10/06/2017
Today’s prompt: A new thing to try
Starting to work towards a completely new future that I’m not prepared for.
Okay, let’s start small. I realise these posts are just a way to distract myself.
I want to travel. I don’t travel. I have never been anywhere except two family holidays which don’t count because I was young.
I wrote a couple of posts before about how important it is to explore the city you’re in, how important it is to build up the friendships you have in those places. Ironically, I didn’t follow those words after that.
But now I can, and I will. I’ll start by fully enjoying London, and then hopefully, unless the political climate worsens, everywhere else in Europe (except France, fuck France). Either with willing friends or by myself. I want to go, just go, I want long weekends in Austria, Sweden, Germany. I’ll even go to Morocco. I just want to get out of this country for a while, this city. I want to get away from all the toxicity around me; I don’t want a fancy hotel and an expensive trip. I just need a flight and somewhere to sleep.
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Tag: europe
Brexit
So… we’re out of the EU.
Time for me to pack up and move to Canada, because all I’m getting from this country is a vibe of whiteness and “WE’RE TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY”. I bet we’ll have a Britain First government in the next election.
I always talk about how everybody should vote or avoid complaining about the outcome, and I’ve voted ever since I’ve been old enough to, but I didn’t vote this time because I couldn’t. I would feel terrible, because I really didn’t want us to leave [despite my jokes about there being too many flats for too many immigrants], but then I saw how many more people voted leave and I was appalled. I genuinely thought I could trust the common sense of the British public to vote remain, but it seems like too many people are afraid of immigration and are fragile in their sense of national identity. That or they’re wealthy enough to take the risk. Or they’re dying so it doesn’t matter to them.
David Cameron has left, and whilst he is so affectionately referred to as a ‘bellend’ by so many people, are we really better off with Boris as our prime minister? Reminder: Boris has done nothing good for London except the bikes. Pretty much every young person wanted to remain – aka the only people who the brexit will really affect.
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