And now a message to our national TV broadcasters: please spare us a TV debate about the EU between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. I don’t think I can stand it. Not just the ‘debate’ itself but the endless build-up and then the post debate debates. If this carries on, we are going to have to delay Christmas, quite possibly into the mid 2020s.
Can’t we just end this absurd malarkey right now? Let’s just get on with it. It has now become very clear, as remoaners said all along, that Brexit would drag on for many years, probably decades, and the consequences of it will live with the mainly older people who voted for it. When parliament rejects both May’s terrible ‘Chequers’ deal to leave Europe and the national suicide option of ‘no deal’, I’m afraid there’s only one thing to do: give the people a vote on which Brexit they want and give us the option of remaining.
As a matter of principle, I am fundamentally opposed to the idea of holding a referendum on anything. We have a parliamentary democracy where we elect people to carry out decisions for us. If we don’t like these politicians, we can boot them out. The idea that we then have referendums for some ‘awkward’ decisions strikes me as absurd. But my God, haven’t the politicians ever let us down? I’m having to do a 180, just for once.
David Cameron started it and his legacy will be of the man who set fire to his country and then buggered off, leaving it to those who remained to try and put it out. Not only that, those who stoked the fire until it was out of control, the likes of Boris Johnson, David Davis and Dominic Raab, walked out too. None of these politicians are exactly Churchillian standard, but Christ, we have now got political pygmies in charge of the governing party and the opposition. And now they want to chat about it on telly.
That’s Theresa May who campaigned very quietly to remain in the EU because she believes in it and Jeremy Corbyn who campaigned very quietly to remain in the EU despite the fact he is a long-standing hard Brexiter. May knows that any deal to leave the EU will make the country worse off but calls her deal “the best possible deal” and Corbyn who wants a bad deal because he believes the collapse of the country will usher in socialism in one country. Because it worked so well in Cuba and Venezuela.
The robotic May never answers questions, the hopelessly incompetent Corbyn asks questions written by someone else. Neither can think on their feet. How on earth can anyone suggest this will be a meaningful debate? It won’t be. Unless it is chaired by a political heavyweight like Andrew Neil, it will be an exercise in soundbites and rhetoric. We will learn nothing new. And if anyone thinks they will learn something new from watching two political inadequates in action (or is it inaction?) I have to tell them this will be a hopeless miscalculation on their part.
But don’t just cancel the debate between the Maybot and Magic Grandpa: cancel Brexit, too. The Brexit promised by the liars and shysters like Farage, Johnson and co was a lie, paid for by dodgy millionaires and foreign powers. Brexit is really about English nationalism, about destroying and paring back every aspect of government, about making the labour market more flexible (by removing laws that protect working people) and making the rich richer, something they believe they can only achieve by Brexit and its opportunities (for them).
More weasel words from politicians? No, thanks. Just the truth or more to the point an admission that the Brexit the 52% voted for was an illusion, that we will lose, not regain, control and we will all be worse off, all except the very rich who caused this to happen in the first place.
