Tremors

[davidgillon]

I thought I was handling the election result, I'm used to being represented by Tories here in Kent. But then I found out that Bishop Auckland, my home town, which has been Labour since forever, went Tory, and that shook me. And then I found out that Blyth Valley, my parent's home town, that's even more Labour than Bishop, where my great uncle Tol was the Labour mayor, and where I spent every weekend until my teens, went Tory, and that, I have no words.

That isn't the sound of 'the red wall falling', it's generations of miners, including my grandfathers, spinning in their graves.

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[capri0mni]

Thank you.

Meanwhile, Trump is being impeached for abusing his power and obstructing Congress. And the Majority Leader of the Senate said on national television that the Senate Republicans would help mount his defense.

Now, according to the United States Constitution, when a president is impeached, the Senate is supposed to act as the jury.

Imagine if a Mafia Boss was finally caught, and the trial was scheduled, and the foreman of the jury publicly announced that he would be helping the defense before the trial even started.

I have this dread that 2020 will be the year that the United Kingdom stops the United, and the American experiment with democracy will ultimately fail.

In the 1980s, the UK and the US mirrored each other with Thatcher and Reagan, and we're mirroring each other again with Johnson and Trump... and we're both crashing at the bottom of the slippery slope.

[davidgillon]

I wish I could disagree with any of this.

[capri0mni]

I'm trying not to end one year and start the next in a pool of 100% pessimism, but I'm only marginally successful so far.