Another lost seat?

I didn't get much sleep on election night. I went to bed at about 1.00am but kept the radio on all night, drifting in and out of consciousness as the results came through, leaving the pundits as bamboozled as I was. I've been recovering ever since...

It could've been a lot worse, of course! The Tory landslide I'd feared so much when the election was announced certainly failed to materialise (thank goodness!) and I take my hat off to Jeremy Corbyn for his absolutely brilliant campaigning; his passion and positivity, in the face of so much scurrilous and vindictive media coverage, made for a welcome alternative to the negativity and non-appearances of Teresa May.

I just hope the Parliamentary Labour Party, the wider membership and fellow-travellers, will now stay genuinely united behind Corbyn and keep up the momentum (no Corbynista-style pressure group pun intended!), whilst the Tories collapse into recriminations and in-fighting.

May's marriage of convenience with the reactionary anti-choice/homophobic/creationist/climate-change deniers of the DUP looks like a decidedly risky strategy, not least because it makes any pretence of the Westminster government's impartiality in Irish politics impossible to maintain. Her willingness to let her advisors take the fall for her own hubris and bad choices also speaks volumes.

Another election could well be in the offing, sooner rather than later. And, at last, we - in England at least - have a credible opposition party to rally around (I hesitate to opine in relation to the rest of the UK!).

Strange days, indeed. But there is still a lot of work to do and a lot of government policies to oppose, so let's not get as complacent as Teresa May did!!


Here's Sam Cooke with his glorious song 'A Change Is Gonna Come' www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4