Tuesday 26 December 2017
Sovereignty
Fellow remain voters tempted to snark at ‘Leavers’ complaints that sovereignty won is now being (mis)used by parliament – along the lines of “isn’t this what they asked for?”, and presumably followed by much self-congratulatory guffawing at their own cleverness – are rather missing the point. That is that sovereignty lies somewhere along the line of existing only within the people, to something granted to parliament through the express wishes of the people. Either way it suggests to me that whether by accident or otherwise, your Leave voter’s position on this particular detail is more nuanced; or, in other words, correct.
Sunday 24 December 2017
This is just to say
This is just to say
I have wrapped
the presents
that were in
the cupboard
and which
you were probably
thinking were
for you
Forgive me
yours were not
so important
and so forgotten.
I have wrapped
the presents
that were in
the cupboard
and which
you were probably
thinking were
for you
Forgive me
yours were not
so important
and so forgotten.
Saturday 10 June 2017
We see what we want to see
I know nothing. I was reasonably sure of Remain, more confident that Hilary would clout Trump, and convinced that people would see through Corbyn. And now I wonder where the percentages lie; how many voted for the party despite their leader, how many ignored or denied his past, or accepted his own warped history of those troubled times, or, worryingly, how many see no shame at all.