All the same, I should probably keep an eye out for additional criticism from respectable sources, to see if there’s anything behind the article’s allegation that the Tories weakened environmental standards and thus cause a lot of illness and suffering to the population.

Meanwhile, the Tories, supposédly the party of the family, hypocritically and happily promote their family & marriage breakup policies, and medical & academic fuck up policies, just because a parent or an expert dares to be a foreigner. This stark racism always disgusts me, as does Labour’s frequent parroting of such nationalist bigotry. It’s immoral, it’s pandering to cowards, and it’s economically insane.

Despite being annoyed (can you tell?), despite the launch of various parties’ campaigns, I’m less interested in the election than I was last week.

While I’m here, I’ll mention that I expect the Tories to win this election, although that’s absolutely not certain. Johnson has manoeuvred the nasty party to squash the fascists to their right, and indeed the brexit party has already promised to half run away. I would love to be wrong, and am hopeful that I am, but this election is undoubtedly Johnson’s to lose.