It’s all gone pear shaped, hasn’t it. Starmer has managed to make himself decidedly unpopular within a month. Everything that the Tories did to make themselves unpopular Starmer is doing, but with far more vigour and energy.
Last year, after 7 October, I said that Europe is like a pressure cooker filled with petrol. You know it’s hotting up, you can smell the fumes, but things are under control — just. It would not, however, take much to spark a conflagration.
It was simply a matter of where and when it would begin, not if. France is, of course, ungovernable. Macron might have signed an electoral pact with Satan himself in order to limit the electoral success of the National Rally, but that came at a high cost. The militant left are, if anything, even more radical and destructive than the National Rally and they are not prepared to cooperate with Macron or respect the framework of the Fifth Republic. Funny thing, that. The National Rally were willing to work within the democratic framework of the Fifth Republic, demanding their pound of flesh, but respecting the presidency and the limits of their power. The militant left simply wish to destroy and burn down any limits to their perceived power.
In the past years, there’s been an almost united front. Borders no longer mean much, and some groups are more equal than others. If people challenge this, if people call for policies that are similar to those implemented by Bill Clinton, Jean Chrétien, Tony Blair or Bob Hawke, they’re smeared as far-right. That governments behind this are collapsing in popularity isn’t really surprising to say the least.
Boadicea's Chariot 
I’m just lying here by the pool, in Areu in the Pyrenees, wishing I could just stay here until the Grim Reaper comes for me.
But alas, it’s not possible, and I will need to go back to the crazy world of “civilisation’ later today.
Gaz: I rarely leave my flat near the Baltic Sea these days, unless I’m popping over to Edeka or the Vietnamese for groceries or the Buddhist garden/temple for a bit of meditation. I just read, listen to podcasts and music, and watch Netflix. I doubt I’ll do much of anything until I go to the UK next month.
A rather badly mishapen pear! But not surprising. One only has to listen to the weasly words that the left use before an election to know that they have a lot of pain in store for those who have the odd idea that they live in a democracy and are entitled to most of the profits of their labour…
… but hey! what does it matter? In the U.K. they have five long years to push the agenda that anyone who disagrees is far-far right and must be silenced.
I read a lot of comments from ordinary U.K. citizens regarding the recent riots in the U.K. Many said that they were tired of not being listened to.
It’s much the same here – there was a massive rejection of the Voice to Parliament referendum, but we note that its proposals are being implemented at State level with no reference to their electorates…
I’m almost tempted not to read the news anymore.