I agree. I can see no reason to follow the news with any interest/enthusiasm. Better to bunker down with something that doesn’t make you want to vomit.
It won’t be for long. David Camern will use his influence to insist on his belief, firmly and unequivocally stated in 2010, that unelected PMs must face a General Election within 6 months. Won’t he?
No, that’s the one who got another post, something about International Trade. Nasty little sod who’s already been done for fiddling his expenses, amongst other things; can’t remember the name.
May: Johnson you fat fuck, get in here
Johnson: Ermm crikey indubitably
May: I want you to go and explain to everyone in the world why you broke our country
Johnson: Gosh Beako, I-
May: Just tell them you’re a fucking moronic toff wanker who lied and ran away
Johnson: Crickey Matron…
May: Because I don’t see why I should mop up your shit for you
Johnson: Oh cripes
May: Now fuck off abroad and don’t come back til Christmas
Clever Theresa May. Put him in the job with overall responsibility for managing the fallout of triggering article 50. When Brexit fails to deliver on any of its promises, TM can point at Boris, say it’s all his fault and fire him once and for all.
It may stop the rise of UKIP in the next election if failure to deliver can be blamed on Boris rather than the Tories in general.
She’s put David Davies, Liam Fox, and Boris Johnson in charge of sorting out the international mess they have fought for, whilst she’ll keep her real allies in charge of the important stuff back home. Brilliant politics, bit not so great for the country. Machiavelli is alive and well and living in the Tory party (but not, mores the pity, in the Labour Party).
Shocked and stunned, but Chiz has it right. She has handed over responsibility for Brexit and dealing with pesky foreigners over to those who wanted it. They will have to make the compromises and they will be responsible to the barking mad on the far right. It is extraordinary however that someone who has never held high office now holds one of the traditional top 3 posts but May is gambling on the fact that it is better to have him in the tent pissing out. Let’s just hope that someone knows what they’re doing.
If he had been appointed as a result of political sleight of hand, it’s a shrewd move as it stops him heckling from the cheap seats. But as our Glorious leader snuggles up with Arthur in the Number 10 four poster bed, navigating themselves around a) his washboard and b) the Camerons’ final Map of Africa – will she sleep soundly? Is he actually the best man for the job?
I see how this might be a pragmatic appointment on behalf of the PM (perhaps keeping an enemy closer) but…that level of expediency seems very parochial. It might work from a Westminster perspective, but doesn’t it reflect rather badly on the UK?
Is Johnson really the politician we want / need representing the interests of the UK?
Agree with this. At some point the needs of the country need to be placed ahead of the Westminster soap opera. Does anyone seriously think Johnson is the best candidate for this role?
I think these appointments are an error, both for the country and for May. In the short term, they buy her some time and keep the Tory right off her back. But the entire lesson of Cameron’s tenure is surely that you cannot sate the right, only embolden them.
I believe Johnson and Fox’s appointments are unquestionably risky, for the country. I have always thought Liam Fox to be slightly barking, and she’s gambling on a possible tendency towards pragmatism on Johnson’s part. He’s capable of saying one thing and believing something else. There is the fact that some believe that the role of foreign secretary is largely an empty role these days, and he won’t have sole control or authority. David Davies’s role seems to be the more significant. When I’ve heard him speak, he seems to be more thoughtful.
Being an optimistic cove I think Davies maybe is the right guy – he has a long experience in Europe and as you say, is more measured then some of the Eurosceptics. Also he takes no shit, and let’s face it, there will be plenty. Fox….don’t like him much and there was that scandal, but apparently he is a long term thinker on international trade, has written books about it etc…and maybe you need a Leaver to make the worldwide case – someone who was desperate to stay in the EU might not be credible looking for global trade? Boris….here I smell “you broke it, you fix it” and she can legitimately sack him if he fucks up. The Foreign Office is traditionally where you put people you want out of the way. And he does have a Global presence after his London Mayor role, though I am stretching my positive view of the world to believe he’s do more than put his foot in it and get sacked.
