downfall

Who says immigrants get a raw deal? They are now going to be allowed to join that most exclusive of clubs, the BNP. Wonder if they'll be - ahem - 'swamped' with applications. This isn't the BNP's choice, of course, they aren't keen on it at all; and you have to admire the perversity of their attitude. Whereas all the other parties are blandly going out of their way to appeal to the widest possible demographic, they are actively telling people to bugger off, or trying to. Which seems doubly perverse, if their target market of 'indigenous whites' really is becoming a minority like they say it is.

Their spokesman on Jeremy Vine's show sounded a bit shaken to hear that some foreigners are white. It doesn't bode well for Question Time.

Now I have a week off. It's only Sunday, and already I have achieved much. For instance, I have achieved a haircut. That was in Brentwood. There was nobody in the shop, apart from three unoccupied barbers, pacing restlessly like caged tigers. In a sense this was encouraging - no need to wait. In actuality it was a bit unnerving, all that pent up energy; I felt that they might very well turn on me. In the event, one of them cut my hair.

I used to go to the place in Ingrave, which apparently has now been abandoned. It was called 'Hairport', a pun which caused some confusion when the very Essex, h-dropping woman who ran the joint answered the phone. 'Airport!' she'd shriek, with such loudness that she might very well have been shouting over the noise of planes taking off. You wonder if this was their downfall.