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Another pretty good day of writing. I have set myself the unofficial goal of getting two first drafts finished by the end of this week (currently have about 3/4s of one script and 1/2 of another) and then get a first draft done each week so I have six scripts of some kind by the December 4th read through - and then about five weeks to make them not shit. It’s a big ask, but a month ago I thought it was going to be impossible to get this done. And whilst I have little to no idea what’s going to be in the other four episodes, I am getting the feel of the characters again and deadlines are a great leveller. I will vomit up the scripts and then hopefully refine them, but whilst what I’ve got is a bit of a splurge, I think there’s some good stuff in there already. I am, however, looking forward to a time when this writing nightmare is over. Sadly it will be replaced by another. Only the blessed release of death shall free me.
With another general election on the horizon I made the not unreasonable or very original observation that for the good of our future it would be very good not to have Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. On Twitter I suggested that only Peter Sutcliffe would be a worse choice (and I don’t think he is standing). I am not a fan of Corbyn’s and understand that people feel betrayed by the Lib Dems, BUT nothing could be worse than a Tory majority (apart from the Brexit party getting into government) and I think we just have to suck it up for now, try and weather this storm and then work out how the fuck we make our political system work, save the planet and unite the planet.
I thought, because of tactical voting in the EU elections that the Lib Dems were the only ones who stood a chance of defeating the Tories in my constituency (I have lived here for a short enough time that I have never voted in a general election here) and when I said I was voting for them I got tweets telling me that they would go into coalition with the Tories again (possible, but unlikely I’d say after what happened last time). When I countered that surely this was still better than letting the Tories have an extra seat, I got left wing people telling me that no, the Tories would be better than a Lib Dem. Because the Lib Dems would go into coalition. That is literally insane.
Then I bothered to check and found out that actually last time Labour came second and so told people that I would vote Labour instead. And then got some people telling me to do so would make me Anti-Semitic. Which again, I understand. This is a big part of why I have turned against the Labour Party.
BUT I still think that letting the Tories waltz through to a majority would be worse and that if people followed the plan of keeping them out that it’s very unlikely that any party would get a significant majority and so would temper each other somewhat.
But the point is that basically , due to the divisions that have been wrought we’re fucked aren’t we? The votes of a third of the country are going to decide our fate. And that fate will be another ten years of Tory rule. Hats off to the Tories though. How the fuck have they managed that after the last ten years?
I hope that by some miracle we can prevent it. And maybe common sense will finally kick in. But the last ten years haven’t been a great advert for the likelihood of that happening.
RHLSTP with Bobby Mair is now up on
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