WHAT HAS THE TORTOISE TAUGHT US?

This post is very much late in the day because I have been busy working trying to keep things afloat, the country included and I haven't had time to write about the porn star and the toad that killed a man who inhaled its venom or the sighting of a Nile crocodile in the rio Pisuerga. Anyway for now British politics....for the love of God! Spanish politics? Jesus wept! So how are the Dutch doing? Surely they are the sensible ones? The pragmatic go to people. Everytime BBC radio does a series on teenage pregnancy, drugs and so on they are often heard saying, 'now let's go over to the Netherlands and see how they do things'. Well, you may be aware that the Prime Minister there is centre right, well kind of, and a while back one of his members, Geert Wilders felt, like so many other politicians who are afraid of hard work, to set up his own party, some kind of offshoot party, you know, those parties that exist all over the place, let's call them all the, 'Beats Work Party'. Then there is the Party for Animals. This party seems to only be interested in animals, nothing else really. Also you have a party for the over 50s, called, guess what, the Over 50s Party. The woman from the Animal Party got a bit bored and said why not trees?' or something like that and left. The guy from the over 50s party left because thanks to some demented old guy who joined and the whole thing fell apart. If you think banjo player in Deliverance you might forgive me for calling the old guy a senile, inbred, Trump loving racist. ....and somehow these two have hooked up to form the Well What?Party. Then you have a party called Denk, or Think, which I think came about in response to your man Wilders. I'm not sure if it is a party, more of a movement of sorts. They don't have a leader at the moment because their leader was expelled for, well fuck knows, what do you want me to do, I'm not here to do your feckin' research! Anyway, in an attempt to be productive and join in with the 'better than work' ethos of most politicians, I have proposed a new party. The Party for Animals Over 50 Party. There are quite a few. Gorillas, elephants, me.... The reasoning for this party is because in the end you will get more sense out of a feckin' tortoise.