December meme - Day 25 and 26
December 25 → a photo of you and your family
I love this picture of us wit my Mum and Dad on our wedding day in 1994
December 26 → talk about politics or current events this year
I don't really know what I can say about politics. Here in the UK it's a trainwreck. Our government is a bunch of millionaire sociopaths who don't have the faintest notion of how 'real' people live. This is the clownshow that brought us Brexit and has brought the country to its knees by allowing rampant profiteering to run riot because they only care about their rich donors. Our PM did a photo op at a food distribution centre for the homeless just before Christmas and actually asked a guy who came there for a meal if 'he worked in business?' Words fail me.
My own representative (or MP 'Member of Parliament') as we call them here, is a rubber-faced prat called Michael Gove who has been at several different ministries during his political life and failed at all of them. He's never lived in our constituency, and never seemingly lifted a finger to help us. But people still vote for him... *sigh*
We seem to be getting through prime ministers at an alarming rate at the moment. Liz Truss was famously prime minister for 44 days over the Autumn. Normally I'm the first person to support a woman who has made it to the top in a man's world, but seriously, the poor woman was the ultimate pole turtle. In other words she was a turtle balanced on top of a tall pole: she didn't get up there by herself, some other arsehole put her up there, she didn't know what to do while she was there, and she was elevated beyond her ability to function. Although it pains me to say it about any tory, I almost felt sorry for the woman.
I still maintain that the number ten mouser, Larry the Cat, would make a better PM than any of them. I'd vote for him!
I really hope that at our next general election we can get a change of government, it's sorely overdue. But that's two years away. Until then... I just don't watch the news becauase it's too depressing.
I love this picture of us wit my Mum and Dad on our wedding day in 1994
December 26 → talk about politics or current events this year
I don't really know what I can say about politics. Here in the UK it's a trainwreck. Our government is a bunch of millionaire sociopaths who don't have the faintest notion of how 'real' people live. This is the clownshow that brought us Brexit and has brought the country to its knees by allowing rampant profiteering to run riot because they only care about their rich donors. Our PM did a photo op at a food distribution centre for the homeless just before Christmas and actually asked a guy who came there for a meal if 'he worked in business?' Words fail me.
My own representative (or MP 'Member of Parliament') as we call them here, is a rubber-faced prat called Michael Gove who has been at several different ministries during his political life and failed at all of them. He's never lived in our constituency, and never seemingly lifted a finger to help us. But people still vote for him... *sigh*
We seem to be getting through prime ministers at an alarming rate at the moment. Liz Truss was famously prime minister for 44 days over the Autumn. Normally I'm the first person to support a woman who has made it to the top in a man's world, but seriously, the poor woman was the ultimate pole turtle. In other words she was a turtle balanced on top of a tall pole: she didn't get up there by herself, some other arsehole put her up there, she didn't know what to do while she was there, and she was elevated beyond her ability to function. Although it pains me to say it about any tory, I almost felt sorry for the woman.
I still maintain that the number ten mouser, Larry the Cat, would make a better PM than any of them. I'd vote for him!
I really hope that at our next general election we can get a change of government, it's sorely overdue. But that's two years away. Until then... I just don't watch the news becauase it's too depressing.