Sacking Gove is excellent news, as he’s a toxic nut job, though it’s true he’s a good implementer.
The problem Davis has is that he does not understand EU law. He made a series of tweets during the campaign asserting that the UK could negotiate separate trade agreements with individual EU countries.
Unfortunately for Davis, negotiation of individual trade deals is specifically against EU law.
With counter-intuitive decisions like this, I always tend to assume that those closest to the coal face know what they’re doing, and will have access to information not available to the rest of us. But then why would Roy Hodgson play Rooney out of position all tournament when everybody else thought it was a bad idea? Maybe, like that decision, this is simply a bad one.
There’s an interesting article on the sudden decline in the UK’s influence on EU policy in one of the papers today – “Currently, six British MEPs serve as chairs or vice-chairs on European parliament committees, which play a powerful role in shaping EU law.”
Hardly unaccountable and, what with it being based on proportional representation, hardly undemocratic either might be one other way of looking at it?
Accountability will take a further blow if the EU negotiators require some degree of compliance with EU law as a condition of access to the single market/other trade terms, and we discover we’ve lost all ability to influence said laws.
The UK has historically been considered a moderating force when it comes to EU law-making; god knows what craziness they’ll cook up in our absence.
I’m starting to think that the collapse of the EU (at least in its current form) may fairly quickly prove to be our best case scenario here.
“Accountability will take a further blow if the EU negotiators require some degree of compliance with EU law as a condition of access to the single market/other trade terms, and we discover we’ve lost all ability to influence said laws.”
Love to have you on the negotiating team, Einstein.
The junior doctors and the BMA engage in a short period of euphoria as Jeremy Hunt is shown the door. And the BBC also breathe a little easier as John Whittingdale follows him.
If you’d told me a year ago that a working class rebellion would finish Cameron, Osborne and Letwin – Bullingdon boys all – and their erstwhile leader Johnson would be forced to roam the Earth mumbling apologies through a gimp mask, I would have thought you were crackers.
It’s a shame the rebellion was by greedy racists and dazzled fools rather than the glorious Socialist uprising seizing control of the machinery of power, but hey ho. Can’t have everything.
According to the demographics, the poor voted,, by some considerable margin, to leave. The salt of the earth; once Labour voters, now smeared as ‘racists’ and ‘fools’ by faux-socialists.
As pointed out by many, even on the Left – it’s not ‘racist’ to have control of one’s borders, nor to have sensible immigration policies.
I’m not of the opinion that the UK has a responsibility to mop up the mass unemployment of other countries, as suggested by Gordon Brown.
As for your heartstrings-tugging points, polls showed a huge majority in favour of immigrants, who were already here, being allowed to stay.
As for the emotively-termed ‘victims of oppression’ – where does one stop? Almost the entire continent of Africa could be so described, given the corrupt kleptocrats impoverishing their own people.
Wandering around a Lincolnshire car boot the day after the vote the only talk I heard was “when can we send them home” and “now we can get rid of the muslims” and plenty of similar comments.
Of course this proves nothing but I think that the “send them home” brigade is sizeable and has been emboldened by the leave vote.
Typical trotskyist – ‘sure the rebellion won and the masses kicked out the toffs, but, you know, they’re still uncivilised peasants. At least the toffs weren’t racist’
Boris is many things but he’s not a fool. He did a great job promoting London, remember the Olympics anyone? If he fucks this up he has nowhere left to go. The foreign office will have him on a very short rein. For me this just gets better and better. A Tory government with a woman in charge but talking about helping the whole country not just a few, making tough decisions and the line “Brexit is Brexit” should draw a line under all the uncertainty and become the point at which we all realised we should grasp this opportunity while Europe puts it’s nose against our toy shop window and wish it could come in and play.
