Like Luke Skywalker, (another small person), Rishi Sunak listened to his advisers, his consultants, his electioneering specialists and then a voice in his head said: “FEEL THE FORCE, RISHI”, so he threw the whole motley crew out of his office, strode out into the pouring rain outside number 10 and told the world (57 drenched reporters and tv news crews) that HE, Rishi Sunak will prostrate himself before the electorate of our nation on July 7th. 6 weeks away. Plenty of time to overturn a 25 point deficit in the ratings. And why not? If he does brilliantly until then, he’ll still lose by 15 points, and if he’s made the mutha of all misjudgments, he’ll lose by 35. Does it matter?

Starmer greeted this with a typical smug but quite meaningless reply, as befits ‘the king in waiting’. Say nothing that may harm you and hope the people haven’t noticed that there’s no plan.

“FOURTEEN YEARS OF TORY RULE, RUINING THE NATION. THE NHS HAS PEOPLE WAITING SIX MONTHS FOR SURGERY!! THE RIVERS ARE FULL OF SHIT!!! AND ITS TIME FOR CHAAAAANGE!!! WE NEED TO SHOW THAT THE ECONOMY DOESN’T DEPEND ON THE WEALTHIEST FEW PEOPLE!!!!

Well, that’s interesting. Do we imagine that the day after the election NHS waiting lists will just disappear? Wow! Starmer’s brilliant!!

Allowing the water companies to pollute the rivers and waterways is awful, but nothing really to do with the government. And I’m not sure we can hold the last 14 years totally responsible. Ever since ‘man’ evolved the ability to take a shit, he’s been doing it near rivers, to avoid doing it on his own doorstep.

But announcing that you don’t need the business creators to create wealth? Ok, the ‘workers’ do the work, no question. But they need to be told what to do so that the enterprise can succeed in whatever it’s doing. And in the post-tech world, we need entrepreneurs who have the vision and can raise the money to start employing the workers.

Workers are essential. But without the ideas, and the money, they’d be out of work.

Tonight I’m going on a counter-protest. I’ve normally been a ‘protester’ so this will be really different. In, errrrr, so many ways.

The Phoenix Cinema, our local and the country’s oldest cinema, is showing the film ‘Supernova’ tonight. It’s a documentary about the Nova music festival which was attacked on October 7th. And apparently is a ‘hard watch’.

Protesters announced that they would be protesting (it’s what they do) because of this ‘Israeli government propaganda’. Which is particularly odd as most of the footage was taken by Hamas terrorists on the day and then posted, proudly, online. So how that constitutes ‘propaganda’ is beyond me, but heh, what do I know? And as with Lineker reducing the most horrendous massacre of modern times to a mere ‘thing’, people are already trying to downplay it. Make it an irrelevance.

Then they’ll try and write it out of history altogether because it doesn’t fit with their narrative. Another irony, if any of them knew what ‘genocide’ actually means.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx