And there’s just four players left in the mix, really. We have Corbyn, we have May, we have Trump and we have Arsene Wenger. These are the only ones left to lead us, our collective futures are in their hands. Which would be fine, but its their heads in which the problems lie.
I think the main problem with Theresa May is that she’s not very nice. I know this should be irrelevant but it never is. Theresa comes across as slightly arrogant, even for a Conservative, and that’s not great. But what she says does have a realistic honesty. She refuses to make promises that are just crowd-pleasing, vote-winning soundbytes that have and can have no substance in reality.
Jeremy Corbyn (even though he makes MY skin crawl) is popular. Massively so. He has duped an entire generation. With promises that everyone wants to hear. No university tuition fees: hooray, free school meals for all; hooray, nationalise the railways: hooray, 14 grillion quid to the NHS; hooray; 63 drillion to social care; yippee. And best of all; he’ll ensure a continued free trade agreement with Europe.
Where the fuck is all that money coming from? It simply can’t all come from the hike in corporation tax, even though he doesn’t appear to have a plan B. You can only use 15 billion quid once. That’s the rule with money. Gone is gone.
More importantly, his insistence on a tariff-free trade deal after Brexit has not been questioned. But to get such a deal, any country HAS TO embrace all the European rules. Like freedom of movement and adoption of all their laws. So we’d leave Europe and then re-join it again under exactly the same terms but as non-members. For which we’d doubtless have to pay more than we did before.
Donald Trump has removed his nation from the treaty for reduction of carbon emissions. Saved 2 billion quid. Because Europe is not his problem and there’s a massive coal industry in the States that needs all the carbon it can burn. “America First!!!!” And fuck the world.
I’m not the greenest person on the planet, its safe to say. But simple measures at reducing certain ways of life can definitely help to slow down the climatic changes that are occurring, there is no doubt. But for some reason, in a speech that would have appeared childish in a school playground, Trump was concerned that ‘the world is laughing at America’. Plonker.
Arsene Wenger has signed a new contract with Arsenal. Sadly its only 2 years. Wish it had been 10. But by then, under Corbyn, football will be nationalised, players riding bikes to training, tvs will become ‘big’ again to promote the valve industry and there’ll only be electricity for 2 hours a day anyway.
Ahhhh, the future is… something.
Happy Saturday
A xxxx
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