Book buying in Canterbury today so not any local photos in the can, most of the photos are Ramsgate 2007
For the dedicated followers of the bookshop
If you want to look at the rest of the 2007 Ramsgate Carnival photos I published the as a series of linked pages.
This is the link to the carnival photos
This is the link to today's photos
Finally I am posting up my thoughts about
the political situation as we are in the middle of the BREXIT crisis and in
years to come I will want some sort of record.
There is a sort of theory that we live in a
democracy and that the idea of this is to choose the best and brightest people
to run the country. I think probably mainly because of the way the media
presents or politics, we are repeatedly told that all politicians are bad
people. I guess to some extent we have developed a situation where politics attracts
more bad people than it should. I would think this is mostly based on a lot of
people not wishing to stand, to be surrounded by bad people, to be presented as
a bad person and so on.
Of course to get to the top of either of
the main political parties you need to have the interests of the country as a
fairly high priority.
As far as I can see our MPs have basically
voted to give the decision about whether we stay in the EU or come out of the
EU over to the EU.
One big factor here is that because it was predominantly
old people who voted leave and the vote was very close, we now have a situation
where the number of older remain voters who died since the referendum, means that
if you count the people who voted that are still alive then we actually voted
to remain.
The next election is for district and
parish councillors. This is mainly the person who you phone up over rubbish
housing street cleaning etc.
I think the idea is we decide which
councillor would be best to resolve issues over the rubbish that hasn't been
collected or Street to the hasn't been swept, on the basis of whether or not we
don't like Jeremy Corbyn or Theresa May.
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