In all fairness, Dave, I haven’t a clue how Brexit will unfold. I don’t find it impossible to imagine a bright long term future outside the EU (or that the EU might implode), I just know that the noises I’m hearing from friends who work across multiple sectors are not great right now. Might just be initial market uncertainty that will settle down, might be something more. We’ll see. I also know how hard it’s going to be to do the trade deal with the EU that some of the high profile Brexiters seem to have decided will be a piece of piss.
I’m teasing above, but I do admire your relentless optimism. I just hope that the people making the decisions will keep their eyes open and do so on the basis of the evidence unfolding around them, rather than ideology, because there are hundreds of thousand of jobs at stake here if they balls this up.
Oh, and you’re wrong about Ronaldo. Not least because he waxes his balls.
Bingo, it’s all conjecture, I’m more than aware I may be unemployed and my house worth bugger all in 5 years time. I keep banging the drum of optimism because I was genuinely horrified (not a word I use often) by the unrelenting wailing and despair of some of the remainers, the worst being those on Twitter declaring we would be at war within months, really?. Experts schmexperts who knows? You know I will never make anything personal, it’s only words (or cartoon dogs)
A thought to leave you with, imagine Ronaldos face as the wax strip is yanked off.
Is that the Olympics that Ken Livinstone’s administration secured, Sebastian Coe organisased and to which Boris Johnson’s contribution was twatting about on a zip line? Yes, I do remember them (just about – the most permanent legacy the seem to have left is that hideous tower which has now had a slide bolted on to it to try to make it a bigger tourist draw).
It seems to be generally agreed that Boris’ new role is to be a public figure to promote the country but with no power, a jolly mascot like a parliamentary Honey Monster, which seems to be a fair compromise to keep him on a short leash while indulging his craving for attention. I don’t think he can claim much credit for the London Olympics.
Drawn out of an extended leave of absence to say this. Although I am not typically partisan, the three posts above say it all for me when all is considered and said and done.
Bastard! I was going to comment on of all the twonks to leave in post, Rhymeswith Hunt was the one I had highest hopes for a debagging. I had heard on the R4 news he was staying, with then your earlier post making my heart sing. Now it’s farting.
His tweet earlier today….
Jeremy Hunt ✔ @Jeremy_Hunt
‘Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated…’ Thrilled to be back in the best job in Government.
1:03 PM – 14 Jul 2016
Must be wrong. The exit was voted for by the Salt Of The Earth apparently, for entirely enlightened and sensible reasons, so this cannot possibly be a decent analysis. And any way, it’s been written in consultation with the odd “expert”, and we all know what they’re worth.
Marketwatch is part of the Murdoch empire. Rupert does know: he is rabidly anti-EU. The politics.co.uk piece was written in consultation with independent experts. But, still, I think we’ve all had enough of experts.
Existential crisis, eh. You’ve really bought the ‘globalisation is good’ mantra.
Some of you remind me of doomsday cultists insisting that the world will end when all the evidence would suggest that you’ve been fed a load of pony by your gurus.
Theresa May’s opening words about ending inequality give me a great deal of hope in her leadership. After all, Margaret Thatcher totally delivered on her St Francis of Assisi prayer.
PMs just get excited and words come tumbling out on their first day. Not sure she’s met with Murdoch yet, but he will set her straight I’m sure.
badartdog says
I had a fiver on him for the England job.
bricameron says
How apt is ‘The Jam’s’ ” Going Underground”, now?
deramdaze says
I agree. I can see no reason to follow the news with any interest/enthusiasm. Better to bunker down with something that doesn’t make you want to vomit.
Gatz says
It won’t be for long. David Camern will use his influence to insist on his belief, firmly and unequivocally stated in 2010, that unelected PMs must face a General Election within 6 months. Won’t he?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8641552.stm
Dave Ross says
Anyone else notice that Theresa May is married to hank Marvin?
