My guides have given me leave to start this again.
Today's card is the Page of Cups.
Clarence: This is usually associated with learning but here it represents contrition and acceptance of one's fate - the cup is held out to request filling up for the Page's own benefit, rather than acting as a steward to his master. What goes into the cup only today will tell, but with Gordon Brown's cabinet in a mess (for him Death, reversed suggests a dangerous period, one which may ultimately be fatal but one, Clarence says, which will see things utterly collapse elsewhere as well - if he goes down, so does Westminster) and Cameron repaying £350,000 in capital gains tax (for him, The Star reversed - it made a huge impact on the Tories' poll ratings, and Cambo can find no warmth or joy in Brown's own debacle), the Page represents our political class waiting for the public's verdict tomorrow at the polls.
Please vote - it's the only way of sending a message and it may turn out to be the best time to ram that message home to all the incumbent parties. Please also vote as you do in the Europeans for the local elections: independent/minor party councillors can be a lot more constructive at local level than at national level. I still support the big two for government - which one depends on the time the election is held - because we do need governments which are able to do things rather than the sclerosis often associated with weak coalitions. I don't have a vote at the local poll tomorrow, but I would vote Liberal Democrat against the sitting Tory I helped to elect in a by-election in 2005, because somehow Cameron has to repay more than just his three hundred grand pilferings from the public purse. He cannot run the country with any credibility either, and the sooner we get a strong and clean opposition leader who hasn't been fiddling around with his mortgage, the better.
I hear the 31st cheapest is still available.
