Another Country

Thank goodness the UK election is over. I have been getting fed up with the hype and particularly the gripes and rants on social media. Even blipfoto has been used to air views with some political vitriol, which is not what I thought it was for. 

I am grateful to have been able to watch events unfold from a position of some disinterest, but cannot help but feel relief that the result is as it is.

Swinging from one extreme to another every five years is hardly a sound recipe for recovery, regardless of who holds the reins at any time. And a small majority will mean that policies will have to have broad appeal or they will not get through.

Why is it when socialism is rejected by the majority of the UK, the losers bleat about proportional representation? That system would have allowed many more UKIP MPs and far fewer SNP, but would have made no difference to the result.

And another moan from the supporters of a party that has just been blown out of the political water is that it's the south that's to blame for all their ills. The north has been ravaged by the Tories and left as a wasteland. So it is with some irony that Berwick-Upon-Tweed, England's northernmost constituency, voted the Lib Dems out and the Conservatives in, and was seat number 326, the one that gave David Cameron his majority.

If you really don't like what's happening in your country, go and live in one you do like.

It worked for me!