THE BIG QUESTION
Q : What do all these people have in common?
A top chef selecting beef for his steak menu
A porn director casting his male lead
Me thinking about the Westminster parliament I'd like to see on 13 December
A : We all want them well hung.
In around four and half decades of taking an interest in politics there has never been so poor a choice to be the UK prime minister. Our democracy is such that I have often found myself voting for the least worst option, but this feels more like selecting which leg to have amputated. Thank goodness I made the move back to Scotland, where we have much better alternatives.
Clearly Corbyn is the lesser of the two plagues on offer, but he's looked less and less inspiring, more and more unstable, as the last few weeks have unfolded. The accusations of racism and financial incompetence in his party may have some grounds in truth, albeit to nothing like the extent being broadcast in multi coloured lights by the right wing media, but they are nothing compared to Islamophobia, xenophobia and deficit-doubling death-dealing austerity of their opponents.
So what's the best outcome we (well, I at least) can hope for on Friday morning? A tory majority would be disastrous,a Labour one seemingly impossible. So the best possible outcome for Scotland, and maybe for the rest of the UK too, is a hung parliament, with fifty plus SNP MPs holding the balance of power. (I'm tempted to say forty nine just so the world is spared this horrific sight which would do old Nessie no good at all.) England gets to avoid the brexshit that will destroy it's economy, and we get another chance to get ourselves out of the broken UK. And this time we need to grab it.
Roll on Friday morning....
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