Very normal reaction to bereavement. At varying levels of consciousness you are renegotiating your place: in the world, in your family, in your mind, in your life's trajectory. (Your grandmother's death puts you in a different context: you are still her granddaughter but she isn't here to anchor you in that role; and as the oldest generation in our lives passes on we too move up in age-and-stage.)
Expect it and ride it out.
As for UKIP, they aren't the same, at all, as the BNP. I am essentially in favour of a fairly unified Europe but my own experience with, and reading about, the economics of Europe makes me wholly sceptical about Europe in its proposed constitutional form: it's an unholy and undemocratic mess. Over 70% of the legislation - all of it proposed by and designed by unelected civil servants in the form of the Commission - is passed unread by the Parliament (according to the stuff I was taught in law school about European Law). I wouldn't vote UKIP but they aren't evil in the way the BNP is.
Anyway, no need to be depressed. A healthy democracy listens to its dissident voices and tries to remediate their valid complaints and redefine the invalid ones - there is a "yes" behind every "no".
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Date: June 16th, 2004 02:36 am (UTC)From:Expect it and ride it out.
As for UKIP, they aren't the same, at all, as the BNP. I am essentially in favour of a fairly unified Europe but my own experience with, and reading about, the economics of Europe makes me wholly sceptical about Europe in its proposed constitutional form: it's an unholy and undemocratic mess. Over 70% of the legislation - all of it proposed by and designed by unelected civil servants in the form of the Commission - is passed unread by the Parliament (according to the stuff I was taught in law school about European Law). I wouldn't vote UKIP but they aren't evil in the way the BNP is.
Anyway, no need to be depressed. A healthy democracy listens to its dissident voices and tries to remediate their valid complaints and redefine the invalid ones - there is a "yes" behind every "no".