tory grandee sir roger gale last week became the first tory to say he had sent his letter to the chairman of the 22 committee. if 54 letters in favour of a vote of no confidence in johnson are received , they will be required to stage one. lord frost may be jumping ship because he knows he can make nothing of the brexit turkey he's been given rather than the 'principled' non-brexit reasons he has been giving, but still it is damaging for boris. boris the club-footed's recent performance won't make frost think he is likely to miss anything by not staying on. ah but the news just keeps on giving.
the consequences in the north could be quite profound. the DUP are threatening to bail from stormont bringing back direct rule from the UK.
well at least there's christmas (maybe that will prove a circuit breaker). what boris should be doing is calling another lockdown (but he probably doesn't have the balls or the political capital right now).
2022 is of course pronounced 2020 (II)
'here's hoping 2021 will be a better year and the forces of light will win out over the forces of darkness and an arcadia or utopia will be established' wrote horsemouth at the end of 2020. horsemouth has kept an eye on politics but so far there's been no magical transformation. he has been waiting for that moment when 'something new is started that cannot be expected' (to quote hannah arendt).
we move towards the solstice and horsemouth's reliance on cyclic time. soon we will be heading back up into the light.
today horsemouth still hasn't sent his letter. yesterday he once again forgot there was no one o'clock show. he went up onto the hill on the common but it was a misty day and he couldn't see over to the black mountains.
horsemouth is holding out for the next episode of the hawkbinge podcast. it's only PXR5, which is an album of grab bag tracks released after the band who had recorded it had been sent their separate ways, it's unfinished business. lots of hawkwind is unfinished business, there's a song about flight, the only ones on hawklords, surely that should have been on captain lockheed and the starfighters? each album is just a snapshot, an assemblage, distorted by attempts at a hit single, stuffed with tracks recorded live and solos by players long since ejected into deep space.
early next year there's that strange and solitary outbreak of musical competence levitation (of course what there should be is the transitional and crowd-pleasing live 79).
today a misty day. horsemouth will have breakfast and then head out on his usual walk up onto the common.
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