SEASON’S GREETINGS!
A bit early, though I think ‘Christmas’
actually started around 15th August, but nevertheless, my greetings
to everyone.
News is moving along so fast that one
has a tough time keeping up with it if one is not a seasoned journalist: at
present Mrs May looks in deep do-do with even the Daily Telegraph against her:
who knows what colour the chameleon Conservative Party will turn into even in
just a week’s time? I am not sure whether the British public, taken as a whole,
wish to be governed by chameleons, though they are fascinating to watch on
natural history programmes, clinging to thin branches and swivelling their
eyes.
So just a general remark here. It
looks as if Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, and possibly the
US of A are all coming apart at the seams. Britain and France are falling apart in their
own characteristic ways: in France they burn buses; here MPs wave and throw
order paper about; in Spain they bring out the army as required. In Germany a
predictable fascism Mark II gains mass support in the streets. In Italy a bit
of all four is likely; meanwhile Ukraine is trying to start a war engulfing
NATO and the whole world so that its economy won’t collapse and its present billionaire
president will be able to cling to power. Trump faces a bit of opposition – at long
last - for supporting the deaths of tens of thousands of Yemeni children (as
does Mrs May) while declaring war on refugees from his government’s own
policies in Nicaragua and all points south, a trade war on China and total war
on the future of the planet. Perhaps the new Brazil will help him out on the
latter here.
As for the gradual disintegration of
various Western European nations, the proverbial slow-motion train-wreck, if
not so slow as all that, we might say: ‘So much for austerity!’ And more
frankly, ‘So much for fucking up Africa and the Middle East over the past
century or two.’
Happy Christmas, folks, as I said….
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