Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has announced he is going to gaslight us dreadful remoaners by getting crowdfunding in place in order for Big Ben to chime on Brexit day. He wants to raise £500k in order to make it happen. On one level, I am pleased he is not going to use public money to help celebrate Britain raising the drawbridge to Europe and so withdrawing so many rights and benefits from our children that my generation enjoyed. On another level, I would have thought there were slightly more worthy causes.
For instance, I have some Brexit-supporting social network friends who have repeatedly condemned the fact that so many former service personnel are sleeping on the streets. Wouldn’t they prefer it if £500k was crowdfunded in order to get these people who served our country to have the bare minimum of a roof over their heads? In fact, not just ex service personnel but all homeless people and rough sleepers.
One of my nearest and dearest friends is soon to carry out a marathon event in order to raise money for research to cure cancer. Every one of us is or has been touched by cancer at some point in our lives. How about crowdfunding for a sizeable donation to cancer research and McMillan nurses?
Or raise half a million quid and give it to the Trussell Trust so millions of people don’t have to go hungry?
Why raise half a million quid to ring a fucking bell that will have the unwanted effect of thrilling half the population and annoying the other half? It’s bad enough for us remoaners that we have lost the campaign to either ensure we have a soft Brexit or not have any kind of Brexit at all. We know we are leaving Europe now. We know the consequences will be damaging to our people, especially our young people who will be the ones who have to live with them.
