Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 December 2019

General Election 2019

In 24 hours from now the country will have a good idea on which party has the biggest chance of forming the next Government. I hope with all my heart that it is not the Conservative Party.

I used to vote Conservative. I was proud to be a pro-business, pro-EU, pro-aspiration voter. Not any more. Since 2016 the Conservatives have swung so far to the right that there is no way I can vote for them tomorrow. And the lies they have told, with this deluded belief that they need to out-Brexit the Brexit Party.

Boris Johnson has no integrity. Neither do many in his Cabinet, I hope that the results tomorrow will be a blood bath for them. The polls are tight but it is still possible that there will be a hung parliament. That is what we need right now - some moderate politics that can guide this country away from the abyss. Boris Johnson is not the man to represent the country.

I am a bit scared for tomorrow, but I have a small feeling that the polls are closing in on Boris Johnson. Tomorrow I think that people will vote for anything but the Tories. Whether tactical voting is successful or not will be part of that story.

I am so fed up with politics right now. I'm fed up with Brexit, But that doesn't mean that I am prepared to waive through a Withdrawal Agreement that has not had proper scrutiny. This is what Johnson is hoping to do. Before the election was called Parliament refused to accept the shortened timescale for debating the Withdrawal Bill. So Johnson tried to call for the election. I am still a bit annoyed that an election was called at all, but I believe in democracy and I know that in the end this will be work itself out.

We have come a long way since that terrible year, 2016, when people who didn't have any opinion at all about Brexit suddenly decided to pin all their domestic woes on the EU. Fed by the lies and deceit of Brexiteers it was always going to be inevitable that manipulated electorate would vote for something that had been barely explained in full. Now that the full ramifications of leaving the EU are in the open, there is only disinformation (and there has been a lot of it) by the Tory spin doctor in chief, Mr Cummings, that can once again engineer a result to suit them. I just hope that truth and integrity prevails tomorrow. It is the last chance we have to stop Brexit.

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Suffering in the heat

It's been a tough few days. I've been suffering in the heat. My ankles have swollen up, I've become breathless, woozy, my stomach is bloated. I suffered in the cold last winter and now I find that I suffer in air conditioning, becoming jittery and anxious. It's not a nice feeling.


On Friday we travel to Athens to see Alex K and Alex G. Four days in Athens; the remainder of the trip is undecided. Raoul has been too tired to focus on anything else. He is also suffering badly from his tiredness right now.


I really hope that the holiday lifts our spirits. I'm slightly nervous for the heat, but it will be great to embrace Europe. Visiting Trump's America is not very appealing right now.


Here the weather has tempered slightly, although my flat is still showing as 27 C. Ate chicken soup tonight, partially as comfort food, partially after my filling. Whilst I struggled slightly to walk to Kennington Road for my dental appointment, the evening stroll did me good I think.


I still need to decide on career. The Optimisation role is no longer in my minds eye and I am drifting more to be the enterprise architect. I don't really have the energy to be career minded right now.


Looking forward to spending a few days near Bergerac with Sam. Turns out we can stay at her father's house there after all.


Boris is being an idiot again, humiliating the country. The EU might be told they can whistle for their money but Michel Bernier is right to say there is no whistling, only the clock ticking until March 2018. What a complete and utter mess.