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smokingbootIt's Diwali, an extraordinarily auspicious time for the UK's first Hindu PM.
Oh yes, he's a tory and extremely rich. He's said a couple of things that made me just want to groan. But whatever else may be wrong with him, the guy can do his sums. He warned that Trussonomics was the stuff of fairy tales, he just backed the hell out of that mess and left them to it, and even if he is no more representative of the average British Hindu than I am of the average Moonraker, yet perhaps there's a hope here for our marginalised minorities; I remember different times, the name-calling, the prejudice so malicious and stupid. I was new to it then, and it distressed me. How fortunate was I, that the beginnings of my understanding were formed in a place far from such desperate nonsense. It's a pleasure to see all that cruelty broken, discarded for today.
I am not sure it will stay discarded though. Sunak was voted in by the MPs, not the membership; the membership voted in Johnson, then Truss and many wanted Johnson in again. My friend-who-knows-his-stuff warned me about the doorsteps of Britain, the barely-closet racism even now. I suspect, though you never can tell, they'll say thank you very much if he stabilises the economy, and then vote him out like a shot. Because they need someone to be less than they are, and truly they are not very much at all.
And speaking of someone who is truly not very much at all, Cincinnatus mk II was thwarted! Despite these claims of him having the necessary 100 votes, he decided it was not the right time, 🤣 🤣 🤣 of course he did!
Lord, but I am glad the parliamentary party has pulled itself together. Perhaps mine is a foolish hope that he may decide Never is the Right Time, that he would rather embrace his destiny as an after-dinner speaker permanently revolving around the Carribean islands. After all it's a time of light, right?
Happy Diwali to any and all who wish it!
Oh yes, he's a tory and extremely rich. He's said a couple of things that made me just want to groan. But whatever else may be wrong with him, the guy can do his sums. He warned that Trussonomics was the stuff of fairy tales, he just backed the hell out of that mess and left them to it, and even if he is no more representative of the average British Hindu than I am of the average Moonraker, yet perhaps there's a hope here for our marginalised minorities; I remember different times, the name-calling, the prejudice so malicious and stupid. I was new to it then, and it distressed me. How fortunate was I, that the beginnings of my understanding were formed in a place far from such desperate nonsense. It's a pleasure to see all that cruelty broken, discarded for today.
I am not sure it will stay discarded though. Sunak was voted in by the MPs, not the membership; the membership voted in Johnson, then Truss and many wanted Johnson in again. My friend-who-knows-his-stuff warned me about the doorsteps of Britain, the barely-closet racism even now. I suspect, though you never can tell, they'll say thank you very much if he stabilises the economy, and then vote him out like a shot. Because they need someone to be less than they are, and truly they are not very much at all.
And speaking of someone who is truly not very much at all, Cincinnatus mk II was thwarted! Despite these claims of him having the necessary 100 votes, he decided it was not the right time, 🤣 🤣 🤣 of course he did!
Lord, but I am glad the parliamentary party has pulled itself together. Perhaps mine is a foolish hope that he may decide Never is the Right Time, that he would rather embrace his destiny as an after-dinner speaker permanently revolving around the Carribean islands. After all it's a time of light, right?
Happy Diwali to any and all who wish it!
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