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I haven't commented on the Brexit fiasco for a few days, suffice to say that discussing the news brings extra followers (I'm in the top 400 now on LJ), but not good for the senses. All of the referendum fluster has calmed down a bit, essentially covered over temporarily by the resurfacing of the Chilcot Enquiry. I suppose it's that time of the year. Flowers are in bloom, the sun is out, we are half way through Wimbledon and it's about time that the general (nay international) public were whitewashed yet again re the details of the Chilcot Enquiry. The ususal warmongers have been wheeled out again, with predictable levels of denial.

Basically, the bullet points are underneath the cut as so is the Beeb Link

( Chilcott Bullet Points (Pardon the Pun) )

Ironic that they rubbished Charles Kennedy at the time, interesting that Tim Farron (leader of the LibDems <---- hey, where have YOU been during the Brexit campaign?) has lept on that nugget. This is swinging back into Tony Blair's camp - that basically he was no 'tag along,' that he was complicit in seeing through Jerge Dubya's hellish crusade. No doubt the supposed suicide of Dr David Kelly will come back into focus too. I will refrain from comment now and see what this enquiry will bring. However, I doubt the likes of Tony Blair will ever be found guilty or brought to justice if he IS found to be in the wrong.

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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?'

Newsthump article under cut for swearing. Can so identify right now - minus the beardy smart-arsedness. Just as you think you can kick back from the keyboard, another political oaf plays a trump card. Something is obvious though - Boris does NOT want the responsibility of activating Article 50. Coward.

( Newsthump - Satirists Can’t F*****g Type Quick Enough )

You must admit that the British government are becoming past masters at making absolute fools of themselves - over and above their normal quota. For the record, leaving us in the cacky just isn't cricket, Boris. Really isn't.

:-/

I can't watch BBC News now without peeking through my fingers, probably in a bid attempt to stop myself flinching. Please, not Gove!!

Well, Clown Prince Boris has ruled out his own bid for No.10, bowing to his Brexit running partner, Gove. Funny how both men, who have previously thought themselves 'not up to the job' have suddenly found themselves suddenly (and miraculously) 'the only man for the job'. He seems largely pushed forward by his wife, whose email considering Boris' suitability' was leaked in yesterday's press. Gove has been said to have performed a 'Double Brutus' - first on Cameron, then on Johnson. Which is more or less how I described Boris' behaviour on Cameron and Farage, in my LJ statement '"Et Tu, Boris?"' several says back. Politics is a such a cut throat old game, isn't it?

Not a fan of Gove; he is a Rupert Murdoch brown-noser, who in his previous role as Secretary for Education, made lash up after lash up of the curriculum. His policies have seen good schools ruined by his 'academy thinktank' and has seen highly commended teachers quit their jobs. He is famously co-authored the book with current Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt (also up for leadship contest) co authored a book Direct Democracy: An Agenda for a New Model Party (2005), which is hellbent on private healthcare - both Hunt and Gove complicit in the coup de grace in ending the free NHS.

Theresa May is seen as a shining light in the Ministry of Bad Ideas. A choice of Tory futures...God help Us All.

Well, it's been relatively quiet on the post Brexit front, with people priming themselves for position. In the blue corner, Boris, Theresa May, Stephen Crabbe, Liam Fox and Jeremy Hunt are jostling each other - meanwhile, in the red corner, Corbyn is hanging on with his teeth, closely harranged for other party members up for his job. Former shadow minister and new possible contender Angela Eagle is keen as mustard, with possibilities of Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper in the wings. Not sure re Diane Abbott, but I am sure we will be informed as soon as the rest of the cabinet quit.

Least said about Farage and his embarressing rant at yesterday's EU meeting, the better.

Far happier news this afternoon - New Zealand have offered the UK its top trade negotiators to help seal new trades across the globe. An excellent start, something hopeful to cling onto in these dark times.

Saw this on FB - was amused, under cut for swearing and length of post. Wish I had had the guts to post it myself.

