epstein parties is totally deluded. Trump has multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault against him, he stated publicly he found Epstein's penchant for younger women amusing. And this trial will probably reveal an avalanche of cringingly awful detail - especially from all those who were silenced first time round.
It's all an illusion of course, while certain people will accept the shallowness of the above argument that the contestant with the best arm candy wins. More will be repulsed. Those men who seek ever younger partners as they themselves grow older, are clearly not mature or man enough to handle a grown woman who is their equal. And I am not talking about genuine May/December romances that happen spontaneously. Many of us have our own precious, 'Summer, the first time - she was 31, I was 17', moments, to look back on and smile. Some I am sure led to long, very real, relationships, and kudos to them say I, love is hard to find and I applaud them for holding onto it. I am, kinda, discussing misogyny.
I have, over a lifetime, come to categorise men into two kinds. Those who really love women and those who do not. I currently have it around 30/70 at the moment, those men who really love women being part of the much smaller group. And any woman who has made love to a man who really loves women, will know exactly what I am talking about. Those who really love women, can be divided into another subsection. Those who love women but don't stay around long (who shouldn't be missed), and those who remain hopelessly devoted forever more, (who should be rushed to the altar post haste).
The problem with those who don't stay around long, is, put simply, so many women, so little time. They are on a mission. They are spreading sweetness and light in their own seductive ways, and it must said, if you can avoid getting emotionally involved, they are worth the risk. They will paint your toenails, join you in the bath and make you breakfast. Every woman deserves the experience, its like all your spa days in one, with a few added extras. Just don't ever think you can be the one to pin him down.
The hopelessly devoted may lack the fun extras of those who don't stick around long, but they make up for it in mileage. Their heads won't be turned by a stunning new neighbour or the waitress who brings your drinks. The only down side, they won't be drawn into humdinger arguments just for the hell of it. They reply to everything with 'yes dear', a quality that I underrated for many years. To me love was Marlon Brando in a torn vest shouting 'Stella', the rain pouring down and the pair reuniting in a passionate embrace. All so they could get back to knocking seven bells out of each other. Now my biggest turn ons are 'can I get you a cuppa'.
But I digress, this blog began (in my head) with the very ugly and very sensational case of Jeffrey Epstein's arrest. Epstein and his ilk, are among that category of odious old men who really do not like women. They are stuck in that pre-adolescent stage of male development where girls are still the enemy and the way to get attention is to pull their hair or flatter them with a patronising comment. No wonder all the women in the Whitehouse wear their party frocks to work every day, probably in the hope that Trump will tell them how pretty they. Melania is permanently in a pristine prom dress proving, as if we don't already know, that Melania does no cooking, no washing up, and absolutely never rolls her sleeves up so she can get stuck in. And Trump, bless him, loves to show the men in the room how charming he can be to the womenfolk. See Trump as he introduces his daughter 'look how beautiful she is' he says to the crowd and gets a big cheer. Would he introduce Don Jr with 'look how handsome he is'? Ok both are yucky on every level.
Art collectors like the world's acknowledgement of their exquisite taste, the fact that they have the disposable income to acquire iconic works of art. Trump does it in his own way with his gold toilets and his supermodel wife. How can we be jealous of him if we can't see his fabulous acquisitions - principally his perfectly coiffured, silicone enhanced spouse. He actually made her sign a pre-nuptial agreement not to get fat I don't know what he will do with the getting old part. Among all Trumps atrocities, that odious little snippet has passed largely unnoticed. Men who really love women incidentally, make no such demands, they love every wrinkle and every squidgy bit as much as they always did. One of the nicest things about couples who grow old together is the kindness, respect and compassion they have for each other, pre nups not needed.
It is that inability to cope with adult women that drives men like Trump, Epstein and Prince Andrew towards the kind of 'Lolita' parties Epstein had on his island and plane. Epstein chose women of the younger kind, because women of the younger kind don't have the wisdom or life experience to understand they were being degraded. They had nothing to judge these aging gropers by. no past real lover of women to compare them to. Young women, and indeed young men, are very easy to manipulate, they accept, often without question, that the older person knows more than they do. Especially if they come from a dysfunctional background where moral guidelines are obscured. A confident youngster incidentally, would be more likely to tell these dirty old men to go sling their hook.
