Saturday 3rd December

It is tempting to despair of mankind’s stupidity, especially in the light of 2016’s two big Democratic cock-ups; Brexit and Trump.  Facebook is full of predictions of doom, and despair at the apparent rise of the Right and the demise of the Left. And as each day passes and some of the predictions regarding Brexit manifest themselves with more and more dire forecasts regarding our economic future, and the apparent vacuum at the Heart of Government regarding our plans, both for the Brexit negotiations and life after, it is easy to think that the end is nigh…

When we see the news coming out of America, with Trump handing out jobs such as Environment to complete Climate Change Deniers and even the head of the CIA (a known Republican) warning the President Elect about the dangers of loosening Nato ties or befriending Russia, one does have to wonder if it is all some grotesque nightmare – or is it really happening.  Well, it is happening, and we are just going to have to get used to it.

But we must not despair.  We must organize our resistance and wait.  There will come a time, hopefully not too far in the future when the Right-wing will fail.  All Presidents become unpopular, and the Donald was elected by less than half the voters; the Brexit result was only won by a very small margin.  There are already a lot of unhappy people.  In two or three years time things may look quite different.  Jeremy is now seen on television every week at PMs questions and he is getting better, eventually his message will start to get through.

And one day the pendulum will start to swing back…

And as if to re-enforce this message, last night the Lib-Dems on a proud anti-brexit message beat Zac Goldsmith in Richmond.  The fightback has begun…