( Leadership Rally )

Cartoon courtesy of Gerald Scarfe

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.

Sadly, even down to popular demand, there is absolutely no chance of a second referendum on the table. Truthfully, I didn't think it would ever truly be taken seriously - because it would be seen as a mockery to the democratic process. We have to just sup it up and move on. Dave has stopped sulking and emerged from his pillow fort, vowing to steer Britain through the next few months. He allegedly believes that we have undertaken the biggest democratic vote in history and that we should be proud of our democratic proccess.

Steps have been taken to stabilise British economy. Zero tolerance on abuse on immigrants and ethnic minorities (in reaction of course to the racist graffiti in the Polish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith this weekend.

BBC News Highlights.

New conservative Prime Minister by September 2nd, as recommended by The 1922 Committee

Downing Street has announced that there is a new unit established in cabinet - employing the brightest and best of the civil service to start intensive work on the British departure from the European Union.

Mervyn King (former Governer of the Bank of England) reckons there is no reason to be particularly worried.

Shares have fallen, but not as badly as expected.

EU - No talks with the UK until Article 50 is invoked, which will not happen at this stage.

No initial change in travel/goods movements or services.

Apparently, the the UK has capital/liquid reserves. There is 250 billion in the kitty to fund the banks and markets, more blah, blah about economic stress testing and seemingly we can withstand a scenario far worse than the one we are already undertaking.

There are questions abound re the Conseravtive party's future. Ditto Labour's as no less than 32 of Jeremy Corbyn's cabinet have resigned - deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson has already declared that Corbyn has no authority amongst MP and faces a leadership challenge. 57 Labour candidates have asked for his resignation.

Osborne is eager to keep the stability of the economy via an address to the markets early this morning - much good that this has done him. He is also to meet the G8 leaders and get on with his job. There has been no sign of Boris anywhere - I presumed he was practicing his rhetoric and trying to play down the idea that he has just stuffed the British economy. Alas, he was seen playing cricket with Earl Spencer over the weekend, Good job, Boris - out for a duck (!)

And the sun sets on another difficult day, yet there is a sense that SOME form of structure is being put into place. However, there are many people who feel that we are on the brink of absolute collapse more catastrophic than it first appears. What else can we do, but to wait and see how this pans out :-/

Well, it has been just over 24 hours since the massive Brexit shock and the country is still reeling. Even if this is meant to be a weekend, it is worrying that there is a clear ABSENCE of leadership at the moment. Dave's licking his wounds, knowing that he has gone down in history as the Worst Prime Minister in a Hundred Years. Boris is uncharacteristically playing everything in minor key, with a very confusing message in regards to our position in Europe. Boris - can we still truly be called European after all this? You might be right but this is not the time and place to argue semantics. Plus, Farage is furious because he's suddenly found out that he's persona non grata and therefore not invited to the Cross Party Committee that is supposedly leading Britain out of the EU. Quite extrodinary, given the man's place within the campaign. IMO, they are using him as the figurehead of mass xenophobia, an 'everyman's' slightly more acceptable version of Nick Griffin. Theoretically, if Farage has been the signifier of crass racism within the campaign, then it looks like the Brexit camp are forcing him* to fall on his very jaded sword.

"Et tu, Boris?" cried both Cameron and Farage (but for very different reasons).

Regardless of my own political position (currently fence-sitting, albeit with splinters in my bum), there is one thing for sure. Sources from various accountancy factions have maintained that most of the key business corporations (although in turmoil) HAD planned for this and contingency measures WERE in place for in/out/shake it all about - best and worst case scenarios. The banks had planned for this, too - expecting problems from the stock market/sterling/shares and planned accordingly. The only people who seem to be a bit in freefall, are the general public and to some extent, the Government <---- which disturbs me. If we were really so neck and neck in this race, why are the political factions so reticent and confused at the moment? Why isn't there any PROPER spokesmen (Cameron, I am looking at YOU - you haven't gone JUST yet) trying to calm the troubled waters?

