Why is my brother in a fish tank? Lila possibly would have asked. And its a good question. I think they put them in those as a quick trip down evolutionary lane, to show the young (can’t really get too much younger) Kev, where it all began for humanity. When fishes first walked… errrr… flapped… anyway, when they came onto the land so that just around a billion years later, humans would walk the planet. Or, in Kev’s case, lie the planet for a while, til he finds his feet. And I’m sure both Lila and Kev, being exceptionally bright and gifted, took this onboard totally.

But the world Kevin has entered is one in turmoil. In the Euro elections, (we have not a care what happened in Germany, France or the fucking Netherlands), Nigel Farage won. For a ‘political party’ that only came about approximately 2 weeks ago, claiming a landslide in an election is a pretty good, if predictable, start. But its not really a ‘political party’ in the usual sense. It’s just a ‘political statement’ about one, solitary, horrible issue. That of Brexit. That’s its sole purpose. And I kind of admire the honesty which I always felt UKIP lacked. UKIP pretended to be a ‘real party’ even though they only initially had ten members and nine of them were borrowed from the National Front. UKIP made noises about ‘the NHS’ and ‘policing’ and ‘schools’ but really with no conviction. They were about LEAVING EUROPE. And pretty much nothing else. And once they vanished up their own white robes with pointed hoods, Brexit has taken over. One message and one message only GET THE F*** OUT OF EUROPE AND NOW!!

Initially you might think that the nation has gone ‘heavily Brexit’, just by looking at the outstanding victory for the Brexit party and the massive losses for the ‘big 2’. I mean not one conservative MEP from London, not one. But I think the national divide is still 50/50 but the remainers didn’t bother to vote. And because Brexiteers always make more noise. On the radio shows the Europhiles are quietly spoken and rational whereas the leave supporters are more ‘DEY FUCKIN LIED TO US; WE VOTED AAAARRRRTT AND WE WAN AAAARRRRTT!!!’ kind’a thing. I make no judgments nor stereotypes. Ish.

Kev will also come into a footballing world riven by aggro. On the day after the head of the Spanish league accused the Gulf states of ruining football with their excessive spending, in particular Manchester City, which is effectively owned by Abu Dhabi, and Paris St German, which is owned by the State of Qatar, that well known seat of a great love for football and a greater love for money and corruption. And terrorism. Better stop now. On the very next day Mike Ashley signs over Newcastle United to a billionaire from Dubai. As the ink dried offers went out for Messi, Hazard, Harry Kane and seventeen others.

Happy day 3, Kev

A xxxx