The end of May

In a feat of Gregorian gymnastics the end of May will be in early June.

I did say when she became PM, that she had been the most incompetent Home Secretary in living memory. Highlights included the "hostile environment" including sending vans around London telling people to go home, suppressing a report on drugs policy, and not taking any strategic oversight of the fundamental changes in policing, such as the growth of Cyber Crime and fraud, in the six years she was in post. In true police fashion, the most incompetent one of the lot got promoted because no-one who was any good wanted the job.

And yet again, the public are spectators in who becomes the Prime Minister of this country. Some rail against the EU for its democratic deficit, and they have a point. But how about this for a balance sheet in who gets to choose our Head of Government (in my living memory), all based on their initial uptake of the post:

1974 Harold Wilson - general election
1976 Jim Callaghan - party election
1979 Mrs Thatcher - general election 
1990 John Major - party election
1997 Tony Blair - general election 
2007 Gordon Brown - no election
2010 David Cameron - general election 
2016 Theresa May - party election
2019 ??? - party election

And while I'm at it, many seem to have been disenfranchised in the UK EU elections yesterday. So to add to the insult of not having been given a vote in the referendum, life has been as difficult as possible for EU citizens to vote in this election, as well as many Brits abroad, two groups with amongst the highest stakes in our membership of the EU.

No tears were for Grenfell, none for Windrush, only for herself. Goodbye Theresa, I'm not crying for you.

Yours, 
A citizen of the world.