Distant Drums

Well, they are not so distant now because the Politicians want us to vote for them, tomorrow! The drum roll has begun. Be warned because I am going down the 'They are all the same' route even though, deep, deep down in the rubber of my dap (plimsoll) I perhaps know that there are one or two who are in it for the right reasons. I dismiss you, if you are a Labour or Tory candidate because you are only standing for your own self aggrandisement. The line between what these two parties stand for has become so blurred that they are indistinguishable. I am talking from a Wales standpoint here! The true ripples of Socialism have started with Jeremy Corbyn but they are still just ripples. The UK Labour Party are a self hating lot and the self loathing comes from knowing that they sold out under Tony Blair. It was then that the line became blurred between the Eton old boys and the Reds of the Home Counties. In Wales, Labour are the Conservatives of England because they have been in power so long. You only have to scroll back through the archive of the Shark Fisherman of Wales to understand the contempt that I hold these people in. I hold most loathing for those who have turned their coats yer Alun Davies and yer Leighton Andrews. I know that I have crossed the great political divide myself from Plaid to Green but with justifiable reasons (see LORD Dafydd Elis Thomas) but Davies went from Plaid to Labour and Andrews went from LibDem to Labour, not because they had a conversion on the road to Denbigh but because they realised that they had a better chance of getting elected. EGO folks! EGO, you might have heard of it. Freud had a lot to say about it. If you are in your mid to late thirties onwards you realise how damaging the promotion of the self can be. Other people are left behind as you jump from one bandwagon to another. In writing this post I really am having difficulty thinking about politicians who (in my opinion) have been in it for the right reasons. Gwynfor Evans, the first elected MP for Plaid Cymru perhaps and Caroline Lucas of the present day Greens. The men and women of the people. If you are in the Green Party, you cannot be doing it for your own political advancement because Mother Earth doesn't have that long to wait.  So folks get your daps on and get down tut Polling Station for perhaps one last try and if all the usual suspects get in next time....then we can say ENOUGH to this kind of Democracy. 



UPDATE: LEANNE WOOD IS A WOMAN OF THE PEOPLE AND IS IN IT FOR THE RIGHT REASONS. CONGRATULATIONS TO HER ON HER HISTORIC VICTORY IN THE RHONDDA