Fascism. The far right wing of the political spectrum. Then a little more to the right. Not a nice place to be. Neither is too far to the left either, it must be said, to show an impartiality that I don’t feel. Because at least to the left you get some kind of equality. In theory. In actuality you end up with something indistinguishable from far right. Just a different kind of totalitarian rule. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, was there ever any real difference?

UKIP are not far anything. They are on the ‘quite right’ scale of things because they’re very firm on immigrants and keeping Britian… if not ‘white’ exactly, then ‘British’. And getting out of Europe; too foreign for them, and they’re very nationalistic, which can be a bit scary.

And now they’ve been banned from taking part in Gay Pride. Nigel Farage was in the office polishing his Louboutins when the call came in. UKIP are not welcome at Gay Pride. They’ve been un-prided.

Which is logical in some respects. UKIP are anti-gay-marriage, they have queer-bashing events and they have groups of thugs calling people ‘poofs’ as they walk past pubs. And right wing thugs are not generally ‘gay-friendly’. One UKIP man blamed an earthquake on homosexuality. God’s revenge. They sacked that enlightened creature promptly. Not so much because he was anti-gay as because he was a screaming fucking nutter.

BUT… gay people can have any political affiliation they choose. Gay is not a political stance. And if gays are politically UKIP does that make them less gay? No. It just makes them a little like Jewish Nazis, but they are allowed.

Thus the Gay Regulatory Committee (I made that up) have decided that UKIP can’t march in Pride. That would be having their cock and eating it.

The other fence I’m currently teetering on, deciding whether to slip down the ‘humanitarian’ and ‘love of all mankind’ side, or to jump headfirst onto the ‘old fascist’ one is the ‘migrant problem at Calais’. Those thousands of the saddest and sorriest, most desperate and impoverished souls, left their families to be ripped off by people-traffickers, in search of economic improvement in Europe. By hanging onto the axle of a lorry going through the Eurotunnel. And all because of our wonderful ‘benefits’ system. Net migration is up, and that’s just the legal ones, the illegals don’t register, don’t count. And hence don’t get benefits.

Sitting here in the vast wilderness of the Cumbrian countryside you think ‘what’s a hundred thousand more people in all this?’. But they won’t come here. They all go to London. And London is: FULL.

Off to Hadrian’s Wall. Can’t be late. Its only been there for 2000 years, what’s a half an hour one way or the other?

Happy Friday

A xxxx