JOURNEY'S END

Chilcot - a cold wind wraps Great Britain’s heart
Her archetypal refuge - cold as death.
He broke the last taboo for ego’s gain
In self-aggrandisement stole other’s breath.

And such is our disgrace, none barred his way
Save one whose easy Honour was upheld.
The rest in ignominy bowed his will
Outside: a million, impotent, repelled.

No darker hour this nation ever faced
Invaded by deceit and structured lie.
At unmet need all goodness from him fled;
Where moral vacuum lives, the righteous die.

In his defence he knew we must attack.
He said: “Doubt me, but don’t doubt my belief”.
And so we joined America in war
Once more, to Arab lands, we would bring grief.

Lord Chilcot has a way with stable doors:
One to be closed, indeed, seen to be so.
When he has done, no stone will be unturned
The truth ground wondrous small, and all on show.

But shall we be the wiser for that ‘turn’?
Such fine grained truth can be a lot like sand.
Time-jaded minds may reach - but poorly grasp
As all his fell misdeeds slip through our hands.

Then, as we watch him strut in Global state
In self-deluded opulence quite chuffed
We shall attend to his unending war
And know that – verily – we have been stuffed.

IS IT NICK WOT FIXED IT?

Let's not mess about pretending Nick just wants do bring the greatest good for the greatest number - Westminster has never been the place for that! No, he wants to be 'Topp' aka Prime Minister. But half his troops have left the field and will not return while their leader is a proven backslider. So Nick is stuck between a cockup and a lardface.

I have said consistently that Westminster is an integrity-free zone. Those departed LibDems who presumably have a clear concept of integrity, had nevertheless failed to realise that the Westminster Ethos is alien to such a 'flight of fancy'. If disaffected LibDems have cerebral capacity allied to their scruples, this rude awakening might just be the start of a move to SPOILPARTYGAMES.

So my suggestion to all you LibDems who are taking stock is: "The Westminster Ethos will only ever deliver iniquity. We need to source candidates, for our MPs, locally (a view voiced eloquently by A N Wilson on 'Any Questions') as a first step to the dismemberment of Westminster 'governance' and its feudal self-serving disgrace.

Parties demand first allegiance. Parties dilute representative government. Dig out a reluctant, competent, decent individual from your area at the next election, and SELL THE IDEA TO THE CONSTITUENTS. No lies, no gimmicks, no balloons - JUST INTEGRITY IN REPRESENTATION.

Nick - in his hour of neediness - might just have fixed it for YOU!

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

The seven tenets of civilisation - our way - are:

CHILDCARE, SCHOOL, SEX, COMMERCE, GROWTH, ARMS, WAR.

No. 8 - DEATH - is prohibited, for all but heroes.

WHAT WOULD NATURE DO?

LITTLE BOXES LITTLE BOXES

LEARNING is inexorable (as inexorable as the Top Gear Lads looking at short skirts - and the odd inverted burka - when they should be watching the road.)

EDUCATION is a mixed blessing. You can't get chocolate out of a machine where the chocolate bay is empty. Best to go for a sandwich - money well spent.

SCHOOL was instituted with the Henry Ford approach - the idea was to make ticky-tacky: all just the same. Unfortunately dumb politicians still can't see that a partition occurs: while the 'ticky' tick obediently to Mammon's rhythm, the 'tacky' get stuck, go nowhere, and ultimately succumb to gravity in a smear of decline.

How poignant (nay droll) that my antisocial personality SAVED ME FROM INSTITUTIONALISATION! They could not get me into a little box - I refused to be part of 'all the same'.

I suspect I have failed more exams than I have passed. I venture that constitutes a telling comment but more on education's malfunction than on mine.

I fought Education and Education lost.

POOR AFRICA

Messiah Tony failed here and is now saving the Middle East from a clash of extremist belief; saviour McCavity failed here, and has now popped up to save Africa, with Broadband. When 'Certainty Dave' fails, what might his psychological tipple be? A 'Declaration of Absolute Global Right and Wrong' perhaps? He's getting in some practice, with Olympian interference! I gather Dave was gifted his certainty from his magistrate Mother - she is quoted as 'teaching him right and wrong'. Did she also teach him not to muddle them up? It's always the parents - isn't it! (:o)

SCHOOL IS FOR FISH

I have long considered school as the single most powerful INSTITUTIONALISING (development arresting) feature of 'civilisation' as currently configured (aka Western).

I venture to assert that - all other things equal - maturity (both individual and societal) is inversely proportional to the emphasis on schooling. I further assert this is exacerbated by schooling of the VERY YOUNG. Let's leave schooling to aquatic life-forms, and look for an optimum developmental approach for new homSaps, that leads each individual to maximise their life-potential.

However, as this would bring an end to Westminster, party politics, barking leaders and a seat at the Globopoly table, there is no future in it.

WE ARE LEADING THE WORLD

Alan Duncan's repeated words: "We are leading the world", on The Daily Politics, refer to aid.

How telling - they translate as "Britain is still playing GLOBOPOLY in style" (with tax-money, for the satisfaction of a few megalomaniac politicians).

At the Globopoly board, GDP, nukes held, aid sprayed, and military adventures, give you an advantage in THE GAME. Meanwhile our nation is rotting at the core - both physically and psychologically.

PERVERSITY R US.