Its not bicycle weather, or at least it hasn't been this past weekend, but I have high hopes for the coming weeks. But high on those hopes these past few weeks has been that the UKIP people would realise the stupidity of their little englander manifesto. Sadly this has not been the case and nearly four and a half million people have voted for them. Also the fall of liberalism in the UK is a worry. I am not a liberal, socialism has too much of a pull on me but I have often seen them as the sensible opposition and often allies (compared to the Tories - who will have no choice but to go further right for the coming UK elections). Thus, the weather is the least of our problems and as I see Europeans lurching to the right and the rise of nationalism, even in Paris and around Europe, I really wonder where we are going. Part of me thinks - four and half million, well that's nothing, we have another fifty-six million to consider. But then again, I can see how and why this is a problem - we need to get more people to vote. One question I really want to ask (even of The Guardian) is why did the little englanders get so much coverage? For example the Greens got next to none at all, compared to last time. Its all a bit BC, bonkers-conkers, as we say in our house. My feeling is we are looking at the potential rise of a new Thatcherism unless we (all of us) wake from our political apathy. I can't stand up, for falling down...
