So I cheered up.....
(and sure enough things got worse
There’s an old joke about a dude complaining and his friend says “cheer up” things could be worse. So the complainer cheers up and sure enough things get worse!
People you know I’m talking about Blighty!
Starmer is out as PM and Burnham is in. And Burnham wood is coming, not to Dunsinane, but to “Manchesterism”.
Peep this:
“a state that owns, invests and provides to make life affordable. A politics that takes back control of the foundations of a decent life: clean water, cheap energy, warm homes, reliable transport, built and run by institutions that answer to the public.”
and this:
“For millions of households, the basic non-negotiable expenses of life – rent, energy bills, water charges, transport fares, the cost of care – now consume so large a share of their income that insecurity has become a permanent condition,”
England has a lot of problems, but this is not going to end well.
Instead of “medicare for all” it’s “NHS for everything”!
By the way, my idea of successful Manchesterism would be having The Fall playing at top volume in all public spaces. What would yours be?
I would prefer to have Oasis playing at top volume, both the studio albums and live versions of the songs.
A coworker who’d served in Vietnam told me about one time he and his squad were on night patrol. They were slogging through swamps, sucking mud, the works. It was pouring rain in sheets and they could barely see anything.
One of the squad starts complaining about how awful it is, and one of the others says, “It could be worse!” The first guy snaps back, “…How…?”
Moments later they got into a firefight.