Boot the Brute

Well, if these idiots vote for Johnson and his cronies, they absolutely deserve what they get.

I'll fight for the environment and the NHS, the foodbanks are a monstrous travesty of justice and I'll give as I can. But if some dude has a mind, the ability to read, to think and to vote, and still goes for this most criminally mendacious government, well, maybe s/he just likes being kicked. The irony is that while I would love these free hours of study promised by Labour, in property terms a Corbyn government might skewer me. Might. But that's no great risk compared to what this Tory government could do.

But what can you do if people go for it? So tooth-grinding in stupidity, social Darwinism at its most horrible. Then there's nothing to do but batten down the hatches not least because I haven't the energy to fight for people who joyfully and knowingly harm themselves and their kids.

Scotland is the best I can do in terms of getting out of Dodge right now, and there are far worse places to be. I wasn't for Scottish Independence the first time around, precisely because it meant Scotland being outside of the EU, and I couldn't see anything good for the Scottish economy coming out of that. Thirdly - and I accept this with all my heart - I was biased. I had a fierce strong sentimental attachment to the Union of Great Britain, I am a daughter of that Union, and believed in it as a benign force for its members. Well, see me disabused of that notion. We live and learn.