Why oh why oh why am I watching BBC Question Time again #bbcqt

This time next week, the first results of the General election will be announced. There’s always a constituency that races to be first to give a result. It won’t be a real indication of what the result will be, but I have a feeling that my heart will sink.

I was brought up believing that my country was the greatest country in the world and my version of christianity was the one true religion. It is becoming increasingly obvious that if we were the greatest country in the world. This was a marketing trick which was sold to the people of Great Britain, England, or possibly the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We were great and based on fair play. Imigration made us diverse and greater than the sum of it’s parts. At the same time, we were dumb as fuck. My lifetime has been dominated by how great we were in WWII. The Empire was amazing and the queen (ERII) is the best sovereign ever! Brexit has poisoned everything and it is exposing failures in out education system over the last 40 years (IMHO).

The truth about out country is that we this country is and always has been divided. Since the 1980’s the North/South divide was obvious, but it was always more subtle than that. Some areas in the north and the south broke these rules. Having said that, there was some happy equilibrium. But equilibriums aren’t a balance and they dont last for long. Many butterflies have flapped their wings and chaos has been triggered.

I’m lost for anymore words, but not for feelings!