A Prime Minister, unelected even by her own party, who will deny Parliament a vote on the most significant constitutional measure of the century, and wants to vilify the NHS, inter alia, for employing dedicated and invaluable foreigners. A Presidential candidate who thinks it acceptable to brush off his bragging about having committed sexual assaults as 'locker room talk'. A mayor of Béziers who sees fit to put up posters that would have made Hitler blush. A president of a super-ish power who seems to think it acceptable indiscriminately to bomb the shit out of the people of Aleppo to help shore up a monstrous dictator.What is our miraculous world coming to? I sometimes want to bring these jokers together on a starry night and say 'Look! We have the privilege to live on a habitable planet, and all our energies are devoted to stripping it of its assets and its life-saving atmosphere, the while spending centuries killing off those of our unique life form that we don't happen to fancy because they aren't in our pack. Is that how you discharge your responsibilities?'.
And muckle guid wid it dae me. OK, I have a terrible post-flu jab cold, and my knee hurts, but have to admit that my Weltanschauung has rarely been darker.
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