There is a shop here in Texas, and all over the USA, called ACE Hardware – it’s an old-fashioned hardware store franchise selling bits and pieces for DIY-ers. It has lots and lots of tools for sale. There are electrical tools, pneumatic tools and hand tools. Wall to wall tools.
I have only been in Texas for three years and I was surprised to see that London has taken such a strong liking to tools. The biggest tool in the ACE hardware store doesn’t even come close to the tool that they have just elected Mayor of London. How can an object of pure derision when I left the UK garner 1.032 million votes in an election? It’s a serious question – how can the people of London conveniently forget that they live in one of the most prosperous cities in the world and how can three fifths of the population not be bothered to vote?
Cor blimey luv a duck, 65 years ago London was at the forefront of the fight for freedom in Europe. That freedom included the right to a free and fair democracy. People died.
Bovvered – they can’t be arsed to get off their lazy holes and use a right that people in many other countries would die, and are dying, for. Use the vote or lose the right that so many died to give you. That’s how politics gets marginalised, infantilised and open to the advance of the extremist (not including the current mayor I hasten to add).
Well done Boris, I hope you represent your constituents with pride. I’m off to Ace to find a 14.4V rechargeable Boris – I’ve got a brain to remove before I get back to the UK.
It’s like that moment in “Dallas” when Pam Ewing finds Bobby Ewing in the shower and says, “I’ve had the most awful dream.” I hope that I wake up tomorrow and find that there has been a recount of Zimbabwean proportions.
Aisle 5: Borises, routers and barrel scrapers.
