It has always been my intention never to swear on this blog, and never to engage in politics. I’ve also always thought it impolite to comment on heads of state and various laws that strike me as ill-advised. After all, if a nation votes for someone, and their legislature passes laws, who am I to disagree?
Despite the temptation, I am not going to let myself deviate from my personal code.
Elect who you like, and have as many guns as you like, though I would be grateful if you’d keep them at home.
However, I would like to point out that I do not carry a knife when I leave the house. Nor have I ever seen a hospital floor covered in blood or noticed myself living in a war zone.
In the UK we have fewer murders per year than the city of Chicago. We also have fewer snowploughs, though I’m not sure there’s any link between the two statistics.
We haven’t had a school shooting since 1996 when we took decisive action to stop them. In fact I think we’ve only ever had one school shooting. We have 80 massacres recorded in the UK according to Wikipedia, including two civil wars, a thirty year bombing campaign and the Romans, who make the first entry on the list in 61 AD when they slaughtered the Druids on Anglesey.
If anyone wants to do the research for America I doubt you’ll need to go back that far.
However, that’s getting a little close to criticism, so I’ll leave it there. I just wanted to emphasise that we aren’t all knife-wielding thugs wading through pools of blood as our society slides into a murderous abyss.
We’re actually quite peaceful though if we do take offence at a head of state we have been known to chop their heads off. Sic semper tyrannis, as they say.
The forthcoming State Visit is going to be interesting.
Well said, that gentleman.
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In refraining from mentioning Trump you missed the opportunity to both swear (albeit mildly) and mention a ‘politician’ in the same breath
That’s true. I probably missed a few puns too, about the trump of doom and politicians leaving a bad smell. 🙂
I may have to revisit this…
I look forward to it 🙂
Yes, hear, hear! Frankly, since the inauguration in 2017, I have felt a mixture of dread and numbness, both totally justified. So many lies and stupid things come out of his mouth that it becomes increasingly difficult to know how to react. And yet he has ardent followers, who stick with him no matter what vile thing he says or has done. So discouraging! Sorry your beautiful country has to suffer through a visit.
We’ve had the Luftwaffe and the Black Death, we’ll cope with Trump. 🙂
You aren’t alone, we also have people who would vote for a candidate like that.
Sigh. I know. Very depressing. But at least we now know how things stand with a significant part of the electorate. When Obama was in office, it was easy to think that things had progressed further than they actually had.
It always seems that your system is aimed at preventing progress. But at least you have hummingbirds. 🙂
Yes, at least we have hummingbirds. That’s something. And what’s amazing to me is how a malicious minority can exert their will on the whole country. Trump supporters are a minority, and yet they have had their way.
That seems to be the story of democracy…
Groan. Ugh. At least he isn’t in your country all the time…
For which we are very grateful, though we do have his golf course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyer%27s_remorse
I can’t possibly comment even though I totally agree with you.
It’s good to know that we are united in not commenting.
Stay away, far away and yet, why not come visit here while he’s there. Just an offer. =)
Thank you – but I think I’m going to stay so that I can go “tut” quite loudly. It’s what we do instead of protesting. 🙂
Hear! Hear!
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