The last week since the last real life post has absolutely shot by, it started with having a meeting on Wednesday with a Doctor who examined me to confirm I could return to work.
So, I did! The following day in fact, working for 15 hours on a General Election Polling Station from 6.30AM till 10PM in the evening. I'd voted Green via postal voting the week before.
As me and Toni are massive political nerds, I then ran on adrenaline and beer till 7AM the following morning to catch the results and invited a few friends round for an election night party!
The drinking with Ben (Lib Dem), Christian (Tory scumbag) and Stevo (Labour) started off well, then went swiftly downhill when we saw what an awful mess the UK was getting itself into.
As much as it was fantastic to see the Scottish Nationalists being so successful with their far left politics, it was horrific to see England blindly voting in people who happily give a 43K tax cut to the 1% of richest and then take money off the poorest and most vulnerable in society, leading to food banks becoming commonplace in this 'developed' country.
As Nick Clegg defined when he resigned as Lib Dem leader, "the politics of fear had won", Labour had been equal in the polls but the Tories near the end said that the SNP would be in charge of Labour if they didn't have a majority in our system (which isn't true at all.)
The 'Little Englanders' fear of the Scottish then saw the Tories get voted in and with the system as bent as it is, (with only 2 parties who can ever win, in its' present form), they got in to wreak more havoc and cuts on public services and make their mates even richer.
Toni cried on Friday morning, I just despaired. I didn't even get to laugh at Nigel Farage not getting in.
It says a lot when the daft racist (together with the Greens and Lib Dems) is the best hope for changing this archaic system. UKIP had 3.8 million votes and got 1 MP, the Tories got an MP for every 40K votes they got, it's incredible and incredibly depressing!
Thankfully, we had some cheer on Friday evening as Emma came over from Sheffield and we all went out to see Jane and Damien in Town, as Jane was turning 40! It was a fine evening, of pretty much all left wing, liberal people trying to forget what we had just seen and dance/drink to forget.
We slept in on Saturday morning before heading out to a local café in Hulme, that trains people who have had tough upbringings to be chefs and serve great breakfasts which absorb alcohol!
Then on to Spotland Stadium in the afternoon, for Rochdale Vs Swinton with Stevo, I took the beers he left on Thursday night and he brought a couple too, so we had a couple each on a 20 minute train journey! So it continued, it was a fine day, apart from Swinton losing away again (deservedly so.)
After sobering up a fair bit and watching Friday Night Lights with Toni when I got in, the Sunday night sleep was blissful. After a lot of relaxing, Toni had her college essay to do and I started work on the Swinton programme.
A few of you might have seen this tragic event in the National sports News:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/may/10/keighley-cougars-danny-jones-tribute-coventryKeighley's first away game after their 29 year old Captain's death is versus Swinton, so we've gone to town on it, with a one off cover and three pages in tribute to him, it's taken A LOT of planning today as well but we're nearly done.
This type of effort and the fact that the game's supporters, who may never have seen him even play have donated over £100,000 to his widow and five month old twin daughters, says so much about the community in the game I love.
https://www.justgiving.com/dannyjones29Even if the country is going to shit, there are still good people around, this is tremendously comforting in times like these.
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