forward to scottish independence (horsemouth goes walkies with howard)

so forward to scottish independence.

 question. 

... and will we see wee willie krankie in the tower and bused in british troops preventing scots from voting (as in catalunya) and after all that will the spanish veto them (re)joining the EU? (oh look another land border with the EU) and will faslane become like guantanamo? will betty remain head of state? or will it be a republic?

if the scots rejoin the EU (huzzah) will horsemouth be able to get EU citizenship courtesy of his scottish grandmother (born in yorkshire)?  

meanwhile south of the border (in what the english laughably call the north). 

tracy brabin has been elected as west yorkshire’s first-ever metro mayor.

this means she will have to give up her day job as an MP.

this means labour face another by-election up north in batley and spen while the natives are restless and ungrateful. 

it looks like, while labour have the opportunity to delay going for a by-election, once mandated by a writ (usually within 3 months), it should take place within roughly 21 to 27 days.  so september?

yesterday horsemouth digested the political news and went off for walkies with howard 

(this time they were trying not to end it by getting slaughtered in a pub like last time). 

they got the bus up and wandered round wanstead park. they got an ice cream in at the tea hut and then sat watching the lake and the people with a bottle of beer. (howard brought the bread and humous, horsemouth brought the beer) the people were gorgeous. they tried visiting the arches but it was a bit shit. 

and then they walked back. howard had had a sore throat and had lost his voice the previous day. he recommended the donald byrd track at the start, horsemouth recommended the writings of robert walser. 

today. the electricity and gas people are coming to fit smart meters. horsemouth has changed suppliers and its part of the deal but frankly he should have stayed with the last lot. prices haven't gone up (particularly) but consumption has gone up because people are at home more as a result of lockdown/ working from home/ increasing age and disability. in any event there are penalties for leaving them early so horsemouth will be staying with them until february.  the sums are small RENT is the big expenseand and from june (together with council tax and water rates) it will be getting bigger. nonetheless locked down/ furloughed  horsemouth is saving money hand over fist. 

howard remarked that now horsemouth was a man of leisure (rather than a beast of burden) he would have to find something to do with his time. (will he though?)