It was like there was no gap in Day to Day

Been a while since I wrote again. I still haven’t posted naked bike ride pictures and I’m sure there were other pictures I wanted to post. I am writing this at work. I am going to try and leave early today (I have to because I have my wife’s garage key in my pocket and she needs it to take the boy to Martial Arts class tonight). I will look for pictures to add to the end of this post when I get home.

Last week I took a day off on Thursday and drove into London to see friends Dave and Dickie. Dave emigrated to Canada 10 years ago and I haven’t seen him since then. It was sad, because we were close. We picked up exactly where we left off though. It was like there was no gap. He brought his daughter with him. Last time I saw her I could still pick her up. She’s now a young woman, which is scary.

In any case, we had a fabulous day and I’m so pleased to have made time to meet him again. Who knows, I may visit them in the Americas at some point. On a side note, Dickie is now planning to move to Australia and that leaves us on three continents. It has been suggested that we arrange our next get together in Hawaii. That would be awesome wouldn’t it. All my favourite things are in Hawaii, sun, beautiful beaches, pineapples, ukuleles. There is nothing bad about Hawaii.

Yesterday at work I got my 10 year service award. I know, 10 years is ridiculous isn’t it. I was presented with a slightly odd glass brick award thing, and I get to choose a gift. I have chosen a rather nice digital radio with blue tooth speaker. I thought my anniversary was in August to be honest.

Politically things are interesting in the UK right now. We have a new PM today. I’m quite excited by her. She looks tough. I think we need tough. She has been historically very keen on government sponsored invasion of privacy however. I’m still making up my mind. I’m still not sure why Boris dropped out of the running, and we currently have no opposition. The Lib Dem party has literally vanished and the Labour party is tearing itself apart.

The Labour party is in a fascinating position. The leader is fantastically popular with the party members, but hugely unpopular with the parliamentary party. In other words, the people love him, but his MPs don’t because they don’t think he can win an election. Inevitably this has led to a leadership challenge by MPs wanting to replace Jeremy Corbyn. The thing is, it’s not likely to work because the leader is elected by party members and not by MPs.

The MPs are probably right that Corbyn can’t win an election. The Labour party needs wealthy areas to vote for them to win . Wealthy (middle class) areas are very happy to vote against the Conservative Party because it eases their middle class guilt. They won’t vote for a hardcore socialist however. That’s a working class thing. Tony Blair realised all this and it resulted in New Labour. What can we conclude from this? Well I suppose it means that core Labour members don’t like Blair’s New Labour, but they voted for it because they had nowhere to cast their socialist vote.

Tony Blair incidentally is in all sorts of trouble. The Chilcot report was finally published last week and it trashed Blair. It stopped short of a calling his actions illegal, but he is facing all sorts of backlash including a potential contempt vote in the commons. I’m not sure what that will mean, but it can’t be good for Tony.

My God, look how much I have written. I can’t add pictures to this. I’ll post this now without pictures and do a picture entry later.