Unfortunately our so called General Election turned out to be anything but 'General' and Labour (and others) were unable to steer the debate onto the normal wider election themes, and so it remained a one issue event motored by the most partisan media coverage ever - where fake news became the order of the day and such things as possible election bribery, or suppression of the publication of funding reports became 'one offs' as far as the media was concerned. So now the north of England in particular has voted for it's Brexit at all costs, forgetting that the flip side is that they have given a majority for five years to the party responsible for austerity. They have voted for bankers and speculators against nurses, the badly paid, the homeless and those reliant on food banks - and they will say 'democracy has been done'. And what democracy - once again a government will be lording it with a majority although 57% of voters voted against them - and, in this case hate them. So, the big loser is democracy itself - and the turkeys have, well and truly, voted for Christmas. I feel ashamed for my country this morning - other countries have statesmen representing them on the World stage - we have a lying, cheating clown. But life goes on - and the poor, who were convinced that the EU were the cause of their poverty, will realize that they are still poor in 5 years time (possibly even poorer) will then turn against the charlatans who deluded them.
But Christmas is coming !
