The Symbolism of Hurricane Gordon

With the approach of the Labour Party Conference, and the end of Tony Blair's premiership in sight, those of us with an interest in syncronicity (or meaningful co-incidence) may wonder at the symbolism of Hurricane Gordon, and the onset of unseasonably warm and windy weather.

Hopefully, the hurricane's impact will not be felt too strongly in the UK. The eye of the storm is forecast to be elsewhere. Besides Britain's own Gordon, Chancellor Brown, conjures up damp, overcast weather in my mind, with the prospect of localised air pollution, itself re-inforced by global climatology. The fiscal climate of the globalised Brown economy - still to enter the Green era - is rather grey in outloook, but we have yet to encounter the "great storms" (and their economic manifestations) which presaged the end of the Thatcher government. However, the Scottish Chancellor, like the man who gives his name to "The Scottish Play", should take heed of changes in the weather.

(This theme is taken up in my poem - At Thames Gateway)