"Jim Carroll
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 03:58 AM"

As far as the few BS threads I read goes..

Definitely "post of the year"...!!!

We'll never know how good a Labour politician Jim could have been,
but he is definitely one of my favourite elder thinkers,
worth respecting and reading [not deleting],
when he is on form...


As to politicians we do have now or in the future..

Just because we vote for the ones on our sides who put themselves forward in public,
doesn't mean they are up to doing the job well if they do get elected...

Blind uncritical loyalty in the face of obviously poor quality leadership
is a symptom and cause of far worse to come...

Europe learnt that lesson the hardest way, long ago in my Mother's childhood.
The survivors dreamt of and endeavoured to build a better future for humanity..

So futile..

.. and now we have boris and dom...
the politically equivalent devastation of a neutron bomb...!!!