I’ve been doing some work on a medallion this afternoon, and getting absolutely nowhere. The more research I read, the more interested I became, and the slower the writing. It’s now taken me two days to write 300 words, and a hundred of them are lifted from something else I wrote on a similar subject. They aren’t exactly the same, but they only took ten minutes to adjust.
While I’m doing this, of course, I’m not able to write other things, which is annoying. Of course, I was born angry and have continued that way, so no matter what compromise I have to make, it will always be irksome.
We have elections tomorrow. (Actually, it has gone midnight, so we now have elections today). It has been billed as a fight between Reform and the Greens. These are both quite new parties and it is a surprise that they seem to be the top contenders. Traditionally the party in power does badly so Labour is in a slump and the Tories, after years spent being unable to tell what they want to do have landed at the bottom of the pile with no hope and no direction.
That leaves the Liberal Democrats, the eternal bridesmaids.
In Scotland and Wales there are other parties and elections, which I have no real knowledge of, and in Northern Ireland there are no elections this time round.
The choice for me is easy. I decided to start voting Green some years ago and I will keep voting for them. I’ve never had a great interest in politics and learned years ago that they are all pretty much the same. It’s not the party that I have the most confidence in, but the one which I dread least.
The bottom one is meant to be a mole.
Wishing you the best of luck over there. I always learn new things by stopping by your blog. It is an education.
🙂 Education? Possibly. Rag bag of trivia? Definitely! 🙂
I see it as an education. 🙂
We will continue to be badly governed as long as we have the same national press and media coverage of politics as we have at the moment. Who is up and who is down seems to be their only interest. Has there been any discussion in the coverage of the English elections of the actual business of local government, what it does, how it works, and how could it be improved? Everything that I hear, see or read seems to be either abuse or questions solely designed to trap the interviewee into saying something to their own disadvantage. There seems to be no interest or intention in making things better.
I spent nearly all my working life in local government, the last 15 years of which involved a lot of contact with elected councillors. While I met a few individuals from all the major parties who were decent, caring human beings, most of them did not fall into this category. For the latter, political victory seemed to be what mattered most, outweighing any concern for the welfare of the community. Shame on them!
Having been married to a woman who spent thirty years in council employment I confess this was the impression I got. And that was before we started the Quercus project and saw some of the departments close up.
To be fair to the press, they (mainly) report the facts and bad news always gets more attention. The answer would be for the politicians to stop fiddling expenses, selling themselves to the highest bidder or making profits onn their massive houses. As for interviews – they go on their to push their message so they know the game. I have stopped listening to them as I admit the tedious games and pushy interviewers get on my nerves. But again, that doesn’t stop them governing, their part time jobs and free concert tickets do that.
I respectfully disagree with your opinions about the generality of the press and the politicians, though you may well be right about some journalists and some politicians.
I thought you would, but you are a more subtle and far-seeing man than I am. 🙂
I do like the reduction and rewildling idea, but in the disaster movies it always seems to be the president that survives
It’s that bloody ballroom/bunker isn’t it? Make Trump, Putin and the rest sleep in a transparent bubble in the middle of a big target and we would have much less trouble.
It’s what Clarkson said about putting a spear point in the middle of the steering wheel – counter-intuitive but it would encourage better driving.
😂😂
It is hard to decide this year
It used to be some much simpler when you could see a clear difference between Conservative and Labour. Over the years they have grown so similar. And both have proved to be incapable.
Agreed. Now what? Says I
I don’t honestly know. My ideal policy would include reducing the population by 50% and rewilding. The current world situation is making this increasingly likely so I am just going to sit back and watch. 🙂
Well, hope the election goes at least somewhat to the positive side of the ledger of life, as Tootlepedal might say. As an old-fashioned Democrat, I believe government can do good. At least I live in hope.
It’s the hope that is important. Reform have been taking lessons from Trump’s men, so I’m hoping we will follow Hungary. Unfortunately, I think we may have further to sink before we rise again.
Oh, no! Keep us posted.
I will. 🙂