Well my new year's resolution was to write my Captain Haddock column on a monthly basis instead of sporadically, outlining what's going on in the world of politics and sport as normal. However, 'Gin January' got me so here we are near the end of February!
The world of politics, now we have President Trump has gone absolutely bonkers!! I'm standing with Sweden - fake news! Even UK politics doesn't get any better, with control freak Theresa May in charge, and the right wing of the Labour Party continuously trying to undermine Labour at every opportunity. Even though I do believe that Jeremy has shot himself in the foot over Brexit, which is truly the politics of the mad house, whatever the majority of fellow Grimbarians think. I heard that Ukip MEP on the radio the other day, and he was arguing for our fishing industry to come back (didn't like him and it's not just that he's a Yorkie but that certainly doesn't help) and he was demanding a 200 mile limit around the UK - that should take us nearly to Paris!! Once the fishing expertise has gone it'll never come back, there's not enough salty old sea dogs like myself left, and renewables is the future. While I'm writing about Ukip, they have now replaced their Oswald Moseley style fascist leader Nigel Farage with a complete plank! A Walter Mitty character who doesn't seem to understand what facts are - he claimed to have a PhD which turned out to be utter rubbish, and that he played football for Tranmere Rovers which he never did, never mind his Hillsborough lies. Thankfully the good people of Stoke rejected his politics of fascism and hate, but it's a shame the people of Copeland didn't have more sense.
Anyway, football seems to be going the same way as politics with unpredictable results - Grimsby losing 5 - nil at Crewe, a team that had been completely hopeless until they played us, followed by a draw on a ploughed field somewhere in South Wales, on to one of the funniest games I've seen for a long time. However, more importantly an excellent performance from players both new and old culminating in a good 3 - nil victory, never mind the antics of fatty Evans!! We were again brought back down to earth with a bump at Morecambe but at least the scoreline was only 1 - 0. We appear to have swapped our early season form - good away and poor at home, to good at home and poor away. We are clearly at the beginning of the Marcus Bignot revolution.
A big well done to Cleethorpes Town in reaching the semi-final of the FA Vase, and our carrot crunching neighbours from the other side of the wolds making the quarter-finals of the FA Cup - however, I expect Arsenal will put an end to their progress.
UTM,
Captain Haddock
PS - Jeremy Kyle is a twat.
