Yesterday (that was 6th April – the nearly-Armageddon day) just like millions of other people, I spent the day trying to earn a crust and thinking that although you can’t live on the state pension, it really can’t come soon enough if I’m to hold my little world together – but also yesterday, the BBC announced that the government has pushed pensions for my generation another half-year down the line.

I didn’t like to say anything though, as everyone, including me, was somewhat distracted by politicians in the US and the UK looking set to blow up the world.

Last week, after years of work by millions of citizens to defend our NHS, the government made a threat against all of us in its latest attempt to degrade and destroy NHS. They say they’ll defund doctor training if doctors strike.

I didn’t like to say anything though, as everyone, including me, was somewhat distracted by politicians in the US and the UK looking set to blow up the world.

This week, after millions of women and a few men have spent upwards of a decade being shunned, abused and ‘cancelled’ for saying you can’t change sex, a report came out proving that far from relieving distress, attempting to ‘transition’ young people causes a six-fold INCREASE in psychiatric problems. In short, as with men in sport and all the other aspects of trans ideology we’ve been pushing back on, it turns out the terfs were right. (Thanks to Kurt Mahlburg for this neat summary of their findings.)

I didn’t like to say anything though, as everyone, including me, was somewhat distracted by politicians in the US and the UK looking set to blow up the world.

Single issue campaigners

Ever since the battle to stop Israel’s genocide and our government’s support for it, it’s been really hard to talk about any other issues, and really hard to tolerate those who’ve kept on bashing on about their own soapboxes, while the rest of us tried to stop the carnage.

But it occurs to me this morning, Trump having agreed to delay Armageddon for two weeks, that we need those infuriating, obsessive, single-issue people because our democracy is so degraded that without full-time, non-stop noise from, for example, WASPIs, NHS defenders and sex-based rights campaigners, everything would be a whole lot further down the toilet than it is now.

Thanks everyone. We have a two-week pause in the US/UK part of world war three. ( Israel’s still destroying stuff.) Do you think everyone’s angry enough yet, that we might actually force our politicians to stop Israel, and stop Trump?

… and then we can get back to ordinary politics — and by that I don’t mean party politics, I mean the politics of humanity and community that was just beginning to emerge when the world went into full WWIII mode. But first, we’d have to remember where we’d got to.

You know, it might even be safe to vote Green now that all the evidence is in, and we’re equipped to say to them ‘no, trans women aren’t women. Sure, look after them – look after everyone – that’s socialism. But trans women aren’t women and forcing people to say they are is illegal, because it harms women and girls.’

If you’re wondering why I’m focusing on that, you’ll be one of the many people who didn’t notice that vast numbers of women have sworn they won’t vote for a party that doesn’t defend women’s rights.

 Over half the population of this country are women and, as you can see, that photo’s well over 100 years old and yet even now, politicians who think they’re pitching for ‘the women’s vote’ only ever pitch to a small group of middle class professionals, of either the conservative or the ‘progressive’ liberal feminist variety. Never on most women.

The Epstein Regime

It’s extraordinary and unforgivable that in two and a half years, hardly any career politicians have made any effort to stop Israel’s carnage; it’s extraordinary and unforgivable that the majority of the working class, unemployed or not, the underemployed and underpaid, the disabled, the seniors and the migrants in this country are all struggling to keep hold of a home and make ends meet; it’s extraordinary and unforgivable that despite over ten years of campaigning by ALL kinds of women, politicians still haven’t bothered to put their minds to sorting out the trans business for the good of both trans people and women and girls and, perhaps scariest of all, it’s outrageous that despite the UK being a relatively wealthy country, what was once the best national health service in the world is falling to bits, and being handed over piecemeal to scurrilous companies like Palantir…

…and all of this is down to our bought-and-paid for politicians failing to deal with and get past the Epstein legacy of power, privilege, corruption and blackmail.

Ordinary politics

Politics should be boring. Politics should be MPs working with civil servants to make sure the population is decently housed, educated and provided for, and making sure our methods and actions aren’t degrading our environment or harming anyone.

We need to make politics boring again, and to do that, we need to clean out most of the Westminster class.

We have two ‘community candidates’ on the rolls for the May elections in Hastings. Neither is running under any party political banner, and neither is a ‘career politician’. They are just women who think people need secure, genuinely affordable homes, a health service and a reasonable chance of avoiding World War Three. It might be useful to tactically vote for this or that party to get rid of the Epstein regime but, if you’re lucky enough to have any real community candidates where you are, look there first.

Deciding how to vote in May

Unless they’re crazy, right-wing party rejects (there are always some of those!) community-focused independents are probably your best bet. The way to be sure is to look at what they were doing six months ago, a year or more ago, before they had their minds on council elections. The two women I mention above have been rallying people in Hastings to confront problem landlords and solve housing issues all that time and more, so we can see they’re genuine community activists, not wannabee career politicians putting on an act. If they were in my ward, I’d vote for them. As it happens, they’re not, so I’ll probably vote Green.

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