On Becoming Part Of The Problem

[alexsarll]

When people insist that there must be some job I'd actually enjoy, I will occasionally, eventually and grudgingly concede that I'd quite like to be a columnist. After all, they say, it's pretty much what you already do with the blog, isn't it? On days like this, I'm reminded why really, I wouldn't even want to be a columnist. Because then today I'd probably be obliged to write something pseudo-meaningful about a man who'd already made clear that he'd be quitting soon, announcing the date he'd be quitting. It's the worst-spoilered reveal since Blue Beetle died, and it's not as if June 27th is exactly a resonant date. There's probably been enough waffle about Blair's Legacy uploaded to the web today almost to rival the amount of new pornography, and maybe five of those ruminations will actually say anything worth saying, tops. And this hot on the heels of the Scottish/local and French elections, two other issues where even as an intellectual exercise I can scarcely bring myself to form an opinion. Seriously, there's more of my brain currently trying to work out why the young folk buy Maximo Park records than is running all three of those Major Issues together, and even on the Maximo issue it's not going much past 'W.T.F?'
The world is drowning in opinion pieces. And of course, even by saying that, I'm pouring on my cupful.
The compact under which I'm pledged to update regularly seeming in any case to have lapsed, I'm thinking I might withdraw a little, only post when something needs to be posted, rather than because I need to post.

Comments

[ex-stephmog743.livejournal.com]

Uh, I think the Welsh would disagree. Our 'local' (ie council) elections are next year. the Welsh Assembly is really quite a big political animal, with powers over the NHS and education, for example, that far exceed any English local body.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

If the Welsh would disagree then they should have held out until they could get their own Act of Union equivalent, rather than falling to conquest and incorporation centuries earlier...

I'm aware the assembly does have more powers than a local council - which of course raises its own version of the West Lothian Question whenever Welsh MPs vote on those matters as they affect England - but nobody could claim it's the equal of Scotland's.