GCU Grey Area says
Or Arthur Atkinson?
http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/arthur_zpsomdqqhe2.jpg
‘Have you seen the Foreign Secretary, madam? How queer.’
Vulpes Vulpes says
No, that’s the one who got another post, something about International Trade. Nasty little sod who’s already been done for fiddling his expenses, amongst other things; can’t remember the name.
chiz says
May: Johnson you fat fuck, get in here
Johnson: Ermm crikey indubitably
May: I want you to go and explain to everyone in the world why you broke our country
Johnson: Gosh Beako, I-
May: Just tell them you’re a fucking moronic toff wanker who lied and ran away
Johnson: Crickey Matron…
May: Because I don’t see why I should mop up your shit for you
Johnson: Oh cripes
May: Now fuck off abroad and don’t come back til Christmas
nigelthebald says
What has abroad done to deserve this?
count jim moriarty says
There are huge areas of the world he hasn’t insulted or made racist remarks about yet. He can start in China…
Fifer says
Were you in the room? That’s exactly (well, apart from the language) how I hope it went.
Beezer says
Chiz, I’ve lifted this in its entirety and put it on FB, stating it’s not of my making but that of someone far more cleverer and that like.
No doubt you’ll see it floating up soon.
Ta
B
Mousey says
Might have known this is where it came from! I shared yr FB post Mr B
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I might have stolen that post and might have posted it on FB as well (possibly)
VincePacket says
This is the end of Boris “Cockwomble” Johnson.
Clever Theresa May. Put him in the job with overall responsibility for managing the fallout of triggering article 50. When Brexit fails to deliver on any of its promises, TM can point at Boris, say it’s all his fault and fire him once and for all.
It may stop the rise of UKIP in the next election if failure to deliver can be blamed on Boris rather than the Tories in general.
Blue Boy says
She’s put David Davies, Liam Fox, and Boris Johnson in charge of sorting out the international mess they have fought for, whilst she’ll keep her real allies in charge of the important stuff back home. Brilliant politics, bit not so great for the country. Machiavelli is alive and well and living in the Tory party (but not, mores the pity, in the Labour Party).
Dodger Lane says
Shocked and stunned, but Chiz has it right. She has handed over responsibility for Brexit and dealing with pesky foreigners over to those who wanted it. They will have to make the compromises and they will be responsible to the barking mad on the far right. It is extraordinary however that someone who has never held high office now holds one of the traditional top 3 posts but May is gambling on the fact that it is better to have him in the tent pissing out. Let’s just hope that someone knows what they’re doing.
Black Celebration says
If he had been appointed as a result of political sleight of hand, it’s a shrewd move as it stops him heckling from the cheap seats. But as our Glorious leader snuggles up with Arthur in the Number 10 four poster bed, navigating themselves around a) his washboard and b) the Camerons’ final Map of Africa – will she sleep soundly? Is he actually the best man for the job?
Marwood says
I see how this might be a pragmatic appointment on behalf of the PM (perhaps keeping an enemy closer) but…that level of expediency seems very parochial. It might work from a Westminster perspective, but doesn’t it reflect rather badly on the UK?
Is Johnson really the politician we want / need representing the interests of the UK?
Bingo Little says
Agree with this. At some point the needs of the country need to be placed ahead of the Westminster soap opera. Does anyone seriously think Johnson is the best candidate for this role?
fitterstoke says
…and on that note….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-36790977
Bingo Little says
I think these appointments are an error, both for the country and for May. In the short term, they buy her some time and keep the Tory right off her back. But the entire lesson of Cameron’s tenure is surely that you cannot sate the right, only embolden them.
Dodger Lane says
I believe Johnson and Fox’s appointments are unquestionably risky, for the country. I have always thought Liam Fox to be slightly barking, and she’s gambling on a possible tendency towards pragmatism on Johnson’s part. He’s capable of saying one thing and believing something else. There is the fact that some believe that the role of foreign secretary is largely an empty role these days, and he won’t have sole control or authority. David Davies’s role seems to be the more significant. When I’ve heard him speak, he seems to be more thoughtful.
