Gilets jaunes

Following a discussion with one of my local FB contacts, I have an idea. Why don't we start a yellow-vest movement in the UK (along the lines of France, minus the violence) to protest against a political system that is no longer fit for purpose.

Conservatives: the clue is in the first three letters of their name. Brexit is a con, a ruse to plaster over the festering sore that's existed within the Tory party for 45 years.

Labour is labouring under its own principles, under a leader to whom Constructive Ambivalence is attributed - who has not got the strength of purpose to speak out for what he really stands for. Anti-semitism, anti-EU, anti-everything, he's only interested in a campaign, not in the end result. And neither does the party have the strength to take him to task over it.

Finally, the Scottish National Party strives for independence; I think it's time Scotland was independent of the SNP. They stand for nothing else.

Thursday 29 November

David Cameron will be remembered as the Prime Minister who gambled with independence for Scotland (which did not materialise). He was another Conservative leader who was unable to stifle the internecine warfare within his party, exacerbated by the likes of Nigel Farage, leading to Brexit - a disaster in waiting. And he was the Prime Minister on whose watch the foodbanks came into existence. Isn't the idea of social security that people who are (for whatever reason) unable to (find) work sufficient means to meet the costs of living? Foodbanks are a bright-red signal that the system isn't working. The current Universal Credit fiasco (where you have to wait 5 weeks for payment after applying) makes it a helluva lot worse. If that isn't bad enough, Brexit will lead to an economic shrinkage of 2 to 9%, that's a recession bordering on depression. Over a 100 months of Tory government - what a catastrophe.