I am beginning to draw parallels between the behaviour of Trump and Boris Johnson. Some of you will say I am a bit slow in coming to this conclusion but politics doesn't move as fast in the UK as it does in the US. The philosophy of the two leaders is to ignore everything, deny everything, flout the law and, especially in Trump's case, lie about everything. Dominic Cummings clearly broke the rules of lockdown and Johnson did nothing thus proving to the British public that the laws don't apply to him and his cronies. So how staggeringly stupid is he to defend the Housing Minister who has quite rightly been accused of cronyism, and in my book, corruption. I am not a supporter of any party but I do want to know that our country is being run by honest people.
Having said all that, it doesn't matter what I think because as far as the voting system is concerned, I have been disenfranchised. Under the fifteen year rule (you lose your vote once you have lived outside the country for 15 years) I can no longer vote in the UK. Unlike thousands of others, I don't actually have a problem with that. However it is a problem because the country I do live in doesn't let me have a vote either and since Brexit even local elections are forbidden territory. Therefore I live in a democracy but I have no rights to express my wishes anywhere. And that is the problem.
Having rejected the invasion of ants via my front door, I discover that they are thronging through the window of my upstairs bathroom. Why? What is in my bathroom that would induce them to climb all the way up to the first floor when the back door is wide open?
Having said all that, it doesn't matter what I think because as far as the voting system is concerned, I have been disenfranchised. Under the fifteen year rule (you lose your vote once you have lived outside the country for 15 years) I can no longer vote in the UK. Unlike thousands of others, I don't actually have a problem with that. However it is a problem because the country I do live in doesn't let me have a vote either and since Brexit even local elections are forbidden territory. Therefore I live in a democracy but I have no rights to express my wishes anywhere. And that is the problem.
Having rejected the invasion of ants via my front door, I discover that they are thronging through the window of my upstairs bathroom. Why? What is in my bathroom that would induce them to climb all the way up to the first floor when the back door is wide open?
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