The Final Countdown
Aug. 17th, 2019 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootDinner tonight with mates, day tomorrow with other mates, packing, signing, leaving. The people we are buying from are strange unpleasant characters. The house has been empty and on the market for a long while before we saw it. We went for it, then the first offer on this house fell through, and we had to put this place back on the market. As soon as we got a solid offer on this place, we went back to the house we offered on before. They agreed, subject to the whole thing being completed by mid-August. Both our solicitors and their own made it clear that things could only move as quickly as they move, and we couldn't guarantee the date but all efforts would be made.
Things were pushed back by about a fortnight because the buyer of our house hadn't got her searches done in time. We are supposed to be completing very soon. Yesterday we got a message saying that if we didn't hurry up, they would put the house back on the market. I am this close to saying 'Fuck it, you do that. Rather than wait another week, you stick the house back on the market right now and wait 6 months maybe more for the same money, knock yourselves out.' Our solicitor was of the opinion that it was an idle threat, but why threaten at all, for what, 10 or 7 days? And I am not in love with the place yet. If we have to live in a caravan til we buy a place, because we can't rent somewhere with 4 cats, I can do that. I am half waiting for a sudden hike in the price or some new ridiculous demand, or getting there and finding they've taken all the light fittings and doorknobs. Twats.
Yes, moving is stressful. Why add to that?
Our politics becomes ever more insane. Looks like a Vote of No Confidence could be in the offing, and of course, as Leader of the Opposition, should the government collapse, constitutionally Jeremy Corbyn has the right to form a new government.
This may be the only thing guaranteed to crash the plan. He went to the other opposition party leaders to get their support, and Joe Swinson's letter back to him was respectful but clear; the maths doesn't work.
https://www.libdemvoice.org/in-full-jo-swinsons-letter-to-jeremy-corbyn-61743.html?fbclid=IwAR318z9O7ssJ1jUw-DIH8Jg-MQgbfzRhirN2QyiVnLHN77G6MjxRtbeIBd8
And the Left howls in anguish. I speak as a lefty but not an idiot; if the maths doesn't work, the maths doesn't work. The point is that the Vote Of No Confidence must be successful, the necessary end of it is to remove BJ and his merry band of demi-fascists, and if Corbyn can't garner the confidence of the House, then he is not the fit candidate for this purpose.
And the answer of some? 'If everyone votes for him then he will have the confidence of the house.' Tautology politics.
Even the moderate right regard Jezzah as Mr Venezuela. Their MPs may well risk voting for the mother or father of the house, Clarke or Harman, they're not going to cut their own throats by voting for someone they regard as not only from the wrong party but the farthest edge of the wrong party. There is another issue too; Harman and Clarke have been at the forefront of British politics for a long time. Jezzah has, as far as I understand it, never put any form of legislation forward. Does he have any gift for running a country? I accept that he is an unknown quantity in this regard, as opposed to BJ proving his inability every day. But again, Harman and Clarke do have track records. Whatever one thinks of the work they've done, they have done some work.
God, this is all so ridiculous.
Things were pushed back by about a fortnight because the buyer of our house hadn't got her searches done in time. We are supposed to be completing very soon. Yesterday we got a message saying that if we didn't hurry up, they would put the house back on the market. I am this close to saying 'Fuck it, you do that. Rather than wait another week, you stick the house back on the market right now and wait 6 months maybe more for the same money, knock yourselves out.' Our solicitor was of the opinion that it was an idle threat, but why threaten at all, for what, 10 or 7 days? And I am not in love with the place yet. If we have to live in a caravan til we buy a place, because we can't rent somewhere with 4 cats, I can do that. I am half waiting for a sudden hike in the price or some new ridiculous demand, or getting there and finding they've taken all the light fittings and doorknobs. Twats.
Yes, moving is stressful. Why add to that?
Our politics becomes ever more insane. Looks like a Vote of No Confidence could be in the offing, and of course, as Leader of the Opposition, should the government collapse, constitutionally Jeremy Corbyn has the right to form a new government.
This may be the only thing guaranteed to crash the plan. He went to the other opposition party leaders to get their support, and Joe Swinson's letter back to him was respectful but clear; the maths doesn't work.
https://www.libdemvoice.org/in-full-jo-swinsons-letter-to-jeremy-corbyn-61743.html?fbclid=IwAR318z9O7ssJ1jUw-DIH8Jg-MQgbfzRhirN2QyiVnLHN77G6MjxRtbeIBd8
And the Left howls in anguish. I speak as a lefty but not an idiot; if the maths doesn't work, the maths doesn't work. The point is that the Vote Of No Confidence must be successful, the necessary end of it is to remove BJ and his merry band of demi-fascists, and if Corbyn can't garner the confidence of the House, then he is not the fit candidate for this purpose.
And the answer of some? 'If everyone votes for him then he will have the confidence of the house.' Tautology politics.
Even the moderate right regard Jezzah as Mr Venezuela. Their MPs may well risk voting for the mother or father of the house, Clarke or Harman, they're not going to cut their own throats by voting for someone they regard as not only from the wrong party but the farthest edge of the wrong party. There is another issue too; Harman and Clarke have been at the forefront of British politics for a long time. Jezzah has, as far as I understand it, never put any form of legislation forward. Does he have any gift for running a country? I accept that he is an unknown quantity in this regard, as opposed to BJ proving his inability every day. But again, Harman and Clarke do have track records. Whatever one thinks of the work they've done, they have done some work.
God, this is all so ridiculous.
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