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A lighter morning
Jun. 5th, 2024 06:53 amA harsh wind blew through one of my poppy patches yesterday, shredding and tearing the petals of my beloved prima donnas, such a waste of the newly bloomed! Close up it's a sorry sight. I went out and told them not to worry, though the wind was so fierce and shook them so hard their seeds would go far and wide, feeding birds and little beasties in the grass, and their amazing purple antlers still hold lots of pollen for bees passing. I'm sure they paid attention. A little peptalk goes a long way with discouraged beauty.
The latest illness is sloughing off me, made a little lighter by some news to please my heart.
I couldn't make the extraordinary meeting last night, but R did. Away from the discussions about the town, Doc Holiday's been keeping the news of his cancer quiet but apparently the worst possibilities may very well be avoided. Things are looking more optimistic. Without knowing him well I wish him very well, this shrewd and perceptive ally, with his wry snipes at Foghorn Leghorn who in fairness gives as good as he gets. The community council without these two snarking at each other would be a strange unfamiliar thing. I'm not sure I would recognise it.
The day is better.
Meanwhile, we learn that Nigel Farage is standing for election. He got a milkshake thrown over him in Clacton ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pp7yg0y3po) I do wonder about people who do this stuff. Yes, he is a revolting individual, but the lady who did it would not want the same done to her whatever her beliefs might be. And of course, he made a joke of it later (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1192122405153476) which will just cement his Good Ole Nige image for his fanbase and further. She has enhanced, not diminished, his standing. Silly woman.
Nigel's reappearance divides the Right Wing vote, unless the Tories collapse into following him which really will signal the death of the Conservative party as we know it. It always had its nutters and racists, but that was not all it was. Its credentials as the Party of Business suffered with Brexit, then its self-claimed moniker as the Natural Party of Government went down the pan with Johnson, and finally its reputation as the Party of Fiscal Responsibility was destroyed by Liz Truss. It has to rethink, regroup, sort out what it means if it now stands for anything other than trying to send brown people beyond the sea. Of course Farage exemplifies that drive and far worse. But even without him, the underlying problem remains the purge of adequacy that occurred in Johnson's time. Those who didn't agree with Brexit were chased out and took a lot of ability and talent with them. The remainder were almost by definition not the cream of the crop. So what now? The Cons are weak and Farage knows it. He's here to eat them.
All of this is good for the Labour party, if its far left can get over their never-ending heartbreak at Jeremy Corbyn's failure to reach Number 10. Keir Starmer's a centrally inclined pragmatist who doesn't have the charisma of jam-making Magic Grandpa but might be what the country needs albeit in a grey way. If Starmer becomes PM and Trump makes it back to the White House, the disconnect will be hilarious. Two less similar temperaments never saw daylight on this planet.
The latest illness is sloughing off me, made a little lighter by some news to please my heart.
I couldn't make the extraordinary meeting last night, but R did. Away from the discussions about the town, Doc Holiday's been keeping the news of his cancer quiet but apparently the worst possibilities may very well be avoided. Things are looking more optimistic. Without knowing him well I wish him very well, this shrewd and perceptive ally, with his wry snipes at Foghorn Leghorn who in fairness gives as good as he gets. The community council without these two snarking at each other would be a strange unfamiliar thing. I'm not sure I would recognise it.
The day is better.
Meanwhile, we learn that Nigel Farage is standing for election. He got a milkshake thrown over him in Clacton ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pp7yg0y3po) I do wonder about people who do this stuff. Yes, he is a revolting individual, but the lady who did it would not want the same done to her whatever her beliefs might be. And of course, he made a joke of it later (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1192122405153476) which will just cement his Good Ole Nige image for his fanbase and further. She has enhanced, not diminished, his standing. Silly woman.
Nigel's reappearance divides the Right Wing vote, unless the Tories collapse into following him which really will signal the death of the Conservative party as we know it. It always had its nutters and racists, but that was not all it was. Its credentials as the Party of Business suffered with Brexit, then its self-claimed moniker as the Natural Party of Government went down the pan with Johnson, and finally its reputation as the Party of Fiscal Responsibility was destroyed by Liz Truss. It has to rethink, regroup, sort out what it means if it now stands for anything other than trying to send brown people beyond the sea. Of course Farage exemplifies that drive and far worse. But even without him, the underlying problem remains the purge of adequacy that occurred in Johnson's time. Those who didn't agree with Brexit were chased out and took a lot of ability and talent with them. The remainder were almost by definition not the cream of the crop. So what now? The Cons are weak and Farage knows it. He's here to eat them.
All of this is good for the Labour party, if its far left can get over their never-ending heartbreak at Jeremy Corbyn's failure to reach Number 10. Keir Starmer's a centrally inclined pragmatist who doesn't have the charisma of jam-making Magic Grandpa but might be what the country needs albeit in a grey way. If Starmer becomes PM and Trump makes it back to the White House, the disconnect will be hilarious. Two less similar temperaments never saw daylight on this planet.
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