Three days without listening to the news. You should try it!

 I've been in Minehead for the weekend, at the House of Fun big weekender. I am absolutely shattered and need a good nights sleep. Whilst my liver is less than happy with me, my brain is more than happy with a break from the stress of everyday life and especially the news. Normally, I watch it every day and listen to Radio London with regular news updates. I didn't at all for the whole weekend. When we got home at around 4pm today, I went to the gym. When I got back, I put on the TV and I realised that it is so unremittingly depressing at the moment, that I really don't have the inclination to watch it. I actually feel fsr better and less stressed not having the constant barage of bile and stupidity that Global, National and even local politics has become. It's not that I don't care but it seems to me that the whole world is falling into the clutches of moronic, narcessistic egomaniacs, who seem to offer nothing but political willy waving on one hand or a bland dearth of solutions and ideas on the other hand, with uncharismatic,dullness intent on not upsetting their rich backers. I am, by nature an optimist, but I am also a realist and as we have no politicians of note in the UK who seem to offer anything but either moronic populism or capitulaion to big business and the markets, there is nothing to be optimistic about. The sad thing is that I think that the major parties actually actively seek to dissuade anyone with a modicum of intelligence, passion and desire to put things right from participating. We have not got where we are overnight. This mess has been 45 years in the making, from the day Margaret Thatcher was elected. Thatcher destroyed the post war consensus that Great Britain was governed to improve the lives of ordinary people. She followed the right wing economic guru Milton Freidman, who believed that free markets and rampant capitalism was the answer to everything. That is why our railways, energy markets and water companies rip us all off. There is no regulation, so dodgy companies, almost always foreign owned rip us all off continually. Everything is more expensive in the UK than the rest of Europe apart from Healthcare and if Thatchers heirs (Badenoch and Reform) have their way, the NHS will follow British Rail etc into private hands and we'll end up being robbed blind for crap service. I just hope I am dead by the time they get their way. And I hope my kids generation don't fall for this crap in the way my one did