According to my friend at the bookmakers if you had put 10 shillings (Look it up) on Trump and Brexit to turn out as they did you would now be worth almost as much as an episode of the new Top Gear. Sadly I didn’t, both happened and so far nothing much seems to have changed, a bit like the Millenium when all the computers were going to grind to a halt and bring about the end of civilisation. Except it never happened, did it?
So grasping the nettle that actually we can deal with the different and survive, let’s take another, even bigger leap into the dark.
Let’s abolish Christmas. Yes, you heard right folks, let’s just not do it. Whoa, Lady K gets radical! A bit like building a wall along the Mexican border, no-one thinks it is possible but bear with me, as they say at call centres just before you hang up. I suspect that about 50% of the population are already thinking Yes! on this and that would be the women of the Yule-tide celebrating world who are on the edge of nervous collapse from the beginning of October, Boxing Day being the date when they finally tip over it. No man worth his salt, on the other hand, gives the whole business much of a thought until December 23rd when he realises that yet again it is going to fall on the 25th and therefore we won’t be asking for their opinions. They do not get a vote.
There could be exceptions, perhaps in homes with children under 10, but even there lets limit it to a stocking, a carrot for Rudolph and being allowed to eat After Eights for breakfast. Possibly a bit of playing with wrapping paper for toddlers.
If that sounds a step too far perhaps a good compromise would be to have it every four years, like the Olympics or the US presidential elections. You certainly wouldn’t want either of those to be an annual event would you? Let’s just get off the whole crazy bandwagon and reclaim 2 months of our lives. We can fling wide the doors of our Festive madness and walk free. We could instead adopt the latest trend for the Norwegian thing called hygge – staying in with cashmere socks, candles and a box set – throw in a bottle of Baileys and what’s not to like?
So that’s a firm No to tyranny and stop fretting about the Donald. It’s not as if the sane people have made such a good job of running the world is it?