Sunday 13 September 2015

Good kings, bad kings


It is difficult not to keep droning on about the Corbyn landslide at the moment, so fresh in our minds is the political bombshell.

Two things are worrying me a little - that he will suddenly start wearing slick, shiny suits and red ties, and that he will pretend he has a good sense of humour by reading carefully-crafted jokes written for him by out-of-work, left-wing BBC playwrights, rather like Margaret Thatcher excruciatingly did.

There are quite a few thousand people currently working in the arms industry who are in fear of losing their jobs in the next five years as well. Let's hope that he can find alternative incomes for them if he ever fulfils his ambition of scrapping Trident. I wonder what their union is? Are they even allowed to have one?

Actually, there is another worry lurking in the back of my mind as well, and that is that I do not recall ever meeting a tee-total vegetarian who I actually warmed to, let alone liked. Vegetarians, yes. Tee-totals yes too (but not as many), but the two combined? Never.

In the cold light of the first post-election dawn, I am beginning to think this one through. All the 'what ifs' are starting to surface, the biggest one being 'what if he actually became Prime Minister?'

Oliver Cromwell lasted eight years. That's a hell of a long time to go without Christmas and associated dancing and revelry. He had to have a king killed to get into power as well. The entire Romanov family were put to death for the sake of a socialist ideology. Most of the French aristocracy went the same way. For a monarchist like me, these are disturbing thoughts.

You know what the worst thing about democracy is? The potentiality for mob-rule and fascism. Churchill was wrong on this subject.

30 comments:

  1. I feared for Trident as soon as I saw the result.

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    1. I've been afraid of Trident ever since the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

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    2. I don't understand you sometimes. Do you want comments or not?

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  2. Surely he'll never make it to PM. If Labour couldn't get in with someone as inoffensive as Miliband, they haven't got a hope with Corbyn. Over here, it's tempting to regret democracy these days, too, with Trump leading the polls. If it's up to the voters, he could actually get elected. The RNC would never stand for it though; they may have to arrange for his demise.

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    1. 'Did you mean', NRA?

      Milliband/s was/were a dual clone sent in from outer space. More immigrants.

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    2. The RNC, the Republican National Committee, is the Republican Party organization. We don't refer to them as "the party" because it's too commie sounding for American ears.

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    3. I found Miliband very offensive, as did many others, Shawn.

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    4. I just found him unacceptably weird.

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  3. Oh don't worry about losing your head Tom, for I doubt very much that a plebeian monarchist and actuary at The Bell such as yourself will ever be in line of fire.

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    1. Did you translate that from Irish Gaelic using Google? I may need to do the same in reverse.

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    2. You are probably one of the main reasons why other people do not get too much involved with comments on my posts, because unlike you, not many of us are seeking thrills which we cannot find in every day life.

      I have blocked you in the past, because I really think that if I let you stay, then I would be forced to be very rude to you on a personal level, but Google has stopped this blocking business.

      So - fair warning - if you hang around here, then I will just be very rude to you, on every level.

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    3. You never blocked me. It was me that blocked you and recently I had a change of heart and unblocked you. As for being rude swearing and the like you have done so on numerous occasions. It has no effect whatsoever and only makes me laugh :)

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    4. I could never understand how any blogger who has stopped being followed by any other blogger, could demean themselves to such an extent that they would change their names in order to get re-followed again. You must be one hell of a lonely and desperate person. I did block you, but Google changed their policy. EVERYONE I KNOW has blocked you, you simpleton, but - alas - all our good work has been undone for the sake of Mammon,

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  4. The best thing about this Corbyn business is watching Old Blimps like Cro trying not to suffer strokes, heart-attacks and apoplexy as a medical consequence of the official result. Well worth the £3 it took to cast my surrogate vote!

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  5. Here was thinking that you and Cro were the best of pals. Hope you haven't had a lovers tiff ?

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    1. You are so completely out of touch with the actual, real world, Melvyn. I have been friends with Cro for almost 50 years, whereas I have known of your existence for about 2.

      Nothing you could say could put a rift between us, so I think you should take your bat and ball away and go home - just so long as you don't return to Bath.

      You must be so fucking bored where you are now, that I am coming close to worrying about how the Autumn of your life is going to transpire.

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    2. Correction - Winter of your life.

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    3. Do not be concerned about me Tomás, I am in fine fettle all systems all are fully functioning.
      I shall return to Bath in May of next year, so keep your eyes open for me. Might even buy you a drink.

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    4. You are unjustly arrogant if you think I would accept a drink from you of all people - you who have been so hypocritical as to suggest that I have the same sort of drink problem as you suffer from in the isolation of a rural existence surrounded by imaginary friends and colleagues in an imaginary world populated by imaginary and fictitious spiritual companions.

      I am sure all your systems are functioning just as well as they ever were. Modern medicines are great for the male sex-life, I am told.

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    5. Sock it to him Tom; the man's an arsehole.

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  6. Keep calm and carry on Tom - anything can happen in the next few years before it comes anywhere near a General Election - which I dont think he would win anyway if the present lot kept on course with the economy - when a General election looms folk vote for their pocket not their ideals.

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    1. A week - never mind 4 years - is a very long time in politics, as the old cliche goes, Weave.

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  7. When I click on your illustration it turns negative; how did you manage that?

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    1. So it does. I hadn't clicked on it before, so I've only just seen. None of my artful doing!

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    2. Whatever you did, keep doing it; it's fun.

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    3. That's what God said to my mother on her deathbed.

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