'Righty-tighty, Lefty-loosey'!

Saturday 3rd June 2017 11:27 am

Thanks, Colin Hill, for prompting this one in me!

I'm not that politically driven but it just jumped out at me, given the forthcoming election.

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'Righty-tighty, Lefty-loosey'
- mnemonic for screwing up nuts, bolts and screws, you see?
Also applied to political policy.
Here, let me try to explain.

‘Righty-tighty’ acts all ‘high and mighty’.
Cutting our services; “Don’t give a shite-y”!
And all in the name of ongoing austerity.
- Tories are tight with the ‘tin’!

‘Lefty-loosey’, a ‘common-man's fantasy!
Promising funding: a taxing and spending spree!
Bugger the consequence, whatever it may be.
- Labour thinks, that’s how to win.

Turn right or turn left? Well, it’s all such a mystery.
None of them’s really got such a good history.
Traditionally they just sit back; take the ‘piss' ( to me !).
Once we have voted them in!

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Comments

<Deleted User> (13762)

Sun 4th Jun 2017 08:32

I'm honoured John. I only know this little saying because my teenage boy once uttered it as I struggled to remove the nuts on a car wheel after a puncture. His sarcastic comment was his way of telling me that I was tightening them instead of loosening them. And there was me blaming the substandard and poorly manufactured wheel brace. I won't forget Righty-tighty, Lefty-loosey in a hurry!

C?L

M.C. Newberry

Sat 3rd Jun 2017 19:21

We are certainly seeing politics in a state of flux -maybe
a healthy sign when one considers the usual fixed state
of affairs. People now are able to use greatly increased
levels of information plus visual/verbal performances to
form opinions and come to a decision in how they vote - again no bad thing.
Farron is faced with the uphill task of regaining support
for his party after their wipe-out at the polls, and
their eagerness to stay under the control and influence
of the EU may - or may not - help any progress in that
direction. His constant carping about a hard Brexit
is his only weapon and we'll have to see if it convinces
any political "not sures" or fainthearts on election day.

Harry O'Neill

Sat 3rd Jun 2017 15:47

This minds me of the traditional - broadly right or leftish- electoral stance of the voters in Britain`s `first past the post`voting system.

It seems that however much the swingers `go over` it seems that they always like to have a general idea of the direction they are travelling in.

We are faced with a `tough` negotiator (who was a `remainer`) and an opponent who has lost the full support of his parliamentary colleagues...both of whom have to be fully supported because of the system.

Both parties are internally split themselves and the problem about `just sitting back`at the present is that: to fulfill the will of the fifty - two per cent (which the forty - eight percent did not want) is - given the fact that the right and left voters are split among themselves anyway -
going to be an impossibility (that the referendum was a record turn-out applies to both sides of the vote).

A problem (given all the splits) could be the politically - inspired obfuscation of the negotiations as they proceed.

My own guess is that Farron`s wish for the deal to be put
to a second referendum (although not very popular at the moment) will win the day in the end.

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