Election Year or Fear!

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I made no cheap dig at your Facebook acquaintances (they aren’t friends really are they?). I just questioned their objectivity. They chose to go on a Tommy Robinson rally. Hardly likely to be critical. Personally I’d trust the BBC more than Facebook.

Sadiq Khan? I know less than you, GP, about London but hasn’t he been democratically elected three times?

Wokeness? I guess it means political correctness to you. To me it means awareness of the need for social justice and that’s no generational thing. There’s about 15 months out of 141 years between us I think.

I’d quite like my country back too.
I’d like to claim it back from flag wavers who’ve turned MY flag from something I once found reassuring into an emblem of frustrated and spiteful nationalism.
I’d like to reclaim the rivers and coasts of my childhood from what greed, profit and privatisation has turned them into.
I’d like to be able support the England cricket team rather than a car or insurance company.
I’d like to see rugby players covered only in grass and mud rather than the advertising ‘paint’ that now adorns the actual pitches.
I’d like football crowds not to ritualistically boo the opponent’s national anthem.
I’d like to see a return to the tolerance and fairness that my parents always showed and that our country was once famed for.
I’d like to see us get rid of bent coppers, selfish politicians and crooked accountants who know how to use the system.
I’d like a properly funded state education system and NHS rather than one system for the wealthy and another for the also rans.
I’d like builders and developers to recognise their responsibility to provide a properly supported infrastructure from the millions they are making.
I’d like a fairer tax system too, where the biggest burden falls squarely on those with the widest ‘shoulders’ and when they start shouting ‘well we’ll leave then’, I’d like to happily wave them off.

Anyone disagree so far? For what it’s worth, I don’t want thousands of illegal immigrants either, but I don’t see how this is all their fault and I do think ‘we want our country back’ is a chant born out of frustrated, ignorant racism in search of a scapegoat manufactured by the likes of Robinson, Farage and, of course, Musk who are all doing very nicely out of it.