better must come (india song)

friday and horsemouth was up disgustingly early (but it’s ok he had his coffee and the day was not that long. next friday though (dew) that’s a long’un).

horsemouth can’t help but remark on the enthusiasm people he knows are showing for electoral politics (of the stick a cross in a box and then go back to work making money for ‘the man’ for the next five years of your life variety). is there a whiff of the 70ies about proceedings or the 40ies?

it is nice to see a labour party with a socialist program - horsemouth looks forward to the destruction of universal credit (aka. kill the poor) and its replacement by something humane, more funding for the NHS, and possibly a more sensible tax system. the list of areas where it is possible to do better than the existing situation is practically endless. and this is part of the problem, there is an almost endless amount of legislative work.

but here we go - can labour win?

can labour win big enough to be able to do even some of what they want? could happen. failing that can they get into power with an alliance? could happen. er. would they still be able to do anything useful then? er maybe. if corbyn gets into 10 downing street won’t his every policy be held hostage by blairite labour MPs, probably.

we the people (who should know better) - of course horsemouth remembers the things can only get better election (this is a considerably better offer than that). but, of course, horsemouth (and his friends) should know better than to believe in the possibilities of electoral politics. it is not enough to have a manifesto of hope, but even this looks good by recent standards.

'... it's the voice that acts, that produces desire and emotion. the voice is stronger than physical presence. it's as important as the face, the eyes, the smile. a real letter is moving because it's spoken, written with the spoken voice...' - margueritte duras, practicalities.