When the going gets tough, the weaklings start squeaking. Isn’t that the expression? The Americans have a different version, but they would. They’ve always been about tough-talk, John Wayne, lead from the front, stand by your man, I’ll be back, shoot-em-up, the Alamo and all that macho rubbish. But we don’t really, according to everyone interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg, (a lot of people covering all regions, political affiliations, economic groups). Here we have a choice between the weak and the wet. The indecisive and the u-turner. The limp and the lacklustre. The Tosser or the Plonker. Who’d’ya fancy for the next PM?

Yet, unlike the Americans, we don’t, in theory, elect a ‘president’. We elect a party, whose values we align with, and who will govern in a manner we’d like to approve, but obviously with a leader of that party who we trust, or like, or believe will run that party in government as we hope. Or we simply vote for ‘our’ own, local candidate because we believe and trust him or her, regardless of party, government, whatever. We feel ‘they’ will represent our needs in parliament all by themselves. And good luck with that. You might as well just vote LibDem.

But in reality we get a president. We choose to do it that way. “I’m not voting for Rishi, he’s stinking rich!!”, even though ‘you’ are actually voting for Evgeniya Frobisher-Singh, she’s your candidate. So I’ll ‘vote for Starmer’. The media drives this rather un-British approach to elections, even to the point of the televised debates between leaders which goes completely against our electoral system.

So it all comes down to one man (or woman, yeah, I get that, but as neither Rishi nor Kier identify, at this moment, as a woman, I should be safe). And what do you do if they’re both seemingly way below who you’d want in the job?

The Americans have it worse. They have Trump. Who, in my last mention of his list of crimes, completely forgot those against women. Which are many and have, since Friday, have cost him a further 80 million dollars. He’s good for the economy (though not his own), and has a great stance on Israel. Even though, as my dear friend The Judge pointed out: only to appease all the Midwestern and Southern hardcore Christians who love Israel for biblical reasons. And when they’re not going to church, they can be found at gun clubs, gun shops, anti-abortion rallies, shooting ranges and KKK meetings.

Or Biden. Who those deeply religious simply refer to as ‘God help us’.

Happy choices

A xxxx