I had a terrible night's
sleep; the CPAP machine is all very well for pushing air through
constricted airways, but it can't do anything when those airways are
completely blocked. So I was up and watching "Game of
Thrones" before 5am. I then watched "Derek",
and nearly cried; it was rather sad when his dog was put to sleep.
To work; as always
listening to Radio Four through the crackling and fizzing of the bad
reception. The
opera world is up in arms because the latest star of Glyndebourne
is (apparently) too fat. She's only fifteen years old; I would
have thought that the critics would have had the common decency not
to have been so personal and nasty about the poor girl. The star of
the opera world Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was interviewed about the matter
on today's radio show. She was furious; and I agreed with her. There
are enough youngsters going anorexic for no decent reason without
pompous privileged windbags upsetting more of them.
And the Police
Federation weren't very happy either. The Home Secretary has made
a speech to them telling them that one person in three actively
distrusts the police, and that if they don't get their act together,
then Parliament will do it for them.
I've often said that the
motivations of anyone seeking to join the Police Force should be
seriously questioned. Whilst there certainly are good coppers, there
is a school of thought which says that anyone who actively wants to
be a policeman shouldn't be allowed that power. Long ago I came to
the conclusion that the best way to police the country is like they
do in the Channel Islands where there is a very small permanent
police force which is bolstered by members of the public each
effectively being "called up for National Service"
and acting as a police officer for two years at a time.
Much the same "call-up"
system might be a better way to run the country rather than the
current way we choose our politicians. After all just consider how
many of those have recently been shown to be in power only to feather
their own nests. And (perhaps more worrying) consider just how
many people went into the polling stations today with no idea at all
of for whom or what they were voting?
Something which has
become rather painfully obvious over the last few days is that the
vast majority of the electorate had absolutely no idea about the
choices for which they had to vote at today's election. Here's a
brief summary of what I could have voted for.
I had the choice of no
less than fifteen political parties:
- Six advocated blatant racism
- Three were tree-huggers
- Two were well-intentioned incompetents
- One was the popular face of wanton greed
- One was unashamed opportunism
- And two were just there for a laugh
I'll let my loyal readers
work out for themselves which was which. And I hope my loyal readers
decided for themselves which to vote for. However I'll relate a few
observations which influenced my vote.
- Before voting to send them all back on the next banana boat I had to bear in mind that none of the racist parties had any policies (at all) other than to send them all back on the next banana boat. And once they'd all been sent back on that banana boat there would have been no doctors or dentists left, nor anyone to clean the hospitals.
- Having talked with people who had voted tree-huggers into power at the last election, I have been reliably informed that tree-huggers would never be voted in again.
- Having listened to the promises of the Dribbling Democraps, I remembered that last time they also made promises which they shamelessly abandoned in favour of grasping power.
- Like them or loathe them, there were very few of these parties with any actual experience of government.
As for myself I certainly
voted. I seriously considered spoiling the ballot paper again, but
instead I went with my heart. Racism and joke parties were out. As
were wanton greed and unashamed opportunism. I seriously toyed with
the tree huggers, but it's only been four days since several people
told me of four people they honestly beleived to be dead as a direct
result of tree-hugger policies. In the end I went for the less
militant variety of well-intentioned incompetence. I hope I made the
right choice.
History has shown that it
rarely has been in the past..
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