SOME SILLY SNAPS

THE THINGS THEY SAY:

...or maybe said

There was, of course, uncontrollable giggling and laughter at Mrs May's Downing Street arrival declaration of desire for a decent society, of wanting to build a country which was not driven by the interests of the privileged few, but the many; the people just managing to get by and working around the clock just to make ends meet.

Yeah right, we tittered, once we had calmed down. Whatever!

And who could blame us if we thought that we had heard it all before?

Because many of us remembered the words of St Francis of Assisi uttered by the sainted Margaret:  ‘Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope’ … 

Aspiration, no?

And then we recall that, in fact, where there was harmony, she brought discord; where there might have been truth, she brought ..well, error is an understatement (ask the miners and Hillsborough survivors, the steel workers and just about anyone who had a job in industry); where people had believed in stuff, she brought doubt and anxiety, and for anyone who wasn't very comfortably off or didn't have sharp elbows, well, they found that there was no longer any kind of hope.

The comparison with Mrs Thatcher was, of course, pretty obvious, because of their gender, I suppose. Britain's first and second female prime ministers were bound to be scrutinised for similarities. 

But we shouldn't forget that Cameron promised the same sort of crap and then delivered the exact opposite. (Even his Deputy Prime Minister admits this, although exactly why Clegg would boast about the fact that he sat on his hands and agreed to all this inhumanity, is quite belong my understanding. You'd think that devastating the Liberal Democrat representation in Edinburgh, Cardiff, London and Brussels would have been enough humiliation for any man. Still, when you have a book to sell...)

I can't find any reference to what John Major said when he arrived at Downing Street. Probably something about being not inconsiderable pleased to have been to see her majesty and that peas for dinner would be lovely, and would the staff ask Mrs Currie to leave now please. 

Possibly the Press treated it like an Angela Eagle Press conference.)

I couldn't be bothered to Google what what Blair said. It would have been something sickeningly insincere, or religiously fanatical, I have no doubt! 

Or maybe: Comb your bloody hair, Cheri?

NURSERY RHYME TORIES

#David Cameron, after pudding and pie,

Screwed us over and made us cry.

Now that the "girls"* are out to play,

David Cameron can creep away.

# Thanks to Mick Ryder on Twitter.
* Poetic licence (big time).

Macbeth rehearsals: Witches on stage now please!

The one on the far right... the wee specky one... yes you. 

Don't call us, we'll call you.

Random Thoughts

New Top Gear Team?

Tory contender Leadsom was ‘worst minister ever’, say civil servants who worked with her http://ebx.sh/29j1Ith 

Perfect for the job then...

Good Old Nigel. Resigns and says that he may drop into the parliament from time to time. Lovely job at £76,000 + expenses.

What a bloody choice.

The most important thing to Tessy is the ability to kill millions of people....

...Instead of this!

Standard Life (still in Scotland) having to suspend trading in its property accounts.

Oh look!

Please let me make more of a mess.

Munguin thought I should have a picture, seeing as I'm a leading contender. Fox and Crabb? Pffffff! Why bother?

THANK GOODNESS WE HAVE NICOLA

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Oh and for those of you who wonder where George is...

We're not too sure... but then, neither is he.

ON M'A DIT QUE JE NE SUIS PLUS EUROPÉEN

I was gardening till 11 o'clock last night. All the news all day had been of a big turn out and a swing from Brexit to Remain across the UK. So I watched the last North British News, had a very hot bath and went to bed.

I was a bit surprised then this morning, to find that Dodgy Dave has gone, shares have crashed, the pound has bombed and negotiations are to start on Brexit. Still, it seems the Queen will be purring, even if it's not down the phone to the Eton Boy. So I've jotted down a few random thoughts here.

England voted to exit the UK, and by a tiny amount so did Wales, 

Scotland and Northern Ireland, on the other hand, returned resounding victories for Remain and already I've seen a bunch to Tweets from people who are indicating a change in political allegiance North of the Border, as they understand now that the promises made by politicians from across the Better Together campaign, were no more than piecrusts and made to be broken. 

The results:

UK: Remain: 48.1%. Leave: 51.9%.
England: Remain: 46.8%. Leave: 53.2%
Scotland: Remain: 62%. Leave: 38%
Wales: Remain: 48.3%. Leave: 51.7%
NI: Remain: 55.7%. Leave: 44.3%

As you all know, this blog has taken an indifferent attitude to the EU referendum. The whole campaign was depressingly lie-filled on both sides. (Gordon Brown, who holds no position whatsoever in the UK and sits in none of the parliaments appears to have promised 55,000 new jobs in Scotland had the UK stayed in Europe... How? Why? Why would the status quo suddenly generate new jobs?). Nigel Farage promised a massive boost to the  NHS if we brexitted. Apparently he has already denied saying it. Still he called for a national holiday for "Independence Day" so that's something to look forward to. 

Turmoil everywhere. Tony Blair is blaming a lack of leadership from Corbyn, who is facing a confidence motion in his own party. Blair probably thinks the man should have organised an illegal war and killed a few million foreigners.

There's already a petition for a rerun, because of the closeness of the vote... Londoners are already talking about an Independence referendum and Martin McGuinness is talking about an all-Ireland referendum.

Some people of course are happy... but what are these imagrents of which we're not going to have any more? 

We live in interesting times, as the Chinese say... and I'm sure that, after the statesman like speech of our First minister, there will be much of interest for Munguin's Republic in the coming weeks... and indeed months.