• Happy Birthday to me….kinda..

So I just turned 46 36 minutes ago. I should be celebrating but I’m not..I’m drowning my sorrows in a rather wonderful Russian Vodka. We are living through a dark time which will I’m sure be looked back on with shame and embarassment… As an Englishman I along with my fellow country folk have just been through one of the most turbulent times in our recent history, and to many of my English friends I will be seen as being on the wrong side of it, which I’m sure has caused curiosity and consternation among some of them. You see we just voted to leave the EU and I voted in favour of leaving.

I have detailed my reasons in a previous article and I wont repeat here, suffice it to say they are pretty much unrelated to the reasons the media will give for others who voted like me. But it’s left me with a strange feeling of being an outsider and yet understanding that my reasons are somewhat niche,against the grain and not popular in mainstream UK culture. However my conscience is such that I have to obey it, and I hope that my friends will understand my reasons over time and realise that I have not lost my mind, but that in actually fact I am caring about other countries people and that I am trying to steer us away from a much,much larger problem….

But for now I will drink this Vodka and watch as some people I really care about speak about people who voted like me as intolerant extremists.. Which I most certainly am not.

So Happy Birthday Al….