Sod off, Elon Musk

The landline rang yesterday and a woman in a busy call centre was on the other end. She had an Indian accent.

"Am I speaking to Mr Stephenson?" she asked. I lied and said that she was, so she launched into her script about being from the Microsoft security department. I interrupted her by saying that she was not from Microsoft - she was a criminal.

"YOU ARE A MOTHERFUCKER!" she screamed. "MOTHERFUCKING JERK!" She was obviously having a bad day but it was an entertaining start to mine.

Yesterday I suddenly realised what the social atmosphere in this country at the moment  reminds me of. All of us who voted to remain in the E.U. in the deeply depressing days following the referendum were being told that we were bad losers, we were moaners and we should just accept the will of the majority and look forward to all the golden opportunities that being independent from our closest continent would bring.

Now that Labour have got in, the only people who are not behaving like the spoilt children we were accused of being are the Conservative Party themselves. They have been positively gracious, but under the circumstances there is not a lot else they can be.

There is the usual blame being dished-out by Labour for situations that neither party could have had any control over, and dire warnings about a grim future are being given by the Right this time, not the Left, but it is business as usual in the long run.

Starmer has been forced to hit the ground running by the spate of riots across the country and - by Jove - he is doing a good job in arresting hundreds of them and sending them to prison for long stretches in record time. He has convicted some anti-fascist rioters as well as the fascists themselves, so no more bollocks about two-tier policing please.

Elon Musk has been causing more disgraceful damage than even that git in a five star hotel in Cyprus by promoting the accusations of two-tier policing in Britain, claiming that Britain is building concentration camps against free speech and predicting that civil war in Britain is 'inevitable'.  He is just another embittered right-winger, but the difference is that he has 190,000,000 followers on the platform he hi-jacked by buying it, and there is no moderation available on his tweets.

We are often accused of meddling in U.S. politics when we make reasonable observations about Donald Trump, but the thing is that the President of the U.S.A. is the most powerful person in the world and the decisions made by him/her affect all of us - for good or ill. It IS our business.

The murder of those children has brought a lot of scum to the surface and even gave a very dubious excuse to normally moderate people to begin showing support for the rioters. Yes, there is a problem with mass immigration to this country, but stop looking for scapegoats. It will take time to sort it out and civil war will not fix it.