Deep joy and happiness were not in abundance as I ambled across the park. Slight joy was to be found in obtaining, at £2 a time, some Christmas cards to complete, I hope, this years lot. There can be no doubt when I fix them up someone will be forgotten, a sister or cousin or someone you never meet. That sort of person.
There was a kind of thrill watching Portugal play football last night, not a thrill from the football, their 6- 0 win was understandable, but watching the Portuguese crowd wrapped in heavy overcoats, hiding from the chilly rain that is sweeping across Iberia. No open necked shirts, dark glasses and t-shirts on show. Anoraks and expensive rain wear the order of the night. Somehow this surprised me.
The thrill today continued when I hoovered the floor with the broken Tesco hoover, thus annoying the man downstairs who was sleeping after a heavy night shift. I would apologise but that would mean waking him up again and he might not like that.
The Polling card arrived today. This tells me where to vote, when to vote but not who to vote for. This may be difficult this year. Our man always wins, the Tory sheep will vote for a monkey in a suit if it wore a blue rosette, but the 18,422 majority might be in some danger. However I note there are three independents one a one time councillor, and two nobody's with only the deposit to lose. This means the Labour and Lib-Dem will be fighting to come second. If only one withdrew and supported the other, we might lose this man!
The man had a 3000 increase on his majority as the UKIP folks ran off and joined the Tories, what will they do this time, the Brexit man has had to stand down! Thanks Farage. Looks like the Labour man has the best chance, the others too far behind, and the ex-councillor might take votes from the Tory boy but I doubt that will mean much. It all depends in this 'Daily Express' 'Leave' area what the people wish for. I hope the 'remainers' turn out...
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Aha! A return to muscular Christianity.
Fly, I hope our new man is like this...
Who to vote for is certainly the question for me. Our Labour MP, Owen Smith, has decided not to stand and whilst he doesn't say it , I suspect its a disagreement with Corbyn.
Tactical voting only works if many do it.
Dave, That is a difficult situation. Here Labour will be closest, but if a good man stands down you are left in limbo.
Most teachers in Scotland find November cold and cheerless. It's the one period in the year when they have to work a complete month...
Mike, ooo nasty! :)
Disgusting the way they're all squabbling and blaming each other. I don't want any of them but www.getvoting.com will give you the better of the two out of the Libdems and Labour - based not on the 2017 election results which is as remote politically now as the Magna carta it seems to me, but on a very large polling sample and algorithms working out who the disaffected Tories, if any, in your area might be more likely to vote for. When everything is so bad the only thing to do is realise that either the deluded Swinson or poor old Jezza are likely to be about ten thousand times better than Johnson! In your area I would think the best thing is to talk to everyone you can think of that looks as if they might vote Tory, and suggest that staying at home on polling day might be the best thing they can do if they don't want to ruin everyone elses Christmas. What a rotten thing to dump on us just before christmas anyway - this election must be the worst thing ever!
Jenny, Sadly round here there are few disaffected Tories. Too many sheep will vote Tory whatever the logic. There is a blind determination, encouraged by the 'Express' which will not understand argument. Even intelligent people fall for this.
By the way that website about tactical voting is getvoting.org. Still worth doing, the worst thing is to not vote at all against Johnson so however useless the others are it is worth voting for them tactically.
Jenny, Yes I looked at that. It makes no difference as it says what is obvious here. Only a failure of the sheep to turn out will prevent Cleverley getting back in. Too many sheep will tun out however, unless we have a snowstorm!
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