mp3: Nina Simone – Feeling Good
As the late and great Sam Cooke so famously sang, ‘it’s been a long time coming’……and today is the day the UK will finally be able to vote out the Tories who have done so much damage these past 14 years.
I know that the incoming government hasn’t promised nearly enough in terms of policies and proposals to really tackle all the social and economic injustices faced by so many millions of people across the country, but it will be an improvement. Baby steps and all the rest of it.
Like many others, I expect to be up all night watching the results roll in. I expect to be a smiling a lot.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Am only cautiously optimistic, because I remember 92, and I also think people who fully intend to vote blue are too embarrassed to say so in polls because the Tories have become a toxic brand with which to be overtly associated. But I hope to be smiling a lot too.
“Like many others, I expect to be up all night watching the results roll in. I expect to be a smiling a lot.”
I wonder what that’s like. It’s Independence Day here in the US, on what might be the last day we get to celebrate democracy. We are literally on the verge of putting a violent, convicted criminal in the White House. The only song that comes to mind by the great Sam Cooke is ‘Sad Mood.’
Fingers (and everything else) crossed
Middle Aged man