Watching Britain at the moment from the stability of the European Union is a rather ghoulish sport.
It is a bit like walking past a queue of crumpled Brits at an airport on the Continent.
The poor dears don’t realise that we’ve had to take back control.
There doesn’t seem to be a realisation among the neighbours that they are now somewhat diminished.
They keep throwing shapes, thinking they’re what they once were.
Now, a wee bit of scéal for ye.
If the Brits go through with the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, then what is being experienced at the moment will be like a golden age of free trade and free movement.
Now, that’s straight from Capitol Hill.
Just like in my grandparents’ time, we Irish have exiled children in America and gallant allies in Europe.
Anyone in Westminster who thinks that they can simultaneously take on Uncle Sam and the EU in a trade war must be on something.
Perhaps a bad batch of antibiotics might do it.
Today saw another cabinet departure.
Quite the piece of work this one.
Dear reader, if your dream in life is to be responsible for deporting desperate, frightened people to Rwanda and watching the plane take off, then you’ve failed as a human.
There’s definitely, no love lost between those two!
There were reports from lobby journalists that the government chief whip Wendy Morton had also resigned.
Then she hadn’t.
To my untrained Irish eye, it looks like utter chaos and in a G7 country.
Moreover, it doesn’t seem to have reached the endpoint.
Sadly, viewers in Scotland do not have their own programme.
They’re also in the long queue at the airport as the world only sees them as Brits.
Of course, some in Fair Caledonia rejoice at that state of affairs.
Now, any sober analysis might well see that as rather flawed.
Red card! Red card!
At this stage, there can’t be any act of self-harm that is off the table in Britain.
Tonight there were reports of scuffles in the division lobby in Westminster.
Mother of Parliaments?
Someone on Twitter remarked tonight that :
“My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs.
He’s four months old.”
Now apparently, it is this guy who is really in charge at the moment.
All of this, of course, can be traced back to the Brexit vote in 2016.
Here are those notorious lefties, the Financial Times laying it all out in forensic detail in this video.
It’s worth your time.
There was no economic case for Brexit.
Instead, the pitch was highly emotional to a very specific demographic.
“Take back control” was a well-understood code.
It harked back to the days of British pre-eminence.
For people born just after World War Two, therefore around 70 years of age in 2016, it was a heady brew of xenophobia and nostalgia.
Britain is no longer the global big hitter that it once was, and those imperial days are not coming back.
A bit like Sevco, it is the pretence that is killing them.
Perhaps we in Ireland can send them some help.
A chap who is globally renowned for his ability to spoof about stuff.
Now, that would be cruelty on a Cromwellian scale!
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This can be tracked back to Thatcher and the big bang and more recently the 1998 banking act which handed the Bank of England control of the countries money supply ( and us effectively )
We have just witnessed a very British coup….The “British” being the rich landed banker establishment of course, the same people who sell peoples spuds while the people starve to death.
Welcome to starvation folks.
People can decide for themselves whether Truss is a warmonger, or not. There shouldn’t be much doubt though. Either way-she’s politically inept. It’s arguably naive to be over deferential towards the EU. They have people like Meloni, Orban, Macron et al. Of course, they don’t have a bumbling buffoon as their reigning monarch. Scotland has to go it alone. Otherwise it’s decades more of Westminster sleaze.
“the stability of the European Union”
Really, have you seen the cost of living crisis demos in France, Germany, Italy etc?
I’m sure Senior EU Officials are having a grand old time; the citizens not so much.
“We Don’t Care What The Freemarket Fundamentalists Say!”
Check out the ignorant comments on the Irish women’s team singing IRA tunes after a good win against Scottish womens team at hampden by an English mp at prime ministers question time yesterday
Interesting piece Phil,
I think it’s very noticable that the Tories are an increasingly factionalised and fractured party, tearing into each other with the appetite of wolf packs on forest mushrooms of questionable qualities.
I;m also very conscious of the parralels with your latest Novel – “Native Shore” where certain branches of the British establishment develop, may I say, their own approach to dealing with