I hope on a daily basis that one or all of Trump's crimes will bring him down, but I especially hope that this one does. Even the most deranged of Trump's supporters must see that Trump has told us in plain sight, that he likes young girls, just as much as Brett Kavanagh likes beer. Anyone who thinks a Miss Universe owning, model agency owning, and in your face lech, was the fatherly figure at the Epstein parties is totally deluded. Trump has multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault against him, he stated publicly he found Epstein's penchant for younger women amusing. And this trial will probably reveal an avalanche of cringingly awful detail - especially from all those who were silenced first time round.
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
ASK THE AUDIENCE
Britain is on the brink of a constitutional crisis, and it is going to get considerably worse if the fate of the UK is put into the hands of the totally incompetent, lying cheating. blustering Boris Johnson. If he takes the helm we are heading straight into a cliff.
There has to be a General Election. The Brexit deal as devised by Theresa May should be set out in a simplified bullet point format, so the public can see what the House of Commons are voting for or rejecting. It is about time the public knew exactly what is on the table. I would suggest Jeremy gets his pal, filmmaker Ken Loach, to make a public information film, yes, of the old fashioned variety, setting out exactly what a 'deal' with Europe looks like, what a 'no deal' looks like and how Labour would handle it.
Right now, everyone is arguing about principles, not facts. Theresa May kept us in the dark as to what Brexit will actually mean, how each of us will be affected. Vital medication for example? Are people hoarding? Should they be hoarding? I want someone to explain it all to me 'like I'm a 4 year old', and I'm guessing, I am far from the only one.
The problem with the Referendum lay in the fact that the public were woefully uninformed as to what leaving the European Union would actually mean. They were guided by Boris Johnson's false claim that the UK would save £350m per week and Farage's fake posters of hoards of immigrants heading for the UK
This time around there is no excuse for the public not to be fully informed. Theresa May lost every time because she went with her own judgement rather than the wishes of the majority. And we the public do not know what deals she made, because there must be hundreds, if not thousands, of individual ones. On Human Rights for example, will the UK continue to uphold the principles of the European Court? Are the tory echelons dusting off their horsewhips?
It takes a talented expert to explain a complex subject in simplified terms and the Labour Party has such experts and such talent. To win a snap election, all they have to do is set out the facts for the public to decide.
Monday, 10 June 2019
A NASTY LEADER FOR A NASTY PARTY
Thus far in the tory leadership race, we have a coke head who led for a lifetime ban on teachers who had ever used cocaine, a homicidal psychopath who lowered the benefits bill by killing people, an habitual liar and Bullingdon Boy (where rules of membership include burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person). Then there is crying Rory Stewart, who looks as though he is still getting his lunch money stolen every day. Don't be misled by the caring face, he voted for the Bedroom Tax and benefit cuts.
It would be difficult in any society to find 4, ok 3, more odious individuals, but among the tory echelons they have quite a selection. I haven't for example mentioned Lord Snooty, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is poised to make billions if a Brexit deal can't be reached and who we know just can't wait for the all clear to flog his servants. And of course Jeremy Hunt, raider of the NHS, who is more universally known by the alternate spelling of his surname.
Americans probably wonder, why the British consistently vote for politicians who only represent the privileged 1%. And never was that more obvious than David Cameron's front bench of old Etonians. Are working class people really voting for a government of privilege and elitism? It compares to the angry mobs storming the bastille to demand more oppression. Absurd. But it happens again and again.
Of course the odds of the tories choosing, or even finding, anyone 'likeable' to represent them is absurd - like they care. It seems to matter not that their leader is despised by the masses, they still get into power anyway. Happily we now have social media and good people who go on there everyday to expose the lies of politicians and the despicable voting records and policies of their evil leadership candidates. Michael Gove probably felt pressured today to reveal his cocaine use, because he knows it is now open season for journalists to do their jobs. His revelation may be softening the way to something bigger and more scandalous, is how a journalist may see it. I don't really care which hideous lizard leads the party, they are all intrinsically evil.
What I do care about is the Establishment's constant endeavours to blacken the name of Jeremy Corbyn. They fear him because he is honest and if he gets into power he will put the interests of the people before the bank accounts of billionaires. Austerity is a con, a hoax, perpetrated on the British people by the Conservative government, aided by the Liberals. They have literally broken Britain by sucking money out of the economy. Nothing has been saved 'financially', and many parts of the UK are now looking neglected and derelict. People are literally lining up at food banks and sleeping on the streets.
We look like an impoverish third world nation. We have suffered years of austerity, and the worst is still to come if there is a no deal Brexit. We are now dealing with results of years of tory greed and incompetence. They are stubbornly holding onto power despite the fact that they have failed miserably in making any sort of deal with Europe and they are never likely to.
