What a bloody miserable result. Worse than I could have imagined it. It’s really truly devastating. Brexit now a certainty. Austerity, Tory cruelty to the poorest and weakest. Rising nationalism. Destroying institutions. Institutionalising lying. It’s unbearable to see this tide sweep across the world. What we had was imperfect, but it was not the brutishness rising everywhere like sewage bubbling up between cracks in the ground beneath us.
I don’t know what lies ahead – not just in the UK, which surely will not stay the UK very long, unless using brute force to crush dissent also becomes acceptable. A step was taken towards it in the Crimea and in China, and it is only a matter of time before it sweeps up the sanctimonious guardians of post-Cold War morality. Filth, filth, filth.
Personal bad news from London also: someone close who is very ill, and someeone else close who has reaped (again) the bitter harvest of marriage to a dishonest person.