On Sunday night, I’m not going to bed. I can’t. It’s when the polling booths close in Russia and I’m not sleeping until I know who has won. I want to know that there’s a swing in some desolate, isolated Siberian town, I want Jon Snow with his graphs and ‘swingometers’ and a panel of talking heads discussing the implications this result has on the whole election probability. I want to be there as the winner(s) are announced in ‘the most democratic country in the world’. Because it is a completely ‘free vote’. You’re allowed to vote for any candidate whomsoever. As long as his name is Putin. The main issue is the lack of alternatives. Because in Russia, a ‘true democracy’, anyone can stand to be President. It’s a bit like here, except we need to up our game a bit.

Kier Starmer is pretty well guaranteed to win the next election, if he can get over his refusal to ‘demand a ceasefire’ in Gaza to appease the moronic masses who think one-way ceasefires are standard procedure in a war.

But that aside, the Starm-meister needs to really guarantee his place in history. Firstly he needs to murder Rishi Sunak. The man could slip in on a technicality and win, so feed him some nuclear waste with his tea. The leaders of the Scottish Nationalists and Lib Dem’s should be in prison. For… spying. Or… treason. Doesn’t really matter, just lock ‘em up. And anyone else even vaguely in with any chance of winning a seat will simply move to France, ‘in exile’, in fear for their lives. That’s how you win a fucking election. The man’s way!!!

The Church of England wants to give a billion quid in reparations for ‘their part in the slave trade’. And that’s a great idea. My deep-distant ancestors were slaves in Egypt, it says so in the Passover guidebook. So where’s my cash?

The Church’s problem was that it invested in the South Sea company, back in… back in the day. And that company ran slaves in their businesses. So the fucking Pope might as well have had a whip in his hand! Even though he’s not quite ‘England’.

When colonising kings rode into countries, they did so under their national flag and under the Cross. And they ‘converted’ indigenous populations to Christianity. They didn’t have to convert, they could hang from trees instead, but many chose Jesus as their path. And captured populations were always ‘enslaved’. Ok, the ‘slave trade’ kind of ‘industrialised’ the practice, but they certainly didn’t invent it.

And it was unquestionable the worst act of inhumanity until Hitler came along.

But it was in the past, and it was OF ITS TIME. However atrocious, and it was, that is what they did, back then. And ‘back then’ there was no ‘equality’, there was no ‘discrimination’ and ‘oppression’ was what people did to each other. I simply cannot see the point of applying contemporary standards of post-woke morality to acts which occurred hundreds of years ago at a time of a different morality.

Otherwise how long before America is given back to the ‘indigenous Americans’, India goes back to warring as one nation including Pakistan, and Norway goes back to the Vikings!!!

Happy Saturday

A xxxx