in the golden valley

good morning! good morning! here the sun has just made it up over the hill opposite and is illuminating the mist in the valley and the vapour trails in the blue sky. 

horsemouth is up earlier than he would have thought because it is cooler at night. he has no pre-prepared material to give you and no central inspiring topic. 

'I always like to say that the mass media is not behind workers, it’s behind capital, and everybody can sense it. I really understand people who don’t like to appear in front of the camera anymore.' 

so said director srđan kovačević, director of factory to the workers about ITAS, a worker-owned factory in croatia. the course of self-management and autogestion never ran pure and the factory is divided between the youngsters who need to get paid and the oldsters who still believe in some kind of a co-operativism.  horsemouth heard about it in an article in the guardian but of course they return to tropes of 'idealism' and how workers' control can never work. 

it  is of course idealistic to imagine a world where we are not bossed about by guardian and daily torygraph readers (daily mail also).

it is the labour conference where they are preparing for power. it is not of course a given that they will get it but it is looking likely for the first time in 13 years. they are preparing to sneak into office not on a mandate that they will do something different from the conservatives but merely that they aren't the conservatives. once in office events will limit what they can actually do (should they actually wish to do it). this will save them having to make any arguments based on socialist principles.   

the disadvantage of horsemouth's room is that having gotten up the sun blasts straight into horsemouth's eyes. horsemouth likes to be up early he likes to maximise the amount of daylight. the valley looks good in the morning. 

yesterday was an annoying day with a number of unnecessary setbacks. horsemouth (sad to say) lost his temper and had to go for a stomp around on the common until he had calmed down. by the end of it the oven had been affected by the general mood and decided not to work. 

in the end the drama of the world abated and horsemouth watched the long chase  and then psychomania in youtube. today - horsemouth guesses there will be more of the same.