I know I am an insignificant, ranty old lady, but what I find so very hard to get my head around is how many of those who are driving the far-right Brexit shitshow have simply abandoned any pretense of decency, truth, democracy, empathy or patriotism to fill their own or
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the Tory party’s pockets.
This makes me inutterably sad.
It shouldn’t, at my age.
I should have learned by now the truth of ages, but I honestly thought we were somehow more advanced, & had learnt from the bleakness of centuries of conflict at least some
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of the lessons.
To my horror, we have learned nothing at all!
All those wars, all that blood, all the agony of generations of innocents is as nothing to these modern graspers of power.
It has been a shattering shock.
I weep for my kids.
I weep for my country & I bloody
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hate the arrogant, selfish, greedy traitors who’ve sold us out instead of protecting us.
I wonder if it’s ever occurred to them that to have been a benign instead of a malignant force would’ve been in their interests & ours?
Ah well.
Goodnight friends, & up yours, enemies.
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