This is, eventually, about the Labour Party.
Younger readers might struggle to imagine the world we fifty somethings grew up in. There were three TV channels, BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. ITV wasn't called ITV1, any more than Earth is currently called Earth1. The idea of multiple ITVs would have seemed as far fetched as a Dyson sphere.
Tardigrade
I find the days fly by
Wednesday 28 June 2017
Tuesday 20 December 2016
Brexit part two: majorities and responsibilities
This is cobbled together from two different comments dropped into a Guardian article (Theresa May rejects £50bn EU 'divorce settlement' figure)
Thursday 1 December 2016
Brexit part one: a dog's breakfast
Brexit was never going to be a good thing, but it's instructive to consider how much worse it is than it needed to be. Yes it's a dog's breakfast, but it might at least have been a breakfast fit for a dog. Instead we've had an indigestible mess slopped all over the worktop by cat lovers with little knowledge of canine nutrition and no real goal beyond resolving a private domestic dispute.
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Trumpwittery
I think we should make Trump a swear word.
It would work for generic swearing such as "for Trump's sake, you Trumped that right up", but I think he'd be particularly good for portmanteau swear words. Trumpstain. Trumpnugget. ClusterTrump. You get the idea.
Saturday 29 October 2016
Driving the bus off a cliff
There’s a problem with the bus we’re all on, which is that
some of the people on it want to drive it over a cliff.
The old driver didn’t think this was a brilliant idea but he
agreed to let the passengers have a vote on it because he
didn’t think they’d actually vote to drive a bus off a cliff, and he wanted to
shut the mouthier ones up for a bit so he could get on with selling off the
best seats to the highest bidder, which was very much his favourite thing to do.
Thursday 13 October 2016
Trade asymmetry
I wrote this yesterday in a comment on a Guardian article. I've tidied it up a bit to improve the flow, but it's as it was otherwise. Rob Telford told me I should put some of my comments and Facebook posts in a blog, so all of this is entirely his fault. Thanks, Rob, by the way. Some may be horrified, but I feel invigorated and purged and that's the main thing.
It’s about trade asymmetry. The relaxed tone of it is because yesterday we were only facing economic collapse, whereas today we are facing economic collapse without Marmite.
The trade asymmetry problem goes like this.
It’s about trade asymmetry. The relaxed tone of it is because yesterday we were only facing economic collapse, whereas today we are facing economic collapse without Marmite.
The trade asymmetry problem goes like this.
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Another Brexit comment
I put this comment in an article, this time in the Independent. I've lost the link, but the
context, as so often, is frothing Brexit trolls and their anonymous identities.
We've got a ripe old bunch in here today, haven't we?
We've got a ripe old bunch in here today, haven't we?
Friday 9 September 2016
The rules is the rules
This is from
the Rule Book.
“The
shortlisting and selection of candidates shall consist of a vote, by
eliminating ballot, of all eligible individual members of the electoral
ward/division on the basis of one member one vote.”
There’s
always a slightly abstract element to Green Party procedural debates. No matter how
much emotion we invest in a technical wrangle, the Party will continue to
be roughly what it is now.
The above
comes from the Labour Party Rule Book, though, which means it changes
everything.
Monday 1 August 2016
Letter to the Settlement Board
I
wrote this as a letter to the Board at the Settlement where I work, and I
thought I might as well put it here. I wouldn't describe it as cheerful.
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