Time to strap yourselves in, folks!

Okay, so these are pretty weird times in both British and world politics – so let’s review where we’ve got to, shall we?

BREXIT IS A COMPLETE DISASTER

Whether we blame that pompous Eton-educated Tory posh boy David Cameron for promising the UK electorate an In-Out EU Referendum – either because he got spooked by the apparent (but illusionary) rise of UKIP that potentially threatened a Tory victory at the 2015 General Election, and/or because he was just a Grade A idiot anyway …

Or David Cameron (again) for his catastrophic and failed attempt to then ‘fix’ the result of said Referendum by going round the EU’s 27 countries with a begging bowl seeking to come away with a ‘deal’ that not only sorted all the EU’s faults, corruption, inadequacies and problematic issues but (more importantly) satisfied the UK’s misgivings about the whole EU project in the first place …

Or the EU generally (from top to bottom) for failing to give David Cameron such a deal – or indeed any deal – that would convince the UK electorate it was worth remaining in the EU …

Or the Neanderthal, knuckle-dragging racist working-class voters who blame the non-white population and foreigners – not least EU citizens – who annoyingly keep coming to work in this country and “take our jobs” (or rather is it “get given free-standing five-bedroomed houses for them and their work-shy families to live in, plus limitless benefits paid for by our hard-earned taxes”?) and therefore voted Leave …

Or the ‘couldn’t give a stuff, mischievous’ perfectly sensible, intelligent, hard-working, middle-class, middle-aged UK voters who thought they would give the Establishment a fright if they voted Leave as some form of whacky and vacuous protest gesture (but, of course, never in a million years expected that this would sway the Referendum result and produce a majority vote to Leave) …

Or the perfectly sensible and well-meaning supposedly-rational and intelligent people who genuinely believed that exiting the EU would be beneficial for the UK and therefore accordingly voted Leave (but were wrong) …

Or the devious political agitators and self-interested careerists who deliberately set out to hoodwink ordinary voters by inventing all sort of lies as to how wonderful and beneficial would be the UK’s fortunes if only it could rid itself of the deadly and restrictive EU yoke …

The fact is that we now all have to accept – because the entire UK media including the BBC, plus the House of Lords, Nick Clegg and Sir Richard Branson say so – that everyone who voted Remain was right and everyone who voted Leave (and also those who abrogated their responsibility to society and the world by not voting at all) was wrong, which means … of course … that as soon as possible the UK electorate should be given the chance to vote again in new Referendum which hopefully will then come back with the ‘right’ result.

 

THE LABOUR PARTY IS IN A HELL OF A STATE

Plainly, the left wing loonies and the Momentum movement have taken over the asylum and the Party’s nightmare will now continue for who knows how long, going who knows where.

Jeremy (‘Hopeless’) Corbyn is now leader for as long as he wants to be (or his puppet-masters do), so all the ‘sensible, moderate, House of Parliament, British Establishment’ Labour MPs who were rolling their eyes and panicking at Corbyn’s accession to the throne – because, obviously, it would make Labour unelectable) have had to row in behind him.

It’s become a matter of the mere toss of a coin as to whether the Tory Party – or the above-mentioned ‘sensible, moderate, Establishment’ group of Labour MPs – fear the prospect of Labour ever getting back into Government more.

 

ONLY THE TORY PARTY IS EVEN WORSE

With the Maybot a lame duck Prime Minister desperately in need of an executioner to put her out of her misery, the Remoaners and Brexiteers at each other’s throats in semi-open warfare and seemingly the tides of chaos constantly washing at the shores of Westminster, the Tories are similarly paralysed.

The traditional Tory narrative – “Whenever Labour get into power they just spend, spend, spend and wreck the UK’s economy with their silly left-wing political theories and sheer incompetence. Thus, when we get back into Number 10, it becomes our lot to have to restore sanity by bringing a halt to all the profligate spending, getting costs under control and running things properly” – isn’t buttering any parsnips any more.

See here for a link to a piece penned by Joe Watts (Political Editor) on the latest report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies as appears on the website of – THE INDEPENDENT

 

REFURBISHING THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AND, OF COURSE, SEX

Meanwhile the problem of the fast-decaying and sinking House of Commons – an issue upon which all Labour and Tory governments agree, in the sense that for past fifty years they’ve consistently put off dealing with it because it’s too difficult and expensive (not to mention the opposite of a vote-winner) – continues to rumble on.

Now with the Big Ben refurbishment as an add-on.

And from last weekend we’ve had the whole sexual harassment in Parliament – and British politics generally – er … ‘hot potato’ … just arrived, still steaming, on the doorstep.

This one is going to run and run, folks … and I just cannot wait for the tsunami of revelations that are bound to erupt in the next few months.

It’s guaranteed to be the next wholesale Parliamentary scandal after the old chestnut of MPs’ expenses that blew everything else off the front pages in 2009.

(Speaking of which, things on the expenses front seem to have gone a bit quite recently – no doubt as a result of an ongoing ‘behind the scenes, smoke-filled rooms deals’ conspiracy involving the grandees and whips of political parties of every hue, all orchestrated – by common consent – by the Speaker’s Office. Anyone know the latest on this one …?)

When you think about it all, what’s not to like?