Hope over expectation ?
Twang says
Being an optimistic cove I think Davies maybe is the right guy – he has a long experience in Europe and as you say, is more measured then some of the Eurosceptics. Also he takes no shit, and let’s face it, there will be plenty. Fox….don’t like him much and there was that scandal, but apparently he is a long term thinker on international trade, has written books about it etc…and maybe you need a Leaver to make the worldwide case – someone who was desperate to stay in the EU might not be credible looking for global trade? Boris….here I smell “you broke it, you fix it” and she can legitimately sack him if he fucks up. The Foreign Office is traditionally where you put people you want out of the way. And he does have a Global presence after his London Mayor role, though I am stretching my positive view of the world to believe he’s do more than put his foot in it and get sacked.
Sacking Gove is excellent news, as he’s a toxic nut job, though it’s true he’s a good implementer.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Witteringdale is out of a job too; doubles all round.
count jim moriarty says
The problem Davis has is that he does not understand EU law. He made a series of tweets during the campaign asserting that the UK could negotiate separate trade agreements with individual EU countries.
Unfortunately for Davis, negotiation of individual trade deals is specifically against EU law.
Poppy Succeeds says
With counter-intuitive decisions like this, I always tend to assume that those closest to the coal face know what they’re doing, and will have access to information not available to the rest of us. But then why would Roy Hodgson play Rooney out of position all tournament when everybody else thought it was a bad idea? Maybe, like that decision, this is simply a bad one.
bricameron says
How does that saying go? Never assume that those in charge know what they’re doing.
niscum says
It’s just politics, that’s how it works. Appease a faction.
Davis is the boss of the new Brexit department. Great news, it just keeps getting better.
For the first time in years we now have a government that seems to offer some promise.
Brexit means Brexit, but I guess some will never accept it.
EU: unaccountable and undemocratic. Watch it’s demise in slow motion now.
Bingo Little says
“It’s just politics, that’s how it works.”
That’s actually probably the fairest assessment of this appointment.
Skirky says
There’s an interesting article on the sudden decline in the UK’s influence on EU policy in one of the papers today – “Currently, six British MEPs serve as chairs or vice-chairs on European parliament committees, which play a powerful role in shaping EU law.”
Hardly unaccountable and, what with it being based on proportional representation, hardly undemocratic either might be one other way of looking at it?
Bingo Little says
Accountability will take a further blow if the EU negotiators require some degree of compliance with EU law as a condition of access to the single market/other trade terms, and we discover we’ve lost all ability to influence said laws.
The UK has historically been considered a moderating force when it comes to EU law-making; god knows what craziness they’ll cook up in our absence.
I’m starting to think that the collapse of the EU (at least in its current form) may fairly quickly prove to be our best case scenario here.
niscum says
“Accountability will take a further blow if the EU negotiators require some degree of compliance with EU law as a condition of access to the single market/other trade terms, and we discover we’ve lost all ability to influence said laws.”
Love to have you on the negotiating team, Einstein.
niscum says
“There’s an interesting article on the sudden decline in the UK’s influence on EU policy in one of the papers today”
You’re serious, right?
SteveT says
Davis maybe but Johnson?
Its like putting King Herod in charge of a kindergarten.
policybloke says
The junior doctors and the BMA engage in a short period of euphoria as Jeremy Hunt is shown the door. And the BBC also breathe a little easier as John Whittingdale follows him.
count jim moriarty says
And plunge into deep depression when they realise the useless bastard has been left in place.
chiz says
If you’d told me a year ago that a working class rebellion would finish Cameron, Osborne and Letwin – Bullingdon boys all – and their erstwhile leader Johnson would be forced to roam the Earth mumbling apologies through a gimp mask, I would have thought you were crackers.
