Henry Scott Tuke, Cupid And The Sea Nymphs, 1898

And the Fascists just keep rolling on. Labour and the Tories have made such an disgusting mess of this country in their desparation to line thier own pockets and those of their cronies that people clearly believe that they need an alternative ... and they absolutely do, but for goodness sake the fascists is only going to be out of the frying pan into the fire! We have no actual democracy when the best we can do is to choose the least worst. There is no real dofference between Labour and Tories since the dark days of New Labour (a euphemism for Tory-light). If people really feel that Reformare the way forward then I think it is time to leave the UK!!

Robert Bliss, Three figures at the beach, undated

Henry Scott Tuke, Watching the sea, portrait of Charlie Mitchell, watercolour

Robert Bliss, Waterfront vertical, 1968

Henry Scott Tuke, Sunny hours in Jamaica, 1924

Robert Bliss, Boy in blue, 1961

Robert Bliss, After the swim, 1965

Robert Bliss, Study for martyrdom, 1963

Henry Scott Tuke, (English, 1858-1929) Orange Jersey, 1915 oil on canvas

There is no democracy anywhere. Not in teh US, the UK, nowhere in Europe nor anywhere else. We cannot have a democracy when the choices are between this party or that party. We have no real choice and are in fact choosing the "least worst". Even when that is done we haven't chosen the real leaders, the wealthy power borkers who decide the candidates by wielding their wealth. The Electoral College in the US, the 'First past the post' in the UK are systemic barriers to a democracy as well. There is no Democracy