So it's that weird time of life when I get to take my polling card to the local army reserve centre (I KNOW! I'm used to schools!) and vote in the Euro elections.
The Brexit Party and UKIP, are both fielding candidates in the Euro elections on a Brexit ticket - this means if any of their candidates win, they'll basically be working within the political institutions of the EU with the express purpose of getting Britain out of the E.U.
This kind of reminds me of the Ron Swanson approach to working for government: working within 'the beast' and doing as little as possible in an attempt to bring the whole thing crashing down from within.
OK it's not quite the same, as the Brexit and UKIP manfifestos just want the UK to leave the EU rather than bring the EU itself crashing down, but it's the closest thing I've ever seen in British politics where people are likely to vote en-mass for the 'Ron Swanson' approach to government.
Which was fine when it was just fiction, it's not so fine now it could be fact. NB the Brexit Party don't even have a manifesto of what we should do post leaving the EU - so a vote for them means your voting to allow them to do whatever they like with impunity, which could mean just fucking off and letting someone else sort out the mess, like Farage did at the end of 2016, until now.
I voted Green of course, they're the only really ethical-global party, decades ahead of the others in terms of their priorities.
And managed to get this arty photo of my shadow outside the polling station, not because I was trying to be arty, I just took it while walking!
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