Sub Rosa

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Back to the leadership contest.  Crabbe is out, as so is Fox - leaving the two ladies (May and Leadsom) and....Gove.  Boris is backing Leadsom (I bet he is!!) and Crabbe is supporting May.   No sign of Cameron around - where IS Wally???  Wafting around, basically - an unveiling here, a f***ing-up-of-an-economy there * .  The Dutch think we have collapsed across the spectrum.  Their PM Mark Rutte is saying that the UK has  now "collapsed - politically, economically, monetarily and constitutionally" yesterday.  I DO think we are in crisis, which will take a long time to recover - BUT....this is not being helped that the joint political parties are STILL running round like headless chickens, blaming the voting public for not voting 'Remain' or not voting 'Remain' enough.

Forget divorcing from the EU - the UK politcal parties have run their trust of the public into the ground and then cite the UK public for 'irreconcilable differences.'  I have seen more stability and truth from Mark Carney (present Bank of England Govenor) in recent days, that I have from the People. Who. Are. Meant. To. Represent. Us.  The People In Power - Where the f**k ARE you? All we can see is the ugly site of you lot slitting each other's throats for a place at the high table, slicing your fellow candidates like wafer thin ham.

*I beg your pardon - Call Me Dick Dave is in da House of Commons, telling his fellow members of the House that we 'should reflect' on Chilcot's findings and rethink how they tackle war in the future.  How about 'let's not ever start/join in on another one?'

I awoke this morning to the sound of that unprincipled s**t Osbourne blythely saying that "It was not our responsibility" to have a plan for leaving the EU.  Really? REALLY? Your party were the damned idiots who set these wheels in motion.  You can't abstain responsibility - UNLESS YOU WANT TO HAND YOUR JOB OVER TO SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY DO IT. The day didn't get much better, as online news media kept tearing any notion of moving forwards to shreds.  Now Corbyn is now said to 'be defiant' after no confidence vote.  Have got a feeling he will stay until he is carted out.

Back to the Conservatives and it appears there are two strong contenders - Theresa and (God help us) Boris, with a couple of others making suitable rumblings in the background (namely Liam Fox and Jeremy Hunt, who have both had bumpy and difficult careers that have seen them resign from various posts).  Gove and Osbourne are seemingly out of the running - a blessed relief for some.  Gove is clearly not up to the job.  As for Osbourne - please see the opening paragraph to this journal entry.  Anyhoo - more on information on the leadership contest, click this BBC LINK

There is an interesting article about the Brexit aftermath from Owen Jones in The Guardian. He feels that we should not 'succumb to the brexit disaster' and that it is 'time to campaign to save our future'.

I think he has a point.

Well, that's an understatement really.  The news has rocked the EU to its roots.  Facebook has absolutely exploded as so has other social media platforms.  Real vitriolic stuff from both sides, family and friends divided, posts sickening enough for me to pull the plug on it for a long time.  The Pound has dived, the Market's tanked and many a hue and cry over splilt milk. Scotland are considering their own second referendum only twenty months after the last one and top Northern Ireland politicians are reconsidering their boundry lines - so much the fear for this troublesome poll.  Not totally unsurprisingly, David Cameron resigned at 8:20 this morning - looking like the most reviled and kicked PM since Maggie T. was ousted from No. 10 in 1990.

Shellshocked, I DO wonder now just what is going to happen to a) the rest of the EU, as others are rumoured to leave (Dutch for one); b) the UK, especially as it is not as United as it once was. 72% of people voted - this is a massive turn out, which proves to me one thing - people do not have the confidence that ministers from any faction are listening to them.  The higher brow newspapers are insinuating that only the thick and the old have voted to leave - which I think is a condescending and pretty derogatory tone.  Some of the medium brow and tabloids are victorious, but (they ask) at what cost?

I was a conchy abstainer. One of the 25,000 who deliberately marked their card to show objection to the crass comments and lies.  I never seriously considered that we WOULD wake up as a Brexit nation - I really thought that Cameron et al had steamrollered most people to vote remain. Why didn't I vote in the conventional way?  Because I didn't like how these arguments were becoming polarized.  'Brexit' had a point, but could not promise what the outcome could be - plus there were ugly bouts of xenophobia abound.  The 'Remain' Campaign did not convince enough influential people, nay put many off with their steamrollering approach to appeal to the public, wheeling every VIP except the Dalai Lama to remain.  I hasten to add that 'Brexit' too were very heavy-handed with their delivery, seemingly promising everything, but I suspect delivering us a pup.