Laughter In The Dark

[Progenitor A]

I move in dark empty circles
Awake when others sleep
Anti-democratic dark forces gnaw my innards
Campbell asserting (BBC) overthrowing democracy is democracy
Heseltine on BBC R4 (again) casting his decrepit pearls
Question Time, 4 days before a momentous vote, with a panel of 4 Remainers, 1 Leaver
In the small hours I prowl
Fearful for the future
Assailed by political incompetence of the grossest order
Hearing the oiled weasel-words of hypocrites
Dark despair threatens

Then.....
I read of Milligan and Secombe
Spike says to Harry:
'I hope that you are dead before me, because I do not want you singing at my bloody funeral'
Secombe does die before Milligan
At Spike's funeral in St Martin's-in-the-fields, Harry's son plays a recording of Harry singing 'Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer'

And laughter pierces the darkness
And I laugh
and laugh

And the darkness lifts

Until the Dawn

[mrsonde]

A tiny shimmer of hope, Nay. Hargreaves and some of the other original funders of the Leave campaign are meeting to mull over whether to fund a new Party, with the express purpose of campaigning in an election on the manifesto of pushing through the Referendum decision. The way things are and are increasingly looking like they're going - such a new party would really threaten the whole Order. Possibly they might even find themselves in power!

[alancalverd]

I had exactly the same thought as you were writing that. There are really only two significant issues that need urgent attention: Brexit and Universal Credit. A party that campaigned on nothing else would I am sure be returned with at least the balance of power and quite possibly a working majority.

Brexit: leave the EU, take full command of immigration, reassert fishing control, have whatever border the Irish Republic wants (they can do any negotiation they like with the rest of the EU - it's nothing to do with us), retain all existing legislation for at least 2 years, offer citizenship to any EU national who was living here and paying UK taxes on the day of the original referendum.

Universal Credit. Stop, find out what is going wrong, and fix it. No excuses. Let heads roll as required.

There is no other policy. Apart from these two issues, everything will continue as at present. We will not revise or invoke any legislation or regulation for the next 2 years except in response to an emergency, but we will set up a commission to review all laws passed in the last 50 years and recommend any changes to parliament for discussion after 2 years.

Two years hence, we will call another general election. If members of the New Party wish to stand, they will do so as representatives of their constituents' interests, not of party policy.