Mud

Over a year on from the #Brexit vote, & 9 months from Trump's inauguration, here we are. Did the dysfunction of either political system get any better? The systems in our countries are working through a reset. The UK exit from the EU will occur, much more slowly than was first suggested. The May "empire", that never really was, will crumble & be replaced by another package, with the same, self-interested people pulling the strings. The USA looks to date, as if it'll be largely run by a coalition of wills between the murky Democrats & Trump, until the GOP has been ignored, long enough. And so, the great image blunders on, standing as best it can, on its ever muddier feet. 

The power of #British #Brexit #legal #hypocrisy

The outgoing "President" of the UK supreme court makes a parting shot today at the government, saying that his judges, responsible for ruling against the government's approach to #Brexit, & thus branded by UK #MSM as "enemies of the people" (Daily Mail) were not defended quickly enough, thus challenging the rule of law as a bedrock of British society.

It's a bizarre feature of the UK social system that the elite, who've assumed they rule us, whilst we fund their capitalist regime, gain our acquiescence to our own financial & even physical destruction via these sorts of hypocritical deceits.

America, also under the law & therefore a country of law & legal enforcement, affords its citizens amendments to its constitution as legal rights. The first of such amendments entitles all US inhabitants the right to freedom of speech, regardless of how odious that speech might be.

Britain, technically doesn't have a constitution at all, although I'm assured by legal specialists in my office that there is a constitution "somewhere" embodied in British law, if you splice bits of it together.

What is bullshit, is the Great British middle class's insistence of the objectivity of public officials in their ability to somehow put aside their personal feelings about everything whilst considering such cases only on the basis of the "facts" of each case.

At the same time, there are calls for better diversity to be demonstrated in the appointees to this highest court in the land. Currently there's only one, white woman & the rest are all white men. One spokesman on that vile tool of British social conditioning, the #BBC #bbcnews #l @BBCr4today programme suggested this narrowness meant that such white, middle class, predominantly male judges were incapable of understanding the social backgrounds and situations of their much more diverse subjects in the cases they presided over. Clearly, there's no need for me to also explain the much higher ratio of UK black to white "criminals" that have their cases considered by the UK supreme court.

The reasons for this contradiction are beyond you and me, the "normal" people of the country, who go about our business, working our arses off in shitty jobs, to buy crap we don't need, if we're lucky not to just be trying to keep our stupid, undereducated heads above the rising tide of debt, on which our wonderful society is built.

In answer to the question by the @BBCr4today journotard, the judgetard strongly protested at the suggestion that the UK supreme court appointees should be subjected to the same kind of governmental, public scrutiny they do in the US circus. The white man judgetard simply said he was happy that legal deliberations were made by his judge colleagues without any knowledge on his part of their personal political affiliations.

Of course, many social scientists have declared, for over a century, that there's no such thing as pure objectivity in any human decision making - that, as those calling for more diversity on our courts' benches exclaim, human beings' judgements will always be coloured by subjectivity. That's the main reason research students are always told that it's never objectivity, but validity that must be fought for.

#Populism : definition by #GonzoLecture 101

Populism :
When the masses realise all the well reasoned & rehearsed arguments presented by the power-elites haven't worked in their favour, and transfer their support to anybody providing an alternative.

#Brexit : the compromise

We should scrap the result
of the #EUref, forget #Brexit
& keep rerunning the vote
until people start loving the
EU, give in, & #VoteRemain!

Divided

And now we're divided,
After we'd complied.
The whole thing's misguided,
We found out they lied.
But we know that we've tried it,
And know that it died.

The #Brexit Poets & #Brexitpoetry

To think we'd end our days
As deluded, disappointed,
#Brexit poets...
Broken pages of the country
We used to feel, we fitted into,
Until everybody, had a rethink,
Where men can kill at will,
And argue, they had no other choice, provided.
We want action, we want decisions,
Or we'll deride your lack of vision,
You need to trust the system,
Moreso, you need to trust our wisdom,
As we give it all away.

The #Brexit list

Following the awesome achievement of UK democracy in telling the tyrannical EU that their job was over as far as gouging the country out'v its rightful dues & sovereignty, I decided to make a list of other dreams I wanted to come true.

The list is :
1. Boris Johnson wouldn't become prime minister by default.
2. Michael Gove might mysteriously disappear.
3. #JeremyCorbyn would prevail
3. Chris Evans would leave #TopGear
4. Nigel Farage would realise he doesn't represent the British people.
5. Tony Blair would pay for lying to the British people about Iraq.
6. George Osborne would step down as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Neighbourliness...

I'm pretty sure
a neighbour of mine
shouted out'v his car:
"You gotta licence to be out now, have you?" at me, as he drove past, just now...

It's been a weird week, for people living in the #Brexit suburbs, yet earning one's livelihood well inside #VoteRemain territory, in fortress #London...

It's brought out the worst in people, both sides of the coin, which about as much attention, it seems most people have really engaged with any real issues... BUT

People can't be blamed for being the way they are & it's all been rather frightening for everybody, particularly people who have made their home, here, from another place. They must honestly be having a time of it, now.

I see many customers & friends from other countries feeling a mix of fear & disappointment, as their home might justv well as told them they weren't wanted. I fear more, that this might be the truth somewhere to some, & thus we've finally become, what we're not.

We need to find a happy ending

We need to find
a happy ending
To all this talk,
& sick, mind-bending.
Dragging down,
the people here,
Spreading all their
Hate & fear,
Until we all capitulate,
Until old England,
Turns out Great,
And we can get back, to tv,
to malls & sport, & luxury,
And no discomfort,
No pain left,
Of walls, pitfalls,
And Masterchef.
So we don't have to,
feel no pain,
We'll go on, and on,
As we did, again.

The people spoke

The people spoke,
With the final word,
It wasn't a joke,
They pretended they'd heard.
But there was a business
Still had to be done
The smiley face
Stood, & laughed, & posed
That'd won the race
In the face,
Of all this country's foes.
That didn't matter now
In the throngs of those
Who asked now,
What to do...
We need to give them
Something sound
Something, that'll boost the pound,
So we can tell them,
It's all fine.
It'll all mend,
Given time.
So vote for, what we tell you to.
Vote for us, we'll see you through,
In the end, what can we do?
Trust us, we're all you have.

We should support #JeremyCorbyn

There hasn't been a credible voice of the UK left since before Neil Kinnock began the whole New Labour makeover, which in turn degraded into the image-politics of middle class Tony Blair & now have left a @labour party languishing in the shame & impotence of infighting.

The present situation is dire. The classic pull between principles & electability. Corbyn principles are spot on, but he's undermined by the reimaged middle of his party, whose ambitions to remain relevant far exceed their desire to implement the vision of their founders.

In the meantime, Gove becomes the #Brexit saviour of the Tory Party by being the only one close to step into the shoes of #borisjohnson who he's just deposed with a leaked email from his wife, a few harsh words about his former faction-leader's competence to lead anything more than a railway service, & a hasty throw of his hat in the ring for the Leadership.

My guess is he's been put up to advocate Theresa May as the test subject for the "Thatcher 2.0" initiative, in which we see them try to fob one of the few qualified #VoteRemain PMs they have on us, with Gove as the #Brexit man that can push the button on article 50 without being a real leader of the 5th largest world economy, and the only nation of 28 to ever tell the EU where to shove its evil empire.