"UK politics is turning really, truly fucking weird"

[LeftishBrit]

3. Well, I think first of all, you must remember that poster doesn't actually think the UK should exist

as such; i.e. he thinks Scotland should be independent.

A defensible view - 45% of Scots supported it in the Referendum - but would obviously affect one's overall view of UK politics.

UK politics IS weird at the moment: the Tories are at each others' throats, between the other Referendum - on EU membership - and Osborne having just achieved the almost impossible feat of being too vicious toward disabled people even by the standards of other people in the Tory party. (I just said on another forum - imagine that someone comes up with something so mean-spirited that Michele Bachmann and Paul Ryan protest against their being too Right-wing; that's close to what's been happening today). Plus the usual infighting among Labour politicians!

And our media has always been bad. But I don't think it's got worse.

As regards Trump winning: well, all things are possible, but I'd be prepared to bet some money against it, and I'm not usually an optimist.