Been here before.

So we are to have a royal wedding,it will be full of pomp and ceremony ,it will cost a fortune and ensure that they can breed and add to those who get the highest benefits in the land,because I am absolutely certain they won't live off their own incomes.
At the same time we have that Cameron man studying how happy the nation is,what that translates into is, seeing just how much more shit we can take before we become revolting peasants.He recently took business to china and brought back repression.
And peasants we will become,everyone relying on charity because the state will no longer care for the frail,sick and downtrodden,whilst those at the top make more and more profit on the backs of the proles,who thanks to idiot, out of touch judges will no longer be able even to make silly jokes and idle threats no matter how obviously idle they are.

It feels like the eighties,riots,poverty,job losses and royal weddings..........
Anyone remember the trafigura mischief,dumping toxic waste in poverty ridden Ivory Coast,well there is a documentary here,in French with English subtitles,if even a bit of this is true there should be some jail time due someone at trafigura.

In it together?.It will all end in tears.

When politics is getting a bit rough I always make jokes about getting the candles in,it is of course a reference to the three day week when we had power cuts etc which slowly but inexorably led to the winter of discontent.
I currently have a bad feeling and I am stocking up on metaphorical candles again.
The students have set the precedent  for the season and I am seeing calls for street protest cropping up all over the web there are facebook groups calling for runs on banks on a particular date,I won't link to these as I know that a run on a bank would mean a lot of ordinary Jo Publics losing their money because as we all know there is a large difference between real money and bank money,we have absolutely no confidence in politics as evidenced by a piece in the torygraph by that obnoxiously right-wing Peter Oborne,even he calls  parliament "rotten to the core".
We have the disabled and their carers setting up groups for support and lobbying purposes as they become more and more demonised by this government and the right-wing press.
The modern day equivalent of the national front,the EDL are attacking Muslims instead of the Jewish people they went after in the seventies.In the meantime disaffected Muslim youth are turning to extremist groups for a sense of belonging and identity and strangely some Jewish people are turning to the EDL for comfort.
It would seem some members of the conservative party consider street protests may get out of hand again soon too,Steve O'Connell a member of the London Assembly for Croydon and Sutton and a councillor in the London Borough of Croydon and one of the best paid reckons we should ban protests in the capital to save money.
The unemployed are being punished for not having a job by having their meagre poverty line welfare cut after a year of unemployment whilst the numbers of unemployed seem set to rise dramatically.
In the meantime we are again letting the bankers off by cutting the levy on banks' balance sheets.

Of course our students haven't had much rioting practise so aren't too good at it,hence the need for nine papers to have just one photo on their front pages ,the funniest though is that most of them show one rioter and two dozen photographers egging him on.
Then we have the farce that is currently our law,from the twitter joke trial to libel idiocy,no wonder everyone is angry/confused/worried about the future.
On a lighter note,whatever is wrong with me seems to be on the wane at the moment,fingers crossed it doesn't come back,I have my brain-scan due on the 24th so won't know anything until well after that.We are also waiting patiently for the arrival of a new grandchild and sister to our Poppy.
The images above are from here.