Busted Flush

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Fun and games looming on the twelfth of October, it seems; when the new EU entry checks at Dover and Folkestone will kick in for freight and coach passengers. Car drivers get a brief respite until November the first. Oh, joy: getting into our own continent to holiday, conduct business or visit family and friends is just about to get harder and frankly much more tedious. Thank you Brexiteers! Job well done, at least if you subscribe to the xenophobic tosh touted by the Little Englanders currently causing so much fuss about 'foreigners'. Reform, Conservatives, [The Metropolitan Police], Trump, et al: they all seem to want to drag not just this sorry little archipelago, but the rest of the world, into the fucking nine circles of hell: and to boot, the first named storm of the season is already banging on the windows here; a pattern becoming ominously familiar as global climate change takes its toll on the planet. What is the political Right's response to it? Reverse all global emissions reduction programs. Scrap the lot, drill and extract more fossil fuels, despite all the evidence before them to suggest that this might not exactly be the best way forward for our species, or for any other, come to that. The power for change lies in the ballot box - at least in this country - and abuse of this right and privilege by using it to empower those flagrantly opposed to the common good strikes me as nihilistic and just plain daft, but there you go: we're all in it together, although on the face of it, we still don't seem yet to have collectively realised that simple fact...

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