JULY 4TH MAY BE INDEPENDENCE DAY.....FOR THE U.K.

By Bob Walsh

 

I like the John Oliver show on the magic talking box.  He is way too liberal for my taste, but he does have an interesting take on things and looks hard at stuff many people would never hear about otherwise.

There is going to be an election in the United Kingdom on the 4th of July.  It is extremely likely that the Conservative (Tory) party, which has been in charge for 14 years, will have their ass handed to them.  They have had a total of five PMs in the last 14 years.  One of them lasted only two months.  The current one, Rishi Sunak, was the subject of an interesting media poll recently.  When the general public was asked to describe him with one word the most common one was RICH.  Also WANKER and CUNT were mentioned pretty often.  He announced the upcoming election, on very short notice, at a lecturn in the street in front of 10 Downing Street, in the pouring rain, without an umbrella or even a hat.  Their PM is literally not smart enough to come in out of the rain.

Over the last 14 years the UK has been on a major austerity program, which is having serious negative impact on people, especially those at the low or medium end of the economic spectrum.  Large numbers of people are leaving the UK to go to Lithuania for medical care because it can take months and months and months to get routine non-emergency medical care.  Seriously disabled people have been cut way back on the amount of housing and home health care assistance they get.  It is pretty grim for a lot of people.

In any event it will be interesting to see what shakes out.  Polls are saying that Labor may very well take 450 seats in the 650 seat House of Commons.  I don't have any real answers for them, but what they are doing now is definitely not working really well for them.