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Boy, not been here in a loooooong time...

Here's what I've been listening to in last twenty minutes or so:

AC Acoustics - Crush https://youtu.be/fjWyq4Cblns
Urusei Yatsura - Hello Tiger https://youtu.be/nMVClobK63M
The Delgados - Pull The Wires From The Walls https://youtu.be/PsKfaSLulKc
Teenage Fanclub - Take The Long Way Around https://youtu.be/E-t1bjP2N7g
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Come On https://youtu.be/N3G_PsGmXys

Astonishing still to see how many lefties seem to think this is all fantastic. Their fantasy is the UK getting a kicking for a year or two and then CORBYN TO THE RESCUE. By then, it'll be too late to rescue anything. At best, Labour would end up like the post-crash leftie govt in Iceland that was booted out after one turn.

I'm a "Lefty" and the word "fantastic" is not one that comes to mind when I think of this country's parlous state. It's more along the lines of: "OHMYFUCKINGGODWHATHAVETHESEFUCKINGPRICKSDONEWEAREFUCKINGDOOMEDIHOPETHATTHESERIGHTWINGXENOPHOBICPRICKSALLBURNINHELL!!!!!!!"

Even after all of these years I still contend that Titan should have been an Aimee Nixon Lowlife story with the twist reversed: feature Dredd as the cliffhanger appearance and have the preamble of how he and the others arrived on Titan be shown through hallucinations as he is being drugged and tortured by the inmates.

Welcome. Glad tidings to you. 

The Tory leadership race is rather depressing - it's a contest between two Thatcherbots. There can be no doubt as to why Darth May and Andrea Loathsome are both contenders: the Tories want to return to their Thatcherite fantasy land of deregulation, privatisation and managed decline of the provinces. The majority of us lived through the Eighties, it was shit. I don't want to go back there again. Whoever wins MUST do the decent thing and call a General Election. That way we can have the opportunity to kick these bastards out for fucking up the country. 

Had a great few hours there today with my son Aaron ( deadpool)  had to leave early regrettably.

Bugger. I was standing in front of you in the queue to get in. You both had fantastic costumes.

Our current predicament reminds me of a Godspeed You! Black Emperor song called The Dead Flag Blues -
"The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death"

OK, now I'm just depressing myself.

Probably right 8 Ball, that still leaves us with a problem:  how on earth have we came to the pass, whereby the Political class are so removed that they will consider the people's safety both physical and economic; the integrity of the union between the nations and the status of the country internationally, as simple collateral in an internecine party feud?  Z 

Like most people, I have no idea, Z. All I do know is that right now our country has been hijacked by opportunists, egotists and xenophobes and I don't know how we get it back.

Seen politicians lose and resign, but to win the referendum and not step up to deal with the consequences? Shocking. Did Boris Johnson not want to leave the EU after all?

That's the problem. The Remain side thought they couldn't lose (and therefore didn't plan for it) and the Leave side thought they wouldn't win (and therefore didn't plan for it). It's now clear that Johnson and Gove thought that they could scrape a narrow loss (51% Remain/49% Leave) that they could use to undermine and depose Cameron and scare the EU into greater reforms on the free movement of people. The only people who genuinely wanted to leave were that shower of shits UKIP.

The lamps are going out all over the UK, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.

Beware populist demagogues. Sorry, but we are most definitely fucked. But at least we got a chance to stick two fingers up to Johnny Foreigner, eh? Pathetic. Fucking pathetic. My heart is breaking.

A word of warning for folks doing the whole weekend, there will be a rail strike:

"The RMT said the planned strikes will be held between 00:01 and 23:59 on:

◾Sunday 3 July"

For more info check the Scotrail website to see if and how you might be effected if you are taking the train.

https://www.scotrail.co.uk

Welcome to the board. A finer bunch of chaps and chapesses you'll struggle to find. 

Welcome! Welcome! I think that you may just like it here.

It's predictably terrible. I'm a massive Stone Roses fan and I have to say that I do not like this. At all.