30th September 2018

Yesterday Him indoors made a painful decision about his beloved, but ageing and now unaffordable Land Rover. Elsewhere in Bham, today begins the Tory party conference. Last week saw the Labour conference, where FB was awash with US WTF comments about images of a sea of Palestinian flags being waved!  Neither the average American nor I can understand how any country, at a major political rally, would be waving someone else’s flag. Par contre, we can expect a sea of Union Jacks at the Tory conference here, where they propose a new Festival of Britain, nearly 70 years after the original one. That’s the choice for voters:  one party which promotes someone else’s flag, never flies the Union Jack and believes in discredited Marxist policies or the party which understands that the only way to improve citizens’ lives is via free enterprise in the face of global competition and digital technology. Like Him indoors’ problem, are the Labour ideals now aged and unaffordable?  A decision will soon need to be made.