Do you "do" politics?

People tell me they "don't do politics". This is a position of privilege. Politics "does" us. If you are not currently in a demographic being directly threatened by Mrs May, then you might like to take a ticket and wait in the queue. She's targetted immigrants, the disabled, the sick, the unemployed, nurses, doctors, police. She's coming after pensioners with her new manifesto. And school children.

Who's next?
We have been taken down a rabbit hole with Breixt and everyone admits it was lies what done it. Even Brexiteers cheerfully admit the lies. I watched, incredulous, as Nigel Farage on the morning after the referendum, told breakfast television audiences that the £350m a year promised to the NHS was “a mistake”. Everytime I ask a committed Leave supporter about this, they just shrug and tell me "you lost, get over it" or "all politicians lie". The knock-on problem we now have is that decisions based on lies are problematic. For now, the Brexit cheer-leaders just enjoy their winning goal, like Maradona's hand of God. As if the only thing that matters in a decision that has ramifications for countries round the world, and for our own citizens for several generations, was the immediate satsifaction of a win on the night. This isn't a game of football and it won't be replayed in four years, so to revel in the short-term winning score-line of June 23rd 2016 is absurd.
We have to keep fighting at a grass roots level because there is some mighty blunder or stitch-up going on in Westminster. I offer the choice because I honestly can't tell. Are we in this mess because Corbyn is incompetent? Or is Corbyn the answer but the establishment has wheeled out every gun in the armoury to silence him? I don't know. But the effect is the same. Our parliamentary opposition has been ineffective of late and not content with this, Mrs May seeks to obliterate it.

If she succeeds our democracy is dead.

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