‘paris alone is as fine as Ys’

horsemouth (metropolitan elite clearly) is a revoke article 50 man - yes the EU is an undemocratic bodge (but so is the UK), horsemouth would settle for something (anything) that didn’t fuck the economy - not because he loves capitalist profits but because he hates worker poverty. horsmouth is not particularly interested in sovereignty - neither westminster nor brussels but an increased worker’s share of GDP.

(is horsemouth alone in being vaguely disgusted that the woman from the tuc and the woman from the cbi are appearing on the news hand in hand)

meanwhile elsewhere in the mediascape cabaret was on (channel 81, horsemouth is warming to it) . we are slumming it, ‘divine  decadence’ says liza minelli, peter york an unfeasibly pretty isherwood, bob fosse’s cold formation dancehall grinds, the MC. we play at bohemia, love is victorious, love is defeated, people sell what they have got, the nazis rise, bohemia survives, we get the train out (tourists that we are). rich man’s brecht (but affecting for all that).

last night on the news horsemouth watched the founder of an online petition to revoke article 50 be slapped soundly round the court by an angry young man from up north with an interest in democracy and the will of the people. the soft southern petition founder (long hair, bearded) smiled his superior metropolitan smile - the angry young man (short hair, clean shaven) vanished all the crowds of hundreds of thousands who will gather in london today, of the millions voting online to revoke article 50, and turned the tens marching for brexit down from the north into the 52% (of the people who voted or were allowed to vote muttered horsemouth).

these are secular times so he didn’t claim they had god on their side but it was a close run thing.

farage is widely derided for his rerun of the jarrow march but it’s a canny move - a plucky underdog move for him and his millionaire backers, the problem is timing it’s arrival (and the fact that it’s a fuck of a long way and the fact that most of the marchers are not exactly in the first flush of youth).

meanwhile in paris they have banned the gillets jaunes demonstrations.

don’t say horsemouth never takes you anywhere.