Politics stops being the same old same old for once
Here I go committing blog suicide no doubt. Farewell to my loyal reader(s) this post will no doubt lead to a storm of complaint, abuse, spamming, outrage etc. I'm going to talk politics!!! Anyone with a pulse who has reasonably functioning cognitive abilities alive in the UK today can't have failed to have noticed that something happened over the weekend. A middle aged white man was elected as the leader of the Labour party. You'd have thought though that something way off the Richter scale had actually happened given the coverage of it so far. Let us state my position before I get going... I come from a Labour background, my Dad wouldn't consider voting anything else, was a union man throughout his working life and argued always that Labour was the only party you could hope to trust to help the working man. His Dad (my Grandfather) was a Labour councillor and sat on a union executive in the 1930s at the height of the movement establishin...