Why? Does a 1965 song - It's Good News Week traipse through my mind when I turn on BBC radio 4 at 6 in the morning? Has anything changed in the news? Weirdly I have just listened to a session in parliament from an African news source. I suppose I should give thanks to the great god You tube.
The first thing from the BBC is the, by now, the old story of our deputy prime minister not paying stamp duty tax on her second or third home. Which is a flat down South in Hove, Sussex and so it says £800,000 in Bing News. Apart from the scurrilous amount of money asked for a flat, in a time when our young can't even afford a room in a house share. Where the hell is the Labour party going?
I can see why the new Green Party leader Zack Polanski is making such a showing in the news. As a once member of the Green Party I am intrigued by what will happen, the greens after all have a few seats in Parliament and we all know the British people will often vote for an abrupt change just for the pleasure of turning the tables (not a good habit).
The GP votes in a very fair way (and long) you end up with two deputies for each department. A little tale on that. Many, many years ago in Bath, I think the GP started in Bristol by the way, our small group used to have meetings in a wonderful old house in Corsham. One meeting we were voting on something, just a dozen or so in the room, and in marched a real red socialist called Derek Wall with his followers. I knew him as a young lad who would come on my husband's excavations. He turned the tables on the vote. And left me with the knowledge that not all things in the way of politics are nice ;) ;) How little I knew but have gained knowledge along the way.
So to my last link, which is a happy, personal one
Adrian Ramsey is our MP . Before the election we got newsletters every month, since the election - Nothing.
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