The Season to be Hateful

Not only have the Christmas - or as we like to call it here at Sleaze Diary, Winterval - TV ads started appearing, but the seasonal decorations have started appearing in Crapchester town centre.  So far, they're all pretty low key - both privately administered parts of the shopping mall have their rival Christmas trees up, (in the past, they've also had rival light switching on events, sometimes scheduled on the same day), but the council controlled part has, so far, only had a few (still switched off) lights strung from the lampposts.  Will there be more?  And will they be as crap as last year's council decorations?  I mean, the Christmas tree they put up in the market place looked as if it had come out of someone's living room - it was so small and puny tat it was eventually kicked over by some thugs.  But it isn't just the municipal decorations that are going up: a house further down my street has already got decorations up in the front window.  In November, for God's sake.  I mean, we've only just got over Halloween and Guy Fawkes night and still have Black Friday - that celebration of crazed consumerism and naked greed - to come before we can even think about Christmas.

Still, Home Secretary Suella Braverman is doing her best to get us into the spirit of the season of goodwill to all men.  Fresh from declaring that the homeless shouldn't be allowed tents, she is now complaining that the Metropolitan Police are too soft when it comes to policing peaceful protests.  Apparently they are far tougher on extreme right wing marches than they are on those against the war in Iraq or calling for ceasefires in Gaza.  Presumably, she wants to see some good old fashioned policing applied, with peaceful protesters being given a bloody good kicking - but only after they've already been given a bloody good beating and charged by police horses.  Not that they ever did that to right wing marches.  That's the problem - they've always let Nazis march anywhere they like in London, in the most provocative manner possible, with their hatred inciting banners and chants.  But hey, such things don't concern Braverman, who is interested only in whipping up some good old race hatred as part of her scheme to become leader of the Tory party - and all in time for Christmas.