I think the only way to break the deadlock would be to have a General Election. Whether they put Evil Esther or Barmy Boris in charge of Brexit negotiations, the people didn't and the people will want a say in the matter. Seriously, should the fate of the entire nation lay in the hands of either of the above odious pair?
But I am going to brighten up this rant. There is hope for the future. Social media has overtaken the Mainstream media. We are no longer brainwashed en masse. News stories are instantly proved or disproved, the misinformation tools of wannabe dictators are constantly dismantled. We can see that Jeremy Corbyn is not the monster the MSM portrays, their smear campaigns do not touch the hundreds of thousands who turn up for his rallies and who rushed to join the Labour party to keep him as Leader.
Jeremy Corbyn is a kind, decent, and above all, honest man, the kind of man who actually listens to what others are saying. In a nutshell, the ideal person to send to the Brexit negotiating table. Added to which, he understand how the economy works, something you would think most politicians would know, but it appears not. He understands for example, that if the money creamed off the net annual income for billionaires was reinvested in, say the NHS, it would provide better patient care and more nurses.
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonald, who have spent their lives studying economics, understand that if the Government invests in the country, infrastructure, healthcare, education, science, technology, we will all benefit. It is basically Roosevelt's New Deal, the way in which he rescued the USA from the Depression. investing in projects for the good of the people creates jobs. Those jobs create more jobs, as once people have disposable income they start to buy luxury goods and services. Austerity brings that mutually beneficial cycle of common sense economics to an end.
I am a child of the sixties, OK, they say if you remember the 60's you weren't there, but I was, just too young to partake in the sex, drugs and rock and roll. But I remember the spirit of the times, the stroll down Carnaby Street, screaming at the Beatles and falling in love with Davy Jones (monkey). As young as I was, I could sense Britain had come through a period of darkness and into the light, though tis true my memory may have been coloured more by Austin Powers than Harold Wilson.
In 2019 we face heading back into the darkness, a darkness created and enforced by this shambles of a tory government. They dare not call a General Election now, because all they have to offer is more of the same and then some if we leave Europe without a deal.
Jeremy Corbyn offers a real alternative. Where the tories are offering mere survival if we are lucky, Jeremy Corbyn is offering hope to millions, an opportunity to make the future brighter. The Welfare State was founded immediately after the second World War, so too the National Health Service and National Insurance. The Welfare State undertook to protect the health and well being of its' citizens especially those with financial and social needs. Radical socialist ideas at the time but ideas that put the UK at the forefront of the civilised world. If a Labour government can build a Welfare State and a National Health Service in the aftermath of a World War, imagine what a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Government could do now?
Imagine a government who took the National Health Service to the next level by building more hospitals and employing more staff? The need is clearly there. How about more schools, more teachers. Imagine a government investing in science and technology and the Arts? England was once a world leader in exploration, at one point we ruled the waves I believe. And we evolved into a civilised nation because we welcomed immigrants and learned from them. How many of the world's geniuses would now choose to make the UK their home? Closer to home how will the NHS survive if all those lovely nurses from Eastern Europe are forced to go home?
What we are faced with now is a battle between the Left and the Far Right, not only in the narrow minded, one issue Brexit party but in braindead Boris (currently watching Walking Dead). What I fear the most is that the phenomenon that led the American people to think 'let's give a raving lunatic a try', may be replicated here in the UK. After Trump, the saying 'stranger things have happened' has become meaningless.
It would be difficult in any society to find 4, ok 3, more odious individuals, but among the tory echelons they have quite a selection. I haven't for example mentioned Lord Snooty, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is poised to make billions if a Brexit deal can't be reached and who we know just can't wait for the all clear to flog his servants. And of course Jeremy Hunt, raider of the NHS, who is more universally known by the alternate spelling of his surname.
Americans probably wonder, why the British consistently vote for politicians who only represent the privileged 1%. And never was that more obvious than David Cameron's front bench of old Etonians. Are working class people really voting for a government of privilege and elitism? It compares to the angry mobs storming the bastille to demand more oppression. Absurd. But it happens again and again.
Of course the odds of the tories choosing, or even finding, anyone 'likeable' to represent them is absurd - like they care. It seems to matter not that their leader is despised by the masses, they still get into power anyway. Happily we now have social media and good people who go on there everyday to expose the lies of politicians and the despicable voting records and policies of their evil leadership candidates. Michael Gove probably felt pressured today to reveal his cocaine use, because he knows it is now open season for journalists to do their jobs. His revelation may be softening the way to something bigger and more scandalous, is how a journalist may see it. I don't really care which hideous lizard leads the party, they are all intrinsically evil.