It’s a shame the rebellion was by greedy racists and dazzled fools rather than the glorious Socialist uprising seizing control of the machinery of power, but hey ho. Can’t have everything.
ianess says
According to the demographics, the poor voted,, by some considerable margin, to leave. The salt of the earth; once Labour voters, now smeared as ‘racists’ and ‘fools’ by faux-socialists.
chiz says
‘Salt of the Earth’ is an emotive phrase (as is faux-socialist, but I can live with that).
Would the Salt of the Earth vote to send their fellow worker home because he has a different accent, or to close the door to victims of oppression?
ianess says
As pointed out by many, even on the Left – it’s not ‘racist’ to have control of one’s borders, nor to have sensible immigration policies.
I’m not of the opinion that the UK has a responsibility to mop up the mass unemployment of other countries, as suggested by Gordon Brown.
As for your heartstrings-tugging points, polls showed a huge majority in favour of immigrants, who were already here, being allowed to stay.
As for the emotively-termed ‘victims of oppression’ – where does one stop? Almost the entire continent of Africa could be so described, given the corrupt kleptocrats impoverishing their own people.
Fin59 says
polls showed a huge majority in favour of immigrants, who were already here, being allowed to stay.
Fuck me. Did you really say that?
So, we can call off the orders for the extra cattle trains. And the Zyklon B.
Rob C says
That’s a disgustingly offensive to say, mind you, all this ‘play the ball’ crap….
Over and out.
Rob C says
Fin. Above.
ip33 says
Wandering around a Lincolnshire car boot the day after the vote the only talk I heard was “when can we send them home” and “now we can get rid of the muslims” and plenty of similar comments.
Of course this proves nothing but I think that the “send them home” brigade is sizeable and has been emboldened by the leave vote.
niscum says
“So, we can call off the orders for the extra cattle trains. And the Zyklon B.”
Green ink again?
Fin59 says
Think you need to look closer to home for swivel eyes Nisc old fruit. Or sorry are you Ianess?
niscum says
Typical trotskyist – ‘sure the rebellion won and the masses kicked out the toffs, but, you know, they’re still uncivilised peasants. At least the toffs weren’t racist’
Two legs good, four legs bad …
chiz says
Typical Thatcherite – make something ridiculous up and claim it’s your opponent’s position
BigJimBob says
Blimey the toffs aren’t in power? When did that happen, then?
bricameron says
(Chuckles out loud)
Dave Ross says
Boris is many things but he’s not a fool. He did a great job promoting London, remember the Olympics anyone? If he fucks this up he has nowhere left to go. The foreign office will have him on a very short rein. For me this just gets better and better. A Tory government with a woman in charge but talking about helping the whole country not just a few, making tough decisions and the line “Brexit is Brexit” should draw a line under all the uncertainty and become the point at which we all realised we should grasp this opportunity while Europe puts it’s nose against our toy shop window and wish it could come in and play.
Bingo Little says
http://i.imgur.com/URy83d8.jpg
Dave Ross says
Very good but we’ll see (Ronaldo is still better than Messi :))
Bingo Little says
In all fairness, Dave, I haven’t a clue how Brexit will unfold. I don’t find it impossible to imagine a bright long term future outside the EU (or that the EU might implode), I just know that the noises I’m hearing from friends who work across multiple sectors are not great right now. Might just be initial market uncertainty that will settle down, might be something more. We’ll see. I also know how hard it’s going to be to do the trade deal with the EU that some of the high profile Brexiters seem to have decided will be a piece of piss.
I’m teasing above, but I do admire your relentless optimism. I just hope that the people making the decisions will keep their eyes open and do so on the basis of the evidence unfolding around them, rather than ideology, because there are hundreds of thousand of jobs at stake here if they balls this up.
Oh, and you’re wrong about Ronaldo. Not least because he waxes his balls.
