Nine years and two weeks to the day and only this morning do I discover a wonderful phenomenon! A day that – all around the universe, wherever they go – people with a passion for humour celebrate by carrying a towel. To work, to the shops, on the bus, into school, out on treasure hunts – they carry around this sign of nomadic freedom and preparedness for unpredictability. There are parties and treasure hunts, and the only requirement and dress code is that you bring your trusty towel!
Why?
International Towel Day!
There has been a lot of Twitter and in the news about people changing allegiances – defecting from being ‘life-long Lib-Dem supporters’ to join the “Next Labour”. Personally though I’m struggling to see the rationale behind this behaviour – is doing so intended to make some profound political statement about the state of British politics and how the old system is so broken?
Regardless, I will certainly concede that, predominantly, those who are interested in, are able to financially support themselves into and are equipped to perform well in a career in politics tend to emerge from a narrow demographic of the population – the very white, male, public school types he speaks of: this BBC article defines quite accurately what it is about their upbringing and mindset that imparts them these traits.
So we have a centre-right leadership, and I’m OK with that! That been said, I still consider myself to generally be centre-left in my political preference and follow the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ feed on Twitter for any interesting Current Events commentary – and, oh! Given the current state of affairs (watch your bed-manners Samantha and Miriam – I hear you have freshly institutionalised competition!) this has lead to some interesting points of contention amongst the journalists and posters. And how rich such debates have proven to be!
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