Things to argue about!

When there are so many more important things to sort out, why is May banging on about bringing back fox hunting? She has stated her support for getting rid of the ban but I wonder if she has ever been fox hunting herself. She has made great play of being a humble vicar's daughter. Does a vicar's stipend run to maintaining a horse for his daughter to go and join the hunt? They cost quite a lot money.

There is a bit of me that wonders if this is a ploy to take our minds off education and health cuts. Mind you, expressing your support for such hobbies does not exactly enhance her desired image as champion of the working class. Here is a link to Polly Toynbee explaining why we should not believe that the tories have become champions of workers' rights.  And, if that is not enough, here is Suzanne Moore on the same subject.

I remain amazed when I hear people on the news, in those "let's talk to Joe Bloggs on the street" sections, saying how they trust Theresa May. Have they not noticed how many changes of mind she has had? Or do they just blindly believe her when she says they can trust her? She seems like a nice woman, they say. A nice woman with a big bus with her name on it in big letters, contributing to making this election almost presidential in style!

Meanwhile, over in Luxembourg the European Court of Justice is considering the case of a British-Spanish citizen who has been denied the right to have her Algerian husband come and join her in the UK.

"She had come to the UK exercising her rights under the European treaty on freedom of movement. She settled in the country, acquired permanent residence and then applied and acquired British citizenship. However, she also retained her Spanish citizenship, which she believed enabled her to have her husband, Toufik Lounes, join her.

He applied for a residence card using her automatic right to bring a family member into the country. The Home Office refused his application on the grounds that she could not rely on her EU freedom of movement rights, which include the right to bring in a family member, as she was a British national as well as an EU national."

So acquiring dual nationality, which many have done thinking that it protected them in al sorts of ways, has reduced her rights rather than increased them.

How complicated life has become!

If the European Court if Justice rules jn favour of this woman, will it fire up the Brexiteers who object to Europe "telling us what to do in our own country?

Another argument about rights and justice is apparently going on behind the scenes at the BBC. It seems that there is an unwritten rule that Radio 4's Today programme should be hosted by a mixed team of presenters. And yet a decision has seemingly been made that on the day after the election the programme will be presented by Nick Robinson and John Humphreys, pushing Sarah Montague aside. She is said to have made complaints about sexism. Nick Robinson, so the story goes, wants to present the programme because he was taken off the post-referendum programme and replaced by John Humphreys, who had a bit of a strop about not being assigned the job in the first place. And they want John Humphreys, now 73, on the programme as this may well be the last post-election programme he does.

Well! What a lot of fuss and bother! I shall go back to watching the rain fall outside the window!