A no deal Brexit seems the only choice for our politicians...I’ve just heard Jeremy Hunt proclaiming that this is going to be OK, we should just accept it and get on with it.
That got me up and moving. He seemed genuinely worried by the thought of a general,election as well he might.
The sun shines again this morning...it’s beautiful outside...and yet once again I worry. Everything I’m seeing on the TV every night and hear on the radio every morning worries me.
Both candidates seem to just be concentrating on themselves and regard the outcome of no deal as a price worth paying to avoid going to the country. I now realise why Teresa May took so long before resigning...she foresaw the total warfare about to damage our country. No wonder she wept on the doorstep of number ten.
Across the pond Mr Trump has also been in trouble...he avooided being labelled a liar by the skin of his teeth yesterday. But according to what I read on Twitter it is fully accepted by the electorate as part of the price worth paying for his leadership. He lies, get used to it..
I suspect that our own politicians do too but we are too well mannered to point it out so rudely.
The Lords have now debated a way of preventing the prerogation of Parliament if a no deal outcome looks probable.
What a world!
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The political scene in the UK is broken, but nowhere as broken as in the USA.
Mr Trump has more than demonstrated his racist, divisive credentials by his treatment of the four female democratic congresswomen of colour, three of whom were born in the USA, and the fourth who was a refugee as a young child and is a US Citizen.
By telling them to go back where they come from, he is saying to the whole people white or of colour, apart from Native Americans that they too should go back where they came from, including himself and his Russian spouse and their children, also born in the USA.
Given that the history of the USA consists of Americans, descended from those early migrants who stole the country from its native inhabitants over several centuries, surely this is only fair?
Much the same might be said for the UK, because our reality is that successive waves of migrants as invaders back over thousands of years displaced the early peoples who wandered here before the separation of the Islands from the European mainland.
In my case, my family migrated from Buckingham in about 1595 (earliest date I can find) to London, and occupied the City suburbs in Holborn for over 400 years, before dispersing post WW2 to the wide world.
Should I migrate to Buckingham? I'm not sure that I could afford to live in the Tory heavy commuter belt for the Smoke.
The point of course is that we are all transient and here for a while, as the Psalmist says, we are like grass, we flourish in the sun, but when the evening comes, they fade and are gone.
Mr Trump could do with being reminded of that.
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