Half the priests in the Vatican are gay. Big fucking surprise there. In the new ‘revelations’ from a book about the homosexual life within the most outwardly homophobic ‘state’ in the world. Other than maybe Saudi, Iran, Qatar. The other 50% of the Vaticanees fondle little girls. Ok, maybe I made that up, maybe I didn’t.

But in the book’s exposee of Catholic Central was one detail that is purely exquisite. That there is a group of prelates who regularly go to a particularly down-market section of Rome to find rent boys. And they refuse to wear condoms. I presume this is on ‘religious grounds’, certainly not for health reasons, and that is just so beautifully, superbly, sordidly, outrageously hypocritical and wonderfully ridiculous that it should be enshrined as the number 1 sin in the ‘problems with the Catholic Church’ list. Currently 4 volumes. It’s like a rabbi asking for no butter on his bacon sandwich because its not kosher to mix ‘milk’ with ‘meat’.

And now we’re just 40-odd days away from Brexit and… and… and what? Not much happening on that front. Never mind, loads of time. But more exciting is the prospect of a ‘breakaway group’ of Labourites. Those few moderates who haven’t been deselected or forced by Corbyn and/or Momentum to swear blind allegiance to their leader in the face of any normal form of democratic process, have finally got pissed off. With his horrendous disinterest over Europe and his quite ridiculous failures about sorting out the anti-semitism problems rife among his supporters.

This will be a good thing. Because a few ‘moderates’ (ie right of Marx, left of Blair) will leave the Labour whip and… who knows? Presumably form a new party. New NEW Labour. The Almost Labour Party. The Anti-Corbyn Party. And even if its only 4 or 5 that’s fine. Because more will follow as they realise that their current leader is a toxic and dangerous person. And it will give the rest of the ‘normal’ party a nice, easy escape route back to the sanity of a more centrist political agenda.

Trump’s no centrist. He’s building a wall. And so disgusted is he with the ‘illegal immigrants’ and the ‘drug gangs’ (like there’s no white, Anglo Americans involved in the drug trade) and the whole Mexico thing that he’s going to declare the building of the wall a ‘National Emergency’ so he can fund it without going to Congress. But Congress will fight him in court to prevent it. He’s worried that the lack of wall is preventing ‘America becoming Great again’. Because once Jose has picked a basket of oranges for 10 bucks an hour, the entire fabric of American society is threatened.

Oh well, happy Saturday

A xxxx