How Did We Get To Here?

Years ago, when I was working for a music publishers, one of the regular visitors to the company offices was a typical music biz chancer of the time, always on the look for a gimmick that would be a quick way to a hit.  One of the acts he managed wrote a UK Euro entry (One Step Closer - Bardo), which nearly came a cropper because the song had already been released in Japan on the b-side of the original band's single.  A business bigwig got wind of this, but it was all hushed up because our chancer had some knowledge about the other guy that he hinted would get into the press if he went to the authorities, so that all went quiet.  A few months later, he was looking for a 30's/40's novelty song for another set of charges (another washed-up formerly faux mod band, trying to reinvent themselves as all-round entertainers).  As my job required much time in the sheet & recorded music archive, I found the perfect song for them, and it was a bona fide hit.  Unfortunately, the song was so old & obscure, my employers' rights to the copyright had lapsed and no-one had seen any point in renewing them. 

A few years after the music publishers closed down, and I was well out of the music business, I saw the old chancer on TV.  He was claiming to have found film of the Americans undertaking an autopsy of those on board a UFO.  Obviously, this was pretty soon exposed as a complete scam, but the incident was made into a film.  What a let down - to have part of the story of your life on the silver screen, only for your part to be played by Ant.  Or was it Dec?

Why am I reminded of this?  Well, one Christmas, as I wrote my Christmas cards for my colleagues, I found among my Woolies selection the perfect card for him.  Two little cartoon mice, playing ten pin bowling, but using holly berries as bowling balls.  A little bit of customisation of the card and it was perfect for him, and went down a storm in the office: a little word bubble, stating "Keep going - If you throw enough of these at the wall, some of them will stick".

Unless she is genuinely deluded, I have a feeling that the sentiment of that little card sums up the Prime Minister's EU vote strategy.

I despair.