Dave Ross says
Bingo, it’s all conjecture, I’m more than aware I may be unemployed and my house worth bugger all in 5 years time. I keep banging the drum of optimism because I was genuinely horrified (not a word I use often) by the unrelenting wailing and despair of some of the remainers, the worst being those on Twitter declaring we would be at war within months, really?. Experts schmexperts who knows? You know I will never make anything personal, it’s only words (or cartoon dogs)
A thought to leave you with, imagine Ronaldos face as the wax strip is yanked off.
Bingo Little says
Ha ha – very good!
niscum says
Poor little Bingo’s having a breakdown.
Bingo Little says
If you want my attention, you need only ask for it.
niscum says
No, I think someone *points at Bingo* needs a hug, amirite?
Bingo Little says
Go on then, you cheeky little rascal.
Gatz says
Is that the Olympics that Ken Livinstone’s administration secured, Sebastian Coe organisased and to which Boris Johnson’s contribution was twatting about on a zip line? Yes, I do remember them (just about – the most permanent legacy the seem to have left is that hideous tower which has now had a slide bolted on to it to try to make it a bigger tourist draw).
It seems to be generally agreed that Boris’ new role is to be a public figure to promote the country but with no power, a jolly mascot like a parliamentary Honey Monster, which seems to be a fair compromise to keep him on a short leash while indulging his craving for attention. I don’t think he can claim much credit for the London Olympics.
Rob C says
Drawn out of an extended leave of absence to say this. Although I am not typically partisan, the three posts above say it all for me when all is considered and said and done.
bricameron says
I do hope you’re back for good,Rob.
policybloke says
I was misinformd. Junior doctors and BMA groan in despair, as Jeremy Hunt holds on to his position.
retropath2 says
Bastard! I was going to comment on of all the twonks to leave in post, Rhymeswith Hunt was the one I had highest hopes for a debagging. I had heard on the R4 news he was staying, with then your earlier post making my heart sing. Now it’s farting.
retropath2 says
His tweet earlier today….
Jeremy Hunt ✔ @Jeremy_Hunt
‘Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated…’ Thrilled to be back in the best job in Government.
1:03 PM – 14 Jul 2016
Poppy Succeeds says
As usual, the Daily Mash nails it.
Wheldrake says
I too return from an extended leave to post this. It’s a very good analysis of the Brexit situation. Whichever way you carve it, we are fucked.
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/07/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-theresa-may-s-brexit
Vulpes Vulpes says
Must be wrong. The exit was voted for by the Salt Of The Earth apparently, for entirely enlightened and sensible reasons, so this cannot possibly be a decent analysis. And any way, it’s been written in consultation with the odd “expert”, and we all know what they’re worth.
Dave Ross says
On the other hand……. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brexit-backlash-has-thrown-europe-not-britain-into-crisis-2016-07-12?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo&ref=yfp
NO ONE KNOWS!!!
BigJimBob says
Marketwatch is part of the Murdoch empire. Rupert does know: he is rabidly anti-EU. The politics.co.uk piece was written in consultation with independent experts. But, still, I think we’ve all had enough of experts.
niscum says
“Whichever way you carve it, we are fucked.”
Existential crisis, eh. You’ve really bought the ‘globalisation is good’ mantra.
Some of you remind me of doomsday cultists insisting that the world will end when all the evidence would suggest that you’ve been fed a load of pony by your gurus.
Fin59 says
Run along now IanNisc, the adults are talking. Off you go. Good boy.
On The Fence says
He will be your prime minister one day,,,fun and games !… I got my supply of beer and popcorn and will watch the fireworks from a distamce
anton says
Black Celebration says
Theresa May’s opening words about ending inequality give me a great deal of hope in her leadership. After all, Margaret Thatcher totally delivered on her St Francis of Assisi prayer.
PMs just get excited and words come tumbling out on their first day. Not sure she’s met with Murdoch yet, but he will set her straight I’m sure.