Aren’t our politicians entertaining! They present us with their Daily Farce, with ever more ridiculous proposals to divert our attention from not implementing Brexit. We shout ‘it’s behind you!’ but they don’t hear us – they are busy preening before our incredulous gaze.
Yesterday Corbyn kicked off the Labour campaign for the EP elections and he told the nation that basically a 2nd referendum (he carefully did not use that expression) would ‘heal the Nation’:
“I would want that to be seen as a healing process bringing this whole process to a conclusion. Nothing is easy in this, but, our essential message has to be to bring people together.”(link)
It’s astonishing how he and incidentally Tory MPs are again wallowing in ‘bringing us all together’ imagery. They cry out for ‘unity’ after having busily destroyed it – but only when they see their cushy job as MP is in danger. Three years of not implementing Brexit is a case in point.
Corbyn has also learned from the EU. Not only is he happy to let us vote again and again until the result fits, he’s standing as firm as M Barnier in saying ‘No’:
“The hard-left leader suggested that cross-party talks with Theresa May’s ministers in recent weeks were going nowhere, saying he had received ‘no big offer’. And in a swipe at Tory infighting he added: ‘It’s difficult negotiating with a disintegrating government with Cabinet ministers jockeying for the succession, rather than working for an agreement.”(link)
That type of language sounds rather familiar! Just replace ‘hard-left leader’ with ‘M Barnier’ … see what I mean?
Meanwhile the LibDems showed us how ‘with it’ and ‘modern’ they are by having Sir Vince Cable launch their EP election manifesto with the title “Bollocks to Brexit” (link) – yes, really!
The Tories however have upped the stakes with their EP election leaflet, actually attacking Tory Brexiteer MPs:
“Theresa May is facing renewed anger from Brexiteers after Tory European election leaflets included a link to a website that names and shames MPs who voted against her withdrawal deal. […]The pamphlet is being distributed by freepost rather than activists, many of whom are on strike. The leaflet shows the party is effectively using the campaign to criticise the 34 Tory Brexiteers who call themselves the “Spartans” and the second referendum supporters who declined to back Mrs May’s deal in March, causing it to fall in the Commons.” (link, paywalled)
That’s bound to be a vote winner! There are more, utterly farcical news. A Remainer has filed a complaint with the Electoral Commission because TBP’s logo is an arrow which is next to the voting box and thus an unfair advantage (link)! Never mind, Anna Soubry (TIG) said the TBP logo showed a house that had fallen over, symbolising the ‘chaos of Brexit’ (link).
It’s laughable: all those Remain champions still believe that all of us Leave voters are total idiots who are even too stupid to realise what a logo means!
That was Act One of the Remainer EP farce. Lets lower the curtain, have a break, and raise the curtain on Act Two: what the ‘real’ politicians in the House of Clowns are getting up to – aaand: it’s more holidays!
The leader of the House, Ms Leadsom, announced another recess which will take place from May 24th to June 3rd. Astute readers will have noticed immediately that our MPs will go home right after the EP elections. The result won’t be made public before all EU member states have gone to their polls, some of which are on Sunday the 26th of May, so our lot won’t have to face the MSM when the results are out. Here’s a nice interpretation:
“Andrea Leadsom, the Commons leader, announced a week-long recess immediately after the European elections. The government uses recesses to stop MPs plotting, although this tactic has backfired because positions often harden when the Commons is not sitting as MPs discuss topics on WhatsApp groups. Asked whether it was right for MPs to take a break when Brexit legislation still had to be pushed through parliament, a Downing Street spokeswoman said: “Recesses are obviously agreed by the House. This particular recess occurs every year. […] We hope we are able to bring forward the Withdrawal Agreement Bill before recess.” (link, paywalled)
Other MSM pundits also think this is about preventing Tory MP plotters from plotting:
“This could give Theresa May protection against efforts to oust her if the Conservatives perform as badly as expected. Mrs Leadsom yesterday told MPs the Commons would rise again later this month ‘subject to the progress of business’.” (link)
Why are the PM and her Remain colleagues so frightened of ‘plotting’ and ‘ousting’ her? The Brady Bunch of the 1922 committee have now shown to all that they are toothless tigers, that their roar is akin to that of a frightened mouse. They won’t bite – they only want to play! For good measure, Amber Rudd warned the male leadership contestants:
”Amber Rudd rounded on Tory leadership contenders last night for ‘parading’ their wives in a bid to win support.The Work and Pensions Secretary also complained it was ‘all the men’ putting themselves forward to succeed Theresa May at the moment.” (link)
Good grief – hasn’t she noticed the female contestants? Could they not ‘parade’ their husbands? Or is that a cry to Tory members to vote for yet another female leader because the current one is such a success?
