The quickening

So that was it. Our great day for democracy finally came and duly went and we are exactly where we were. Which is where? Exactly where we were on 17^th September, drifting aimlessly and rudderless, sextant and compass stolen by pirates, aboard the good ship Union with impending mutiny on the bridge and decks, under satellite navigation by the same gated elite who have fleeced us for so long we now consider organised kleptomania and government under instruction from financiers, arms dealers and other Nosferatu types as the natural order of things. There is no other way, apparently. Dismal defeatism has colonised a space once reserved for political will.

 

Play up, play up and play the game

 

or

Here we go, here we go, here we go

Okay, so we lost the first round. We're not even at the group stages yet. I think we should wait and see before anybody gets too triumphalist and the hubris too loud. On behalf of my fellow skulking neo-Jacobites, it obviously needs spelled out to Westminster and its cronies that they can forget about this being anything like over.

Union sympathisers can save energy and pack in the righteous indignation right now. Get real. We haven't forgotten Culloden for goodness sake. What on earth did they expect? Let's see how Westminster gets on with its Vow, if and when it gets permission from its corporate backers and other vested interests, who will naturally need reassured over £50K dinners at Chequers with the P.M., Chancellor, Home Secretary and quite possibly Lucifer himself that their interests will be safely fortressed against tiresome angry Picts ranting about democracy.

Years of living dangerously.

This is a corrected version of a piece from 2011. Only typos and the title needed amending. For the rest, the splendid word "stet" applies.

 

As May approaches, we thought it would be fitting to look back at the first year of the Coalition government and calmly examine their achievements and popular sentiment towards these and discuss what, if anything, we intend to do to stop the country being blackmailed any further into bonded penury by an out of control financial sector and its placemen in Westminster. Today, our editor-in-chief offers his own personal analysis, verdict and none-too-subtle call for organised and widespread civil disobedience.