Today is the day we seal our fate, celebrate our new insular island mentality, and revel in our own mean spirited selfishness.
It follows on exactly seven days since the Halton Bus Company collapsed. The Halton Bus Company could trace it’s history back to 1909, and now it has closed. No more buses for a town of over 61,000 people. This is to be all our futures. Truly the neo-liberal destruction of our quality of life continues apace as our world heats up around us and we need public transport more than ever.
To add insult to injury the crime minister and his elitist chums are favouring the south east over the north of England when it comes to access to extra funds for local government.
It seems we are going back to the past, two hundred years to the oppression of the 1820s.
On a lighter note, I shall be reading at 2000 Trees Festival this summer. I am putting together the poetry for this splendid festival and am already looking forward to it.
Here’s Deaf Havanna, a band I have seen many times at Trees.
Until next time.