Farcical, isn’t it! Lower the curtain while we laugh! Now onto Act Three and that ‘business’. This is what the PM and her Remain cabinet plan:
“The Prime Minister is preparing to hold the votes in the next fortnight if Brexit talks with Labour collapse, and wants to find a mechanism that would force Parliament to choose a way forward, rather than risking another stalemate. One of the methods under consideration is to make MPs rank the alternative Brexit outcomes in order of preference, so that second and third preference votes are counted if no one option gets a majority.” (paywalled link)
Don’t despair – they have alternatives if that one doesn’t work:
“Other alternatives include a knockout system, where the least popular options are dropped after each round of voting until only one option remains.” (paywalled link)
The actual reason for this proposed HoC Farce, hidden in the text, is to keep the PM in office for as long as possible:
“It would mean Mrs May could prove to voters that progress had been made, and that Britain will leave the EU by the start of August. Downing Street hopes that would temper the expected backlash against the Conservatives in the European elections, in which party officials fear the Tories will finish sixth.” (paywalled link)
Don’t splutter! Sixth place is well deserved – but note that Drowning Street has now extended their timetable to August. What are a few extensions between friends, after all! This is why it’s a farce:
“But if the talks with Labour fail, Mrs May’s plan B is to hold indicative votes – so-called because they indicate the will of Parliament, rather than being legally binding. Last month MPs voted on eight different alternative Brexit outcomes, including remaining in the EU, a no deal Brexit, a second referendum and a customs union with the EU, all of which were voted down.” (paywalled link)
According to good old EU fashion: ‘force Parliament’ to vote again and again until the result fits. I’m sure the PM and all the Remainers in LibLabSNPGreen etc regret deeply that the EP elections can’t be re-run, and I suspect so does that lot in Brussels.
Yesterday evening the BBC broadcast the 2nd part of that Belgian TV show on how our EU friends regard us. Here’s a most excellent comment published in The Times:
“If Nigel Farage had commissioned a party political broadcast to expose the arrogance of the European Union elite he couldn’t have come up with anything as damning as a documentary shown this week.” (link, paywalled)
I’ll now watch it on catch-up, and if you haven’t watched it, you might like to do so as well, given this assessment:
“Any dispirited Brexiteer who needs reminding why they voted three years ago to leave the EU should watch it. I suggest that my Remainer friends should watch it too and then try telling me, with a straight face, that our future lies in an organisation as ghastly as this.” (link, paywalled)
Indeed!
KBO!
Corbyn wants to ‘heal the division in the nation’ yet he can’t do so that of his own party!
There is only one eway to vote on the 23rd May and that is The Brexit Party.
Well worth a read: https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2019/05/iain-dale-9.html
To go back to basics? …. and the obvious ………. Parliament has become unrepresentative, complacent, arrogant, unrealistic.
The people voted to leave the EU. Britain is the first country to do so in an EU regime that is even more unrepresentative, complacent, arrogant, and unrealistic.
So Brexit is proving to be a lesson in reality for all. The EU is locked into a global capitalist ideology in an attempt to destroy the basis of its existence, the coming together of nation States.
But, maybe, Parliament is slowly learning that “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” and Brexit has to be achieved one way or another and Mrs May’s deal, with all its imperfections, provides the basis for independence.
It’s not a deal it’s an agreement written by the EU for the EU and her orders are to get it through no matter the cost. There’s no independence waiting at the end of that road. If Parliament can’t enact a WTO exit then we need a new Parliament without traitor parties in it.
Yesss.
Absolutely spot-on analysis, MWT. The ‘WA’ is not an agreement it is a dictate which will trap us and all our resources and facilities into the EU forever.
Yes, Bill, but at least that has been recognised as such now. I’m sure she was trying to get it through Parliament before anyone had a chance to read and digest all 600 pages of it and realise what sort of an ‘agreement’ it was. She failed. Now we know what we’re fighting.
In your dreams I cansee you never bothered reading the 600 pages, because it does not even come close to seeing a basis for independence
Does “Bollocks to Brexit” rank with “Up yours Delores”?
Are we now allowed to print “Bollocks to the LimpDem weazels the Oh so attractive Syrens who lure the ship of our state onto the rocks of mediocracy, the morass of indecision and the endless chains of EU totalitarian slavery.
Their only saving grace are they vote against Mrs May`s capitulation document, not however, I would suspect for the reason that it is a load of treasonous bollocks
NB Viv if you are reading this please note my email address has changed again
So noted, Roger – I’ll drop you a line.
Well, apparently UKIP is a considered a dead duck according to the MSM and many of their article ‘commentors’ , mission accomplished there then, now lets turn our attention to the TBP which apparently is a stooge set up to split the vote and has been put in place by the Tories to ‘save’ the government and the party, as some sort of safe vote for Tory and Labour voters
All this media claptrap about the euro parliament which we all know is stuffed full of M.E.P’s ( well actually it appears like Westminster almost empty most of the time) who do nothing but talk and have no power to change anything and all backed up by an army of bureaucrats many from the U.K all troughing happily away .
