“It’s Been A Long Time…”
Posted by Jim Pedley on April 8, 2010
I just hadn’t realised that I had not done any blogging since August, last year! It’s this Ancestry caper. As I have already explained , a relative – who I had no idea existed at the time – wrote to me with a family query. That’s what started it all, and I seem to have been probing away at all sorts of ancient documents in a sweat-inciting effort to find out who and what I am, and where my genes may have originated…
And now, on top of all this comes a General Election to contend with!
Well, I’ll do my best. But think my blogs are going to be – for a while – much like they were when I first started, way back in 2007: just concoctions of mashed potatoes, with a few bits and pieces thrown in to give them some kind of palatability.
Family History is arduous enough, (it’s a good thing I’m intensely interested in the subject!), but when you add the fact that I now, for a few weeks, have to contend with the politics of the day as well, in order to sort out which party is deserving of my precious vote, it’s going to get a bit much.
But I’ll try…
As regards the coming election, Gordon Brown and David Cameron have been pecking away at each other for weeks, knowing that the political jousting was due to start on the sixth of May. Now that the campaign has started in earnest, they are both up on their feet taking bites out of each other, the House of Commons echoing to the two men’s gibes and insults.
And adding to the Commons commotion, of course, come the strident tones of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, who is busy taking bites out of whichever of his opponents offer the tastiest morsel of the moment. Boy O’ Boy, the coming battle for my vote is going to develop into some confrontation.
Well, there’ll be a month or so of these protagonists sallying forth to do battle on Britain’s streets and doorsteps – not to mention the telephone and the Internet! But, I’ll tell you this: every one of them is going to have to fight very, very, hard for my vote – because I ain’t giving it up all that easy; not when I consider that all of Great Britain’s political parties have, in the past, made it very easy for this country’s greedy financial institutions to join with the rest of the world’s greedy financial institutions to produce what they call – The Credit Crunch.
Even now, I still can’t get my head around government strategy that dictated that it had to offer help to the very institutions that had caused the financial world to collapse. And then let the chief executives of those same institutions - resigning to spend more time with their families – walk away with million pound bonuses…!
Maybe one day, I’ll catch on…
