Category Archives: Politics

We blew it.

Posted on 11/11/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Leonard Cohen once prophesied ‘Democracy is coming, to the USA’. But despite its lyrical brilliance I highly doubt he would have pictured Donald Trump ever becoming America’s president when ‘Democracy’ was penned twenty-five years ago. I recognise there’s something macabre … Continue reading →

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We’ve lost the plot, haven’t we?

Posted on 27/06/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It’s a thought that I’ve been slowly coming around to for a while, and then the already tiresome, nauseating EU referendum intensified with tribal, polarised ‘debates’, a batshit crazy, cynical and malicious Orwellian photo-op and an American style political assassination. Then … Continue reading →

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So yeah, another fecking election.

Posted on 03/05/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

So, yeah, another election, and there’ll be another one, well technically it’ll be another referendum, shortly after this. We should be thankful for choice, as some countries don’t have votes or stable democracies. Even so, most of us seem to … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged AMS, BNP, Britain First, D’Hondt counting method, DRINK! FECK! GIRLS!, EU referendum dogshite, Eurozone is a naff word, Falling Down, Father Jack, First past the post - and it aint horseracing, Labour, Nicola Sturgeon's hates getting her photae taken, Peppa Pig, Proportional Representation, RISE, Solidarity, Tactical voting titheads, That would be an ecumenical matter, The SNP, Tommy Sheridan, Tories, We're all living in Paul Merson's village, William Foster | Leave a comment

The EU apathy

Posted on 04/03/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Why do so many people loathe politics? Let’s start with its forms of disingenuous repetition. You know that feeling you get when you see a bunch of junk mail lying at your front door every morning? David Cameron’s series of … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Adam Johnson is not related to Jimmy Saville, Apathy, Boris Johnson just won't go away, Brussels, David Cameron delivering junk mail, Do you give a fuck?, England, EU, Europe, Immigration, In or Out?, Making Plans For Nigel Farage?, Melanomas, Michael Gove, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Scottish Independence, The eye socket scene from 'A Serbian Film', UK, Wales, What if David Cameron was from Cameroon? | 3 Comments

Syria – how can you decide on a strategy when the question is unclear?

Posted on 15/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It was no surprise that a vote in the House of Commons for the UK to join the military action against Islamic State in Syria was passed. The more pertinent questions about military intervention have followed; whether this is how … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Airstrikes, Assad, Civil War, Do the right thing - but what is that?, Inaction or Action?, Iraq legacy, Islamic State, Labour, Politics, SNP, Syria, The right to abstain, Tories | Leave a comment