Try asking around to find who voted for whom last time, most people don’t even know the name of ‘their’ M.E.P let alone how the voting system works.
As for Brexit there is a swathe of smug so called middle class voters in the UK that runs through the public sectors at all levels who have nice little lives and pensions or both and they are not going to change their reading patterns, their total support of BBC/Sky viewpoints to which they are glued, the NHS which is their religion and main topic of conversation or their total support for the two main parties. The whole country has been run like a comprehensive school and not a very good one at that with the pupils being told what do and think, for years.
Change here in the U.K , no chance.
FYI: Sir John Redwood wrote these brief remarks in regard to his Letter to the attorney General (which we re-published):
“The Attorney General raised with me the question of a reply to my letter when I bumped into him in Parliament this week. He wanted to tell me they are planning a reply. He also said that as my letter raises policy issues as well as legal ones it might be the Brexit Secretary who replies. It was clearly on his mind as I did not raise the matter
I said I did not mind who replied on behalf of the government. I take the long delay in replying to mean the government is finding it difficult to answer my points in a way which puts a better gloss on the “Delay our exit and take away our powers” Agreement we are talking about. The more people who read the critique of the Agreement the better.”
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Viv, I did as you suggested and took a look at Sir John`s posting, however I was hoping to find a copy of his original letter, to which he referred, and couldn`t find one. I`m sure you have a record in ID`s archives, could you post it please?
I also read one of the comments it finished up with these words about Mrs May “blinkered, self serving ambitions”
That phrase, to me had a ring about it that I thought as almost Shakespearian and Julius Caesar came to mind – I recall a Brutus (I think) speech.
Anyway, on reflection I believe there is room for a Shakespearian style play when you consider the plot and execution of Brexit, with all the factions within and without parliament all milling and plotting around the central modern equivalent would-be Caesar, that blo*dy awkward woman frau May,
and………..dear Viv, I believe you have the makings of this play in your wonderful pen pictures of the daily Brexit betrayal
He’s re-published the letter himself in his Diary today, but here it is on our site:
https://independencedaily.co.uk/open-letter-to-the-attorney-general-by-sir-john-redwood-mp/
Thanks Viv, pretty cogent stuff, I would suggest he hasn`t had a reply because it is unanswerable.
just one thing I didn`t notice was the permanent Joint Council that as we learned on here just recently that will mean direct rule, above parliament from Brussels. I would have thought that was the most potent penalty of the lot to object to.
Would our information be correct?
Ta for the tip. I’ll watch it on catch up too before May pulls it.
Perhaps in this recess after the EU election farce the plotters could knock up a facsimile 10 Downing St as they are doing with the HOC. May could then be chauffeured to it (Boris’ new short hair could fit under a chauffeur’s cap) and locked in. It could then be craned onto a low loader and taken to the winnng option of a three way referendum:
1) Bedlam (or Broadmoor)
2) The Gates of Hell (Watford Gap to a metro elitist like her, or maybe just Watford)
3) the Libyan desert ( where she can rely on the loving charity of the Peaceful Ones under Shari’a)
In case you can’t find it (I had trouble), it’s under ‘Storyville’.
Thanks Debbie
Meanwhile the headmasters arevturning on UKIP:
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/17630201.bishop-wordsworths-school-head-backs-decision-not-to-allow-ukip-at-hustings-following-defence-of-carl-benjamins-rape-tweet/
“The School has been keen to ensure a wide range of views is represented from different parties, with the Brexit Party, Lib Dems, Labour, Conservatives, Change UK and Greens all sending candidates.
“The PolSoc hustings is always the biggest event in Salisbury at election time – 450 attended in 2015, and UKIP have always been invited before.
“The School made the decision not to invite UKIP this time for a number of reasons – their low polling ratings and the defection of nearly all their MEPs, including the two elected from Wiltshire in 2014, mostly to the Brexit party, was a factor.
“Also significant was the increasing association of the party with hard-right and intolerant views and individuals such as Tommy Robinson. But the key factor was the rape comments made by Carl Benjamin, a candidate in our own region, and the defence of these by other UKIP representatives including its leader.
“If one of our students was found to have made these comments on social media, they would be excluded, regardless of context – we hope we get across to all our students that ‘rape jokes’ are never acceptable regardless of context, and feel it is reasonable to apply that standard to groups we choose to invite into school.”
As are our OWN candidates: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ukip-eu-election-candidate-quits-15020781
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I wonder why this chap left it so late to resign when he was fully aware of the Carl Benjamin issue (fabricated smear of the MSM) at the time he was himself selected.
In suspect the final straw was not Sargon saying he “wouldn’t rape her”, but him saying he might if we got him drunk enough ?
Is this genuine UK satire? NO, Perkins… ?