Don’t get exited. I mean ‘party’ in the political sense. Which is as much fun as… as… as something that’s really no fun at all. Even less fun than ‘international breaks’ in football. Although that’s possibly symptomatic of the same syndrome. Which is the divisions and tribal instinct inherent in humans. English humans anyway. Can’t speak for the rest of humanity; they don’t live round ‘ere.

But I find international football boring and uninteresting and an intrusion on my basic human right to panic about my OWN football team every weekend. Because I love them. And I don’t love England because it has horrible players from other teams and they’re not nice. We are a nation divided by our common love of different football teams. And I respect that. Whilst not respecting most of the other teams. And virtually none of their fans.

Similarly politics. It’s divisive. Has to be or we’d be all voting for the same person/party. Or not voting for anyone because that’s what happens when there’s no allowable divisions. Like in Russia. North Korea.

So we just have to vote for who we like. Unless…

Unless some tosser invented the concept of ‘Brexit’. Which neatly forms subdivisions of those divisions. Like me. Who the f*** should I vote for? I’m a centrist type person who would ideologically vote for the Lib Dems. But never have because they’ve always either managed to offend me or been felt to be a ‘wasted vote’. Now, as a Remainer, more than ever I should vote for them as they’ve promised to… annul Brexit? Remove Brexit? Stop Brexit?? You pick your verb, they’re gonna do it. Yet I further feel that not doing Brexit would be undemocratic and I therefore can’t vote for the LibDems because I’d be party to effectively cheating the electorate. Even if I consider 52% of that electorate to be ill-informed and moronic racists. Without being in any way judgmental.

I could even be persuaded to vote Labour. Not NOW, obviously, but nice, cuddly, middle-of-the-road Blairish type Labour. Middle class Labour.

But my voting aspirations are compromised. By the presence of Corbyn. The overriding factor. The main problem. The doomsday scenario. And that takes massive precedence over absolutely everything. Even without his anti-semitism, his politics is the politics of national economic destruction. So therefore I have to first and foremost consider taking my own concept of ‘going off the edge of a cliff’, which is a Corbyn government, ‘off the table’. And thus find myself forced to vote for a right wing (hate that), Brexit loving (hate that), comedian (for PM??) in an increasingly right-wing government because any other vote may compromise the chances of getting Corbyn gone.

It’s that simple.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx