Conservatives
Well it’s over then…
We have had gaffes, and both the Tories and Labour have pulled back those people from the front line for the duration. Jacob Rees-Mogg and Diane Abbott come to mind here. We have had stunts [more…]
Politics
Conservatives
Today’s Election – What it’s Really About
The looming election appears patently divisive. But it isn’t the election itself that’s doing it. The division arises from the starkness of choice confronting the nation. The very word “di-vision” almost evokes a condition of [more…]
Conservatives
Dear Local MP – At This Special Time
Just to explain, I was more incensed than usual, just very recently, at a propaganda sheet pushed through my letterbox. It was from my local MP, I’ve not named the constituency but it is easily [more…]
America
President Donald Trump Rally – Hershey, Pennsylvania
Start time midnight. Featured image: Gage Skidmore – Licence CC BY-SA 2.0
Authoritarianism
Be careful what you wish for
There is a certain segment of society that is sufficiently deficient in self-awareness, social conscience, understanding, and indeed wisdom, that they are incapable of any ethical or moral position other than that which is floated [more…]
Conservatives
The Howling at the Hustings in Hastings
As some of you already know I attended the hustings for the Hastings and Rye constituency this week. I was not originally planning to write up a post on the matter. However, given the truly [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Fourteen
Monday As usual it’s been a fairly uneventful weekend here on the Downing Street estate. I caught sight of a mouse in the garden yesterday, but it shot into the Foreign Office so I left [more…]
Conservatives
Postal Voting
Apply-to-vote-by-post-England-Scotland-and-Wales.pdf I have done one of these before but it never hurts to remind the Puffins what a travesty it all is. There can be very few, if any, Puffins who are not aware of [more…]
Philosophy
Freedom Lost?
I left UKIP in spirit over two years ago. Formally I left in January 2018. I had joined in 2015 specifically to help with the fight to save our democracy and our freedoms and to [more…]