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I feel very, very depressed tonight.
All of us ordinary people who’ve spent years, decades, bringing up good, decent, tolerant, talented, hard-working young people to be proud citizens (not flag-waving ignoramous “patriots’) of a country we foolishly thought was a stable,
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All of us ordinary people who’ve spent years, decades, bringing up good, decent, tolerant, talented, hard-working young people to be proud citizens (not flag-waving ignoramous “patriots’) of a country we foolishly thought was a stable,
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liberal, western democracy, have seen all that we once took for granted thrown aside by the ugly extremist wolves now in place in No.10.
I am so angry at the loud, braying, hateful betrayal of the real heroes they pretend to honour, those who fought to repel the very
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I am so angry at the loud, braying, hateful betrayal of the real heroes they pretend to honour, those who fought to repel the very
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viciously exclusive fascism they now embrace so cruelly & enthusiastically.
I am so angry & so ashamed that all we taught our kids to respect has been trashed by a bunch of obnoxious, greedy, immoral, dg-whistling politicians who would be more at home in Russia, Trump’s
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I am so angry & so ashamed that all we taught our kids to respect has been trashed by a bunch of obnoxious, greedy, immoral, dg-whistling politicians who would be more at home in Russia, Trump’s
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disgusting GOP USA or Xi’s China.
I neve dreamt I would hear a British Prime Minister follow the populist rhetoric of these disgusting despots, by openly attacking the hard-won democratic, human, judicial, and simple decency rights for which we were, such a short time ago,
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I neve dreamt I would hear a British Prime Minister follow the populist rhetoric of these disgusting despots, by openly attacking the hard-won democratic, human, judicial, and simple decency rights for which we were, such a short time ago,
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admired the world over.
I don’t know how this ends.
Who will stand up to this?
I’m probably too old, too feeble to see it put right, but I want these wreckers to pay the price for their destruction of this country’s recent values, notwithstanding the disgraces of Empire,
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I don’t know how this ends.
Who will stand up to this?
I’m probably too old, too feeble to see it put right, but I want these wreckers to pay the price for their destruction of this country’s recent values, notwithstanding the disgraces of Empire,
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shared by so many countries.
I truly believed we were moving on, growing up as a world.
All of this manufactured hatred against those who meant us no harm, whom I believe only wanted friendship, peace & prosperity for so many people, after centuries of carnage
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I truly believed we were moving on, growing up as a world.
All of this manufactured hatred against those who meant us no harm, whom I believe only wanted friendship, peace & prosperity for so many people, after centuries of carnage
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between European neighbours is shameful, heartbreaking & utterly counter-productive.
Kill me now.
I’m done.
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Kill me now.
I’m done.
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