General Election Thoughts

I won't lie, the kicking that the Tories are going to get — most of it self-inflicted — makes me smile.

However, I'd smile even more if the likely Labour government were aiming higher than Slightly Less Awful.

I don't know if I can ever trust the Liberal Democrats again at the national level. At local government level, they've been... well, competent in making the best of a bad situation. (But seemingly can't stop fighting Labour instead of the actual party responsible for this mess. Hint: they run the county council and central government.)

In an ideal world I'd vote Green. Sadly, the First Past The Post electoral system means this is emphatically not an ideal world.

What really turns my stomach, when I briefly check the news, is that the real winner will be Nigel Farage and his latest political vehicle — not in seats, but in moving the policies of the other parties ever further rightward.

July 4th won't be the end of the battle — it'll only be the start. The real battle remains the  excising of the cancerous tumour that has infected UK politics for decades, of which Brexit is but the most visible manifestation. Doing that, though, may require a revolution.