No man is a traffic island

 

Well, this has been a boring election campaign with the leaders assiduously avoiding any real voters in case they might get heckled and lose it like Gordon Brown.  Just a series of staged photo ops.  Look, Rishi is in a factory again.  Honestly, it's getting to the point where I'm afraid to put on my high viz at work in case Rishi or Keir pops out and makes a speech.  Imagine being forced by your boss to listen that nonsense... Talk about a captive audience.

Say what you like about John Major but he got his soap box out and went about shopping centres ... well, I suppose they're all half empty or closed now so Rishi has to hang out in warehouses, factories and robot distribution centres as that's where the jobs are now... I wonder what the robots think about his STEM obsessions and if he's canvassing them?  Oh well, at least when he calls up all the young men for WWIII National Service we won't have to send the women to work in the factories... Funny how they can make robots to pack one's shopping but not do one's cleaning...

Further from the action I have been somewhat entertained by Johnny Mercer's campaign videos.  He's as doomed as the dodo but it's kind of amusing to watch him pounding the streets with his long suffering wife.  Due to boundary changes a larger than usual number of sitting MPs are doomed to electoral oblivion - including Jeremy Hunt who was on the news last night trying to look chipper.  Theresa May left a message on a videophone.  It would be sweet being left a message by a former Tory Prime Minister if there weren't so many of them... One day everyone will be a Tory Prime Minister for 15 minutes...

My abiding memory of the Brexit campaign was seeing an old man sitting on a Croydon roundabout in the rain displaying a cardboard sign saying "Freedom Now!".  No man is a traffic island ... but some of them stand on them...