the unicorn has fallen.

the unicorn has fallen off the gate at buckingham palace.

now this is as interesting as the heron visiting no.10 downing street (escaping a gang of ruffian crows and heralding the fall of david cameron) and as portentous.

in the lion and unicorn equation (heraldic supporters of the british crown) the unicorn stands for scotland, the lion for england 


notably a free unicorn is considered a very dangerous beast (that is why it is shown chained). the welsh and the irish don't get a heraldic beast supporting the crown because

• a) people don't like to think much above two 
• b) that would be silly and spoil the composition 
• c) they are subject peoples and so can't be relied upon to support the crown (the loyalists excepted - look at the sterling paid work the DUP put in) 
• d) the scots could object they are subject people's too seeing as the royal family are no longer stuarts (james Vi of scotland becomes james I of england, scotland and wales - the three crowns) but sax-colbergs or whatever. and they would be right. 

ok the irish do make it in because there is a shamrock (together with the rose and thistle) in the greenery at the beasts’ feet (but no leeks).

the queen has been lied to by the utterly implausible boris johnson and done as asked closing down parliament. the queen has been dobbed in for interfering in the scottish independence vote when asked to do so by david cameron (by that blabbermouth david cameron). ladies and gentlemen, the queen.

horsemouth and his amazing performing tables

horsemouth is a big fan of performance tables (truly that boy has the soul of an accountant). but he is also reminded of the preforming table in capital, the one that like a medium’s table dances a jig made to dance by the invisible hand of the market rather than the feet and hands of the medium. he was reminded of this by the tailors of northern ireland opposing brexit based not on the work that goes into the jacket (marx’s point in his parable of the dress) but by the multiple places that the cloth, the interlining, the buttons come from, all of which will require certificates to get there.

the dairymen of both sides of the border have joined in also - under a no deal brexit a vet will be required to certify that the milk is fit for export before it has even left the cow. currently it is reckoned that they only have a tenth of the vets they need to write the certificates.

 tick-tock tick-tock...

horsemouth has worked and now he is resting (reproducing his labour value). next week he will do it all again (slightly less of it sadly) - ideally horsemouth would like to make as much money as the tax threshold as this would support him comfortably for the year without any need to dip his savings to support his extravagant lifestyle. sadly his savings will be being dipped already by the falls in the market as a result of brexit and by the fact that they will buy considerably less in europe, the states, papua new guinnea etc.

this weekend - another trip down to pop(u)lar to work on johnny remember me with enza and pete, (that reminds him - he should really get on with learning it) and possibly not much more (the necessary work of reproducing horsemouth’s labour value is the absence of work or even play).