Its our democratic right to vote. That doesn’t mean we need to be doing it every sodding day. Yet the Prime Minister has now called a general election for June 8th. She waited for me to finalise our Scotland trip (we’re leaving on June 7) and then set the next available day. But I’ve got her number, I’m going to get a postal vote. And… errr… and post it to her. That’ll show her.

Its actually quite a brave thing for the PM to do. The last 3 elections of note were: Brexit, Trump and Erdogan on Sunday cheating his way to impose dictatorial measures on Turkey. Like he doesn’t have enough already. All three of those elections yielded big surprise results. A consequence of the ‘populist’ movement. Which is spreading over the world without anyone actually telling us what it really means. If you count lesser elections, like Corbyn as Labour leader twice (fucking twice!!! a nob like him), then populism seems to have a lot to answer for.

Thus Theresa May is putting all her (easter) eggs in one particular basket, gambling that with the opinion polls currently showing: Corbyn 1% (his mum); the Lib Dems scoring a big ‘who???’ and the conservatives on 97%, it wouldn’t seem that big a risk. Yet shit happens. Happened to Hilary Clinton, happened to David Cameron’s smug assumptions of our Europhilia, happening all over the world. Therefore we have to assume that ‘populism’ is the new euphemism for ‘insanity’ or ‘poor judgment’. Perhaps it just means, as is implied, a general wave of anti-establishment feeling. And, like many north London liberals, I’m all in favour of anti-establishmentism, as long as it doesn’t increase my personal tax liability or reduce the number of footmen and butlers we have.

So on June the 9th we’ll either have the same PM as we have now, but with a stronger mandate, a bigger majority in the house and a full 5 years uninterrupted to sort out Brexit. Or, we’ll have Comrade Corbyn in Number 10, take down the Union Jack overhead and replacing it with a red flag, John McDonnell next door, as head of the KGB, torturing ‘rich people’ (anyone earning over 25k a year who is NOT a member of a trade union, especially Jews), and turning us into North Korea but with better haircuts. For the time being.

We could possibly even have the Liberals in power. Yeah, I know, would take a turnaround of epic proportions, but ya never know with ‘populism’. Then we’ll go straight back into Europe and… and… well, there is nothing else.

I could see Sir Nigel Farage suddenly returning to the head of his party, for the 9th time this year, to make that push for power he so passionately desires. Sadly though, with the Serial Scouse Liar currently in charge and no policies whatsoever to talk about (bit like Labour, really) that’s unlikely.

Anyone but Corbyn.

Happy Wednesday

A xxx