So, the visit of US President Donald J. Trump was a bit of a wet weekend…

…or was it?

I was astounded to read a Facebook post the other day from a young woman who said she was among 250,000 protesting in London against Mr Trump and his visit, when I had seen nothing about it on the news.  True, I hadn’t exactly searched every page of every news outlet in the UK to try and find anything, but a protest on that scale ought to have been a pretty major story, I would have thought.

Especially after Mr Trump had told Mrs May that any post-Brexit trade deal with the US will have to include… the NHS???!!!!

That alone should have sent millions of British citizens straight onto their streets in protest against Mr Trump and against the UK government even for agreeing to such an outrage.  What does Trump want with the NHS?  He reminds me of a certain British businessman who buys up retail companies that are failing, sacks most of the frontline staff and then rebrands them; his name is Mike Ashley.  Yes, Mike Ashley is our very own Donald Trump.  Thank God our political system prevents him from launching a bid to become the next UK Prime Minister.  Our political system does have its faults, yes indeed, but that is a lifesaver.

Besides which, Trump can’t have the NHS.  It belongs to the people of Britain.  To sell it would require a referendum; quite appropriate really, a referendum on the NHS, since most people are sick of referendums.

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Last night, the UK city of Peterborough held a by-election to try and find a new MP, less than two years after a General Election at which Fiona Onasanya was elected for the Labour Party, taking the seat from the Conservatives with a slim majority of around 600 votes.  But, two years is a long time in politics, and not only have we had the rise of the Brexit Party in the last few weeks, but we have also had the destruction of Ms. Onasanya’s political career (not to mention that of her party, but that’s for another rant).

Ms. Onasanya, it turned out, tried to abuse her political position when she and her brother were charged with not one but several counts of perverting the course of justice, after they were both charged with speeding offences.  She denied all charges, she was a committed Christian, she said, how could she do such things?  A trial jury failed to reach a verdict, but when she was retried, she was sent to jail for, I think, three months.

If 10% of the electorate of her constituency wanted her out, they could trigger a by-election; in the end, 27% signed the petition and Lisa Forbes, who had stood for Labour (and lost) in 2015, finally won for her party with another slim majority, 683.  In second place was not the Conservatives but the Brexit Party, pushing the Tories into third.

What of this?  Well, it appears that the party of our government, the Conservatives, are essentially coming third in our elections at this point.  And though the Brexit Party did well, ironically, in the EU elections last month, are they doomed to come second in elections across the country?  Time will, of course, tell.  I hope they do; I hope they never get elected anywhere.

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Ergo, ego.  George Galloway, former maverick MP and, more recently, former talkRADIO host, got the boot from that particular radio station after he sent an anti-Semitic tweet concerning Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, presumably after they played Liverpool in the Champions League Final (and lost).  Mr Galloway has an ego that could take in most of Manchester and still have room for large lengths of Liverpool, besides.

Mr Galloway likes everyone to know that he says what he thinks.  Unfortunately, what he thinks is a load of anti-Semitic shite and nonsense.  Indeed, he will find a way to blame Israel or Israelis for just about anything.  If there is a hike in the price of garden furniture, somehow it will be Israel’s fault.

With his permanent tan and tendency to wear Fedora hats indoors, not to mention his very… slow… speech… with… long… pauses, he was a frequent guest on the UK political institution Question Time.  It’s about time Mr Galloway was brought down to size.  And this sacking may do the job; it may not.  Have a read of this article concerning Mr Galloway’s Fedora Fascination; it really is an informative and entertaining read, although not if you are a fan of Mr Galloway’s, of which I suspect there are not many.

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Speaking of the Champions League Final, Liverpool F.C. won their sixth European title after defeating Tottenham 2-0 in an all-English final in Madrid, Spain.  Curiously, the 2019 UEFA Cup final, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, was also an all-English affair, and a much better game, too, with Chelsea knocking the stuffing out of Arsenal 4-1.

But Liverpool’s Champions League win came after a relatively dull final; perhaps any final would have been dull compared to their semi-final turnaround against Barcelona, when, trailing 3-0 after their first leg in Spain, they came back to Anfield to smash the opposition 4-0 and go through to the final.

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Today is the day UK Prime Minister Mrs Theresa May resigns her job, officially, as Leader of the Conservative Party and therefore as Prime Minister.  Since we have an amazing thirteen candidates to replace her, there is no replacement as yet lined up, so Mrs May will still be PM in effect until that replacement is found, which could be two months or more yet.

The problem here is ‘better the devil you know,’ because her resignation has led the way for a large number of pro-Brexiteers to stand to take her place.  Of course, professional idiot Boris Johnson is among them; but even he has said in recent days it’s going to be difficult to get Brexit through by October 31, the new deadline.  My view is that Johnson will somehow get himself elected the top job, and that will be disastrous for the UK, even worse than Brexit itself, in my opinion.  Any pro-Brexit candidate will not be good for Britain, but Johnson likes to be a buffoon at every opportunity.

Like his fellow ginger maniac, Donald J. Trump, Johnson is a former television host, as he served as guest host on a number of occasions for the UK satirical news programme Have I Got News For You.

Did you notice that even Johnson, along with his rival Michael Gove, Brexiteers both, said that they could not meet the EU’s deadline of October 31?  How weird is that?  Have they just blown their chances of success in the race for the top job?  x