Where are the grown ups in this situation?

* note - I have never have been nor will ever be a supporter of Nigel Farage, or his politics.

Well, well - take a look at this beauty. What you see before you are the occuaptions of the people in the 'Panama Papers' leak. Yesterday saw actress Emma Watson lambasted by some of the snottiest newspapers, for purchasing property as a beneficiary of a company in the Virgin Islands.

I don't really care what EW has been up to - take a look at the REAL culprits. This is all seemingly legitimate, but the stats are making these offshore multi millionaires look even more shifty than normal. Ironic too, that in the last couple of days David Cameron (whose party is currently being investigated for election fraud) is part of the new quote 'Anti-corruption Summit'

Obviously these two things are not related - but Call Me Dave must not be oblivious to the hypocracy that is going on within his own leadership, the government and British politics at large.

For

bluegerl - they should have had the words 'an absolute' somewhere.

So, Nick Clegg now wants to do a U-turn on the 'Bedroom Tax.' I can here the "beep, beep" sound of another polician backing up.

Anyone would think there is a General Election next year...wait a minute, I have the weirdest sense of de ja vue...

So Cameron has edited out old Etonians and penciled in women and northerners. Trying to tick every box, eh Dave? Not sure if the electorate are THAT stupid ~~like voting for Nick Farage.~~

Anyone would think there is a General Election next year...

I have just looked at the early results of the European Elections. If the early indications are anything to go by, it's goodbye progress, welcome back misogyny and racism, you never really left. Not for the first time, I have come to the conclusion that the electorate is an ass.

( BBC News - UKIP Surge in Euro Elections )

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We had to stage a debate this morning - All literature should have a political basis. Interesting. I had to be on the opposing team and trying to prove that there shouldn't be politics in all literature - however, most of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels have some kind of feudal system and any trashy novel has some form of sexual politics, so more difficult than we thought. Define politics - Define literature. Politics: are they just morals and values channeled into governing society? It would make the written word an even more terrifying tool - akin to fascism and communism under Hitler or Stalin.

Thankfully, we were prepared with enough ammo - how it would stunt education, devalue scientific discoveries and cause divisions where there would not have been any. If you enforced politics into literature in past, present and future text - at the very most there would be concerns of brainwashing/paranoia; at the very least, some people would lose interest and not read at all. Could you imagine the drive to find more and more 'neutral' books and just how boring that would be? A horrible Orwellian world of sanctioned books etc.

Edit ::: I forgot to mention that I used the children's story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' as part of the argument. Try stuffing politics into the life cycle of a butterfly, you will come unstuck.

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Chilcot/Leadership Contest Mashup
Newsthump - Satirists Can’t F*****g Type Quick Enough
Not Gove II
God, Not Gove!!
All Quiet on the Brexit Front
Leadership Rally
Corbyn - No Confidence
Stand Together
Careers Corroded - Cameron and Corbyn in the House of Commons
"Et Tu, Boris?"
The Panama Papers (Alleged)
Trickle Down Economics
Watching the Panama Papers With Interest, Mr C
Anthropology Summed Up
Bedroom Tax U-turn
Male, Pale and Stale
Early Euro Election Results
Politics & Literature Debate

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Entries tagged with politics

Chilcot/Leadership Contest Mashup

Newsthump - Satirists Can’t F*****g Type Quick Enough

Not Gove II

God, Not Gove!!

All Quiet on the Brexit Front

Leadership Rally

Corbyn - No Confidence

Stand Together

Careers Corroded - Cameron and Corbyn in the House of Commons

"Et Tu, Boris?"

The Panama Papers (Alleged)

Trickle Down Economics

Watching the Panama Papers With Interest, Mr C

Anthropology Summed Up

Bedroom Tax U-turn

Male, Pale and Stale

Early Euro Election Results

Politics & Literature Debate