I have never voted for the ‘winner’ in a general election. Without going through my 45-year voting history in detail, here’s a clue as to why not: I loathed Margaret Thatcher & I never fell for Tony Blair’s ‘man of the people’ schtick. Both epitomised ’it’s all about me’, and each clung onto power way past intoxication, to the point at which they were totally ‘bonkers’ by the end. As a result, each left their party weak, divided & bitter.
Of the two, Thatcher’s narcissism was at least more ‘honest’ – she didn’t pretend to give a crap about ‘society’…because she didn’t think it existed. Blair knew better, and gave millions of people what they wanted to hear, at least in the early days, but Blair’s infatuation has always been with himself. Both were war-whores and neither was willing to take responsibility for the effect they had on millions of innocent souls. They would both deny this, and in both cases, they would be lying.
In the last election I ‘spoiled’ my ballot paper with the words: “Stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia. End all support for genocide in Yemen, terrorism in Syria, & ethnic cleansing in Palestine”…before leaving the polling station to curious glances from the tellers, who were clearly wondering what ‘advice’ I had offered to the nation in lieu of my vote.
In sum, I am not a ‘party animal’. I don’t sit well on the inside of any ‘power group’; I will not go along with consensus for the sake of an ‘easy life’, and I will not back-off just because an inconvenient truth makes a bull-shitter or his entourage feel uncomfortable. In short, I’m a pain in the arse, and I’d never join any club that would have me as a member.
But I always turn-up at a polling station, and I always make a choice, or a comment, that reflects THE MOST IMPORTANT THING to me at that time…and there is always something.
Funnily enough…this time…it’s not Brexit
I voted to leave the European Union. I did so for a number of reasons which I have explained on numerous occasions, none of which include hatred of other human beings, a desperate need to maintain the curvature of my banana, or an inability to put my trousers on without assistance from someone in Knightsbridge. In a nutshell, I voted ‘Leave’ because:
The raison d'être of the EU was, and is, the creation of a European Super-State; the centralisation of power into the hands of an increasingly remote and bureaucratic ‘elite’, serving the vested interests of banks, corporate interests and other non-elected players. It is anathema to ‘democracy’, as is a parliament unable to introduce its own legislation.
But even so…Boris Johnson’s ‘oven ready’ Brexit is not enough to get me to vote for him.
Why not? Because, over the next five years, irrespective of whether we are in or out of the EU, irrespective of who is sitting in Downing Street, a storm is coming. It’s been coming for years, its arrival is inevitable, and it cannot be ducked. The global monetary system is literally ‘tapped out’ with debt…the European Banking system is a circle of dominoes waiting to tumble, the geo-political environment is increasingly explosive…and nobody wants to talk about it, let alone do anything about it. In short, the system of crony capitalism that we typically call ‘neo-liberalism’ is breaking down.
I wrote about it here:
https://renegadeinc.com/the-quickening/
And I discussed it with Ross Ashcroft here:
https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/463099-media-war-capitalism-establishment/
So what do I want?
I want a Prime Minister who will protect the citizen and throw the banks under the bus, not the other way round
I want a PM who will go after the $trillions floating around in offshore tax havens managed from the city of London…much of which is soaked in blood and God knows what else
I want a leader who will resist any calls for us to enter Washington’s next war
I want a guy who will refuse to sell any more arms to Saudi Arabia; who refuses to support genocide in Yemen; who will not fund al-Qaeda in Syria or anywhere else; who will refuse to kowtow to the vicious apartheid thug that swaggers around in Tel-Aviv
And yes…I want a Prime Minister who will not privatise as much of the NHS as he can get his grubby little hands on, who will not come up with another version of Blair’s PFI scam, who will not weaken the NHS’ negotiating position with respect to US Pharma
Is Boris Johnson going to deliver any of that? Nope – I just ripped up half his job description.
How about Jo Swinson? Nope, she’s in way over her head and wouldn’t even make a snack for some of those boys in the city…and Mike Pompeo would wrap her round his chubby little finger.
So this is MY TRUTH:
I am NOT voting for a party, a front bench team, or even a manifesto. I am voting for a human being. I want a Prime Minister whom I believe to be a decent human being. Jeremy Corbyn is a decent human being. Boris Johnson is not.
On Thursday I shall be voting Labour.