Election 2019 - Super Saturday

The last week of the campaign and no less than four election leaflets were thrust through my letter box this morning. The only one received in the preceding week was from Labour (No idea about Brexit); today we had the LibDems (stop Brexit), UKIP (even more Brexit), the Labour party candidate for Ruislip-Northwood (easy mistake to make as the constituency boundary is just a few doors up the road) and a very strange one from one William Tobin,  a UK citizen living in France who is unable to vote here but is able to stand (almost certainly stop Brexit).

Everyone is going to put more money into the NHS and schools and fight for local issues (apart from the incumbent whose inability to keep promises is now legendary in these parts) and there is little else to choose between them, although the UKIP candidate includes "sack liar politicians" as one of his themes. I wonder if this is anything at all to do with dear Nigel, the man who leads a party but who is not actually bothering to stand in case it interferes with his career as a loony right wing pundit in the USA.

In other news, a leading diplomat at our American embassy has resigned because she is no longer able to peddle the government line about how wonderful Brexit will be and the incumbent in our constituency continues to parrot the phrase "Get Brexit done" as an alternative to answering any questions.

As Woody Allen put it in his piece "My speech to the graduates"

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.