Jesus Lives!

It’s a scary sight as it stands: a page and a half of mug shots of our prospective county councillors gurning into the camera in an attempt to appear sincere, trustworthy and in some cases indeed, sane! They’re all in the Ripon Gazette today: St Bernard, ‘Earringed’ Sid Hawke, ‘ZzzzzStockdale.
‘Mad’ Mackintosh is there and local crooner Andrew ‘Andy’ Williams manages to look at once oleaginous and psychopathic. Last and undoubtedly least comes Althea (No profile or picture supplied) Farmer who seems to have thrown in the blood reddened Labour towel before the first vote has been cast.
More worrying than the cirque communale is our unseemly haste to don the costumes of Tin Man, Scarecrow et al and skip down the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City of American political absurdity. When did religious fanaticism slink across the pond and worm its way into European politics?
Half a dozen candidates for European parliamentary election are hanging from the -Christian Party “Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship” – cross. Are there not enough fairy stories in politics already without introducing this nonsense into the arena? Never forget that their ‘Lord’ cast the money lenders from the temple, so let us hope we never have to rely on the Christian Party for a sound fiscal policy; we could find ourselves casting a fond look back at the ‘Broon’ years.
Still, now the temple is clear of money lenders there’ll be plenty of room for ‘Dave’s’ Parking Solution #1 – the lord works in mysterious ways!