What I do care about is the Establishment's constant endeavours to blacken the name of Jeremy Corbyn. They fear him because he is honest and if he gets into power he will put the interests of the people before the bank accounts of billionaires. Austerity is a con, a hoax, perpetrated on the British people by the Conservative government, aided by the Liberals. They have literally broken Britain by sucking money out of the economy. Nothing has been saved 'financially', and many parts of the UK are now looking neglected and derelict. People are literally lining up at food banks and sleeping on the streets.
We look like an impoverish third world nation. We have suffered years of austerity, and the worst is still to come if there is a no deal Brexit. We are now dealing with results of years of tory greed and incompetence. They are stubbornly holding onto power despite the fact that they have failed miserably in making any sort of deal with Europe and they are never likely to.
I think the only way to break the deadlock would be to have a General Election. Whether they put Evil Esther or Barmy Boris in charge of Brexit negotiations, the people didn't and the people will want a say in the matter. Seriously, should the fate of the entire nation lay in the hands of either of the above odious pair?
But I am going to brighten up this rant. There is hope for the future. Social media has overtaken the Mainstream media. We are no longer brainwashed en masse. News stories are instantly proved or disproved, the misinformation tools of wannabe dictators are constantly dismantled. We can see that Jeremy Corbyn is not the monster the MSM portrays, their smear campaigns do not touch the hundreds of thousands who turn up for his rallies and who rushed to join the Labour party to keep him as Leader.
Jeremy Corbyn is a kind, decent, and above all, honest man, the kind of man who actually listens to what others are saying. In a nutshell, the ideal person to send to the Brexit negotiating table. Added to which, he understand how the economy works, something you would think most politicians would know, but it appears not. He understands for example, that if the money creamed off the net annual income for billionaires was reinvested in, say the NHS, it would provide better patient care and more nurses.
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonald, who have spent their lives studying economics, understand that if the Government invests in the country, infrastructure, healthcare, education, science, technology, we will all benefit. It is basically Roosevelt's New Deal, the way in which he rescued the USA from the Depression. investing in projects for the good of the people creates jobs. Those jobs create more jobs, as once people have disposable income they start to buy luxury goods and services. Austerity brings that mutually beneficial cycle of common sense economics to an end.
I am a child of the sixties, OK, they say if you remember the 60's you weren't there, but I was, just too young to partake in the sex, drugs and rock and roll. But I remember the spirit of the times, the stroll down Carnaby Street, screaming at the Beatles and falling in love with Davy Jones (monkey). As young as I was, I could sense Britain had come through a period of darkness and into the light, though tis true my memory may have been coloured more by Austin Powers than Harold Wilson.
In 2019 we face heading back into the darkness, a darkness created and enforced by this shambles of a tory government. They dare not call a General Election now, because all they have to offer is more of the same and then some if we leave Europe without a deal.
Jeremy Corbyn offers a real alternative. Where the tories are offering mere survival if we are lucky, Jeremy Corbyn is offering hope to millions, an opportunity to make the future brighter. The Welfare State was founded immediately after the second World War, so too the National Health Service and National Insurance. The Welfare State undertook to protect the health and well being of its' citizens especially those with financial and social needs. Radical socialist ideas at the time but ideas that put the UK at the forefront of the civilised world. If a Labour government can build a Welfare State and a National Health Service in the aftermath of a World War, imagine what a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Government could do now?
Imagine a government who took the National Health Service to the next level by building more hospitals and employing more staff? The need is clearly there. How about more schools, more teachers. Imagine a government investing in science and technology and the Arts? England was once a world leader in exploration, at one point we ruled the waves I believe. And we evolved into a civilised nation because we welcomed immigrants and learned from them. How many of the world's geniuses would now choose to make the UK their home? Closer to home how will the NHS survive if all those lovely nurses from Eastern Europe are forced to go home?
What we are faced with now is a battle between the Left and the Far Right, not only in the narrow minded, one issue Brexit party but in braindead Boris (currently watching Walking Dead). What I fear the most is that the phenomenon that led the American people to think 'let's give a raving lunatic a try', may be replicated here in the UK. After Trump, the saying 'stranger things have happened' has become meaningless.
Friday, 31 May 2019
Marxist or Monarchist?
How can you be a Marxist and a Monarchist asks one of my favourite posters? Good question, and not one to which I have a logical answer.
I’m not sure I’m a Marxist these days or if I ever was, though I did once go along to a meeting of Militant Tendency in Deptford High Street. It was one of the best nights out I ever had, though a tad bizarre because I had come straight from the office and
was wearing a suit, my ‘look’ in those days was Sue Ellen from Dallas, tory woman eeek! Regardless, within moments I was drinking pints and singing ‘The Red Flag’ alongside my comrades in arms. To be fair I didn’t know the words to the Red Flag at that time, and was pretty clueless all round.
I don’t think I’d label myself as anything these days, there doesn’t seem to be any clique I would fit into even if I wanted to. I am far left in most things, but surprisingly conservative in others. In the interests of self preservation, enough people hate me already, I think it best to unravel my clash with mainstream beliefs bit by bit.
Royalty. Hmm. As an amateur historian I am obsessed with the lives of the monarchs through the ages, and of course every age is defined by it's monarch, Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian etc. Basically because nobody ever wrote about poor people because they are boring. Sadly it is as it is, but in its favour it has given us fascinating glimpses of times gone by and usually with beautiful costumes and in opulent surroundings. I'm being a tad flippant, apologies, but I'm still luxuriating in Versailles, I've watched series 1,2 and 3, but have gone back and am watching it again! One of the advantages of being as nutty as a fruitcake is the ability to drift away to another time and place.
I am fascinated by the monarchy, but I'm not sure I'm a monarchist. In my younger days I was captivated by the French Revolution, the spirit rather than the bloodthirsty outcome, stirred me up to fight for equality, mostly in wine bars in a loud voice. Usually in reply to 'how can someone like you support Arthur Scargill'. I have actually written dramas based on real people who lived through the reign of terror that I really must submit somewhere. One of my heroines is the bare breasted ‘Liberty’ leading the people, a painting by Eugene Delaroix that I use as my background on twitter. I have called her Adele and brought her to life.
But I digress, I have mellowed over the years. I am still far left, but brave enough now to say I am captivated by the lives of the Royals. Studying history is my guilty pleasure, it is the equivalent of being handed a tray of delicious canapes or watching Seinfeld. Is it possible to be an historian without being fascinated by the lives of the monarchy, past and present?
As I have grown older I find myself looking on our own monarchy more kindly than I ever have. I was genuinely moved for example, when the very elderly Queen turned up to visit the youngsters in hospital who had survived the bomb at the Manchester pop concert. I can’t say I have ever watched the Queen in any depth, but for me that one kind gesture from this fragile old lady changed my opinion on her entirely. Of course, as a left winger, there is much I could disagree with or even ridicule, but I don’t feel that way inclined.
The truth is I love the pomp, splendour and ceremony, the gold carriages, even the flag waving. I love that royal weddings and royal babies lift the nation’s spirits. I love that these events are recorded by history and that our descendants in hundreds of years to come will be able to see and hear the faces and voices of those who made it into the history books.
I’m looking forward to the Trump visit. Even his gold toilets cannot compare to the grandeur and history of Buckingham Palace. The only palace Trump ever owned was a casino in Atlantic City and it went bankrupt. The dim witted Donald however, will probably try to persuade the Queen to knock it down and turn all that prime real estate into condos. I’m trying to imagine how that meeting will go and I cannot get beyond farcical.
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I really hope the Queen wears a crown and her most spectacular Crown Jewels for the Royal Banquet. How will the Melania and Ivanka jewelry ranges compare? Duchess Kate, a natural beauty, simply sparkles but in a Diana tiara she will outdazzle them all. Duchess Meghan sadly will not attend, a shame really, because her presence would unsettle Trump more than her absence. And on the dazzling front, the ladies of the House of Windsor already outshine and outclass the ladies from the House of Trump.
The new young batch of Royals I adore. As a mum of two boys, my heart broke for William and Harry as they walked behind their mother's coffin. I have since then felt maternal and protective over them and I genuinely like the men they have grown up to be. I am sure their mother would have been so proud.
I agree the monarchy in the UK was getting very close to extinction, particularly after the death of Diana. The 'old guard', the last generation, Prince Charles and his siblings truly believed they owed their position to the divine right of Kings. They demanded strict protocol and deference. There is nothing likeable or endearing about Anne, Andrew and Edward. By contrast, Wills and Harry are their mother's sons. They have stepped down from their royal pedestals (not all the time I know)and have become actively involved in the causes they represent, they don't just, shake a few hands and go back to the palace. They have even shared their own mental health issues. This new generation of royals I believe are 'shock horror' becoming more like their liberal, bicycling, crown wearing cousins in Europe. Happily though, they have been able to preserve the pomp and ceremony, and I hope they continue to do so.
To those who would abolish the monarchy I would say be careful what you wish for. What state announcements (for the sake of history) will take the place of the births, marriages and deaths of Monarchs? History is probably recorded more now with events (and videos) preserving these times for future generations, than the lives of royalty. But don’t think historians will ever define an era by the politicians or personalities who have their moment in the limelight, they will begin with ‘who was the reigning monarch at the time?’.
The young royals I think will rescue the monarchy because they are using their privileged positions to help people in need. Both William and Harry are kind, decent young men who seem to understand the need for the monarchy to be updated to the 21st century. But as I said above, I hope they continue with the pomp, ceremony and traditions and I hope to see the House of Windsor in all it’s finery. If a banquet with a US president, even if it is Trump, is not reason enough to get out the Crown Jewels, I don’t know what is.
Sunday, 26 May 2019
CRISTOBELL UNCUT
I don’t feel sorry for Theresa May, not one bit. Like every other right wing leader she is only concerned with the interests of the top 1% she represents. She cried yesterday for herself, her tears said ‘why are you are all being so mean to me’, and maybe, ‘I’m going to burn in the fires of of hell for all eternity for taking the UK back to the beginning of the last century, when people actually died from poverty’. Their deaths will forever be on my conscious. To be honest part 2 of the above probably hasn’t kicked in yet, but it will. Every PM cares about their legacy, how they will be remembered. History will not be kind to TM, probably why she wept for the first time.
I’ve never been able to understand how she had the barefaced nerve to stand alongside other world leaders, knowing they were all aware of her objective to crush the British working classes into complete submission. She has no shame that world leaders see homeless people sleeping on the streets of what is supposed to be one of the most advanced nations in the world. For shame Theresa May and for shame any leader that leaves office with their nation going backwards. She leaves a legacy of failure. Failure to win the votes of the public, parliament and even her own party. She will be remembered for trying to cling onto power long after she should have gone, and she will be remembered for launching British democracy into chaos.
Anyone who follows her, as leader of the Conservative party and PM, won’t fare any better. Happily our constitution has a system of checks and balances, that will prevent an emboldened new tory PM from pushing through a Brexit deal without the approval of parliament. And seriously folks, will the charmless Boris do any better with the progressive leaders of Europe than the charmless Theresa?
But the past week was not without it’s highlights. I had no sympathy for Nigel Farage either. If anyone deserves to be milkshaked, it was him. This is is a man, who, for some reason has been given a platform by every mainstream news network to preach hate filled rhetoric to the public on an almost daily basis. Why? Who does he represent? Not half as many as we are led to believe.
He is by any reasonable person’s estimation, a slimey, snidey, POS, laughing at all those stupid enough to take him seriously. It wouldn’t surprise me one tiny bit, if he along with his mate Trump were not in the pay of Putin. He is the personification of WWII’S Lord Haw Haw, he hates England and it’s history of welcoming immigrants and new ideas and new cultures. He is the numbnut sent out to pitch ignorance and backward thinking to the masses. The acceptable face of capitalism and greed, he likes a beer and fag, he is one of us.
Talking about the acceptable face of capitalism and McDonalds milkshakes. The Queen apparently, has invited ‘the Donald’ to a State Banquet. My sympathies right now are with the Queen. Imagine being told all the stars of American Housewives and several 'Sopranos' were coming to dinner? I am sure Buckingham Palace has the finest chefs in the world (so too the Whitehouse), but just to make the Donald feel at home, perhaps she should order in Kentucky fried chicken and McDonalds burgers? For Donald sadly, that is the only way he can ensure his food has not been spat on, and its what he offers America’s finest when invited to the Whitehouse. The only problem I foresee there is the milkshakes.
Not as current as I would have liked, but I feel I have to comment on the demise of Jeremy Kyle. Tis true there are days when I have laid on the sofa eating bacon sarnies and kitkats and watching Jeremy admonish the low life scum he groomed to appear on his show. I’m not proud of that. But, like millions of others, it was always with the wish that a guest would get past the meatheads and land the odious Jeremy with a Glasgow Kiss. To say he exploited society’s most vulnerable would be an understatement. He preached a philosophy of punishment and exposure, a return to the dark ages where the feckless and the inadequate were held up for public ridicule, run out of town or forever targets of the sanctimonious. That his show was pulled for one suicide is frankly unbelievable, in this instance, it was probably one too many.
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