It seems that we shall have yet another "Coronation"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/16/may-averts-tory-mutiny-by-agreeing-to-set-her-exit-date-after-brexit-bill-vote

May agrees to set her exit date

Well, she has finally decided to set a date for her departure from Number 10. Or has she? The Prime Minister who has more political lives than a cat, has agreed to set a timetable for her departure as prime minister in the first week of June. Personally, I will believe it when she climbs into the back of the limo and disappears out of Downing Street and into oblivion.

In the meantime however, the runners and riders are circling behind the starting line waiting for the man to wave the flag or raise the tape or whatever they do to start the hustings. In Great Britain, we do not elect a Prime Minister. We just vote for the party of our choice and get a Prime Minister by default who just happens to be the leader of the party gaining the most seats at the election. However, the leader of a party will have an effect on the way in which the electorate cast their votes and the personality or political position of he or she, will influence the final make up of the Commons. That is where a problem arises when the leader of a party decides to stand down when holding the office of PM and the next leader of that party automatically becomes our prime Minister. The so called "Coronation" has now taken place with Brown, May herself and will also occur with whoever the Conservative party members choose as their next leader. It is wrong and completely unacceptable that an electorate of around 45 million in this country can have a Prime Minister inflicted upon them according to the whims and vagaries of perhaps only 100, 000 people who happen to be the members of a political party that just happens to be forming a government at that time.The only way which is fair and equitable would be to have a general election should a party change its leader during the time that he or she is Prime Minister. Thus is the case when (if) Prime Minister May actually stands down. The country did not choose her as PM nor will they have any say should Johnson, or Hunt, or Mcvey, or Gove, or Raab or any of the other numerous hopefuls who have so far thrown their hats into the ring, become the next PM with yet another"coronation". Such is the attraction of the post with all its privileges and perks that the next person to be elected is hardly likely to call a general election. The electorate will just have to grin and bear it no matter which person the Conservatives choose albeit that General Election is what the circumstances and the nation may demand.

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe...

Workers face ban on striking .

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/15/trade-unions-conservative-offensive-decades-strikes-labour?CMP=share_btn_fb Tories launch biggest crackdown on trade unions for 30 years The Labour party must oppose the continuing assault on ordinary people in this country. Organisation and protests against the excesses of this Conservative government is essential. Should Harriet Harman suggest even partial support for Conservative policies, she is clearly in the wrong party.

Leave the clocks alone!

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/did-you-remember-to-put-clocks-forward-224737/ Sanity returns!!! The clocks have gone forward by one hour and perhaps now I can get some proper sleep, and return to normal in numerous other areas which have been disrupted since 25th October 2020. That pesky little person who steals an hour from my sleep and disrupts my time/body clock for the next 6 months, should be confined to a secure location for ever. Never again should I and thousands like me be disrupted every year and for no apparent reason by an outdated and tenuous notion of "daylight saving". In fact we should probably put another hour at the start of the Summer and then stay on Double British Summer Time (DBST). for the duration. Message for pesky little person "LEAVE THE BLOODY CLOCKS ALONE!"

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