You know what CBB. Bad stuff happens all the time. Governments have to make decisions, and sometimes there are unintended consequences, like with this poor lady's daughter. Stuff like this happened during Labour administrations too, and personally I find it rather distasteful that people try to make political capital out of such a tragedy.
As for climate change and that brave multi-millionaire Jane Fonda speaking out, the issue here is not belief that it is happening, but the solution to it. As has been pointed out several times, the Chinese and Indians are still building new coal fired power stations. The South Americans are still cutting down rain forest. Who is dealing with the root cause of this? Its not us and our ginormous Christmas tree farm, is it..? We can plant a gazillion trees and its like pissing in the wind.
You and Rod can put up memes and twitter snippets all you like, but no-one is changing their minds here because pointing out the failings in the Tories is not addressing the fundamental issue of
'why is Labour going to be any better?'.
Thats the question. You know the first bit of the Corbyn campaign I saw was him dealing with the complex problem of homelessness, and I quote...'What will we do about the homeless.? We'll buy them all a house..!'.
Its just facile nonsense, with no idea of how this god-almighty bill will ever be paid. Its Payday Loan politics at its very worst. There is no plan, there's no theme, there's no word of wealth creation, there's nothing of any substance at all in anything that comes out of them. Its all just giveaways and pointless spending, and most of the money to do it will be borrowed. They can't even make their mind up on Brexit. Corbyns ridiculous stance is because the parliamentary party don't want it but their voters do. They are trying to engineer a situation where, with the votes of all those astute and politically savvy 16 year olds, we can vote Remain in the re-run and pretend none of this ever happened.
Labour should be looking at a landslide victory against a government with as poor a record as the Tories. Yet they are 12 points behind and relying on the 'Trillion pound giveaway' to wow us all, and LibDems to vote tactically for them to try and deny Boris a majority. This fact alone should give you a clue as to the complete incompetence of Corbyn and the Labour Party. We've been here before, and it ends in tears.
For the absolute first time at 58, I will be hoping the Tories win a clear majority, not out of any like or even hope that Boris is the guy. He is an idiot, but he is an idiot who will not bankrupt us as a nation. He will get stuff done. some of it will be good, some of it will be bad, but he will get it done. So to summarize, I may be losing a foot, but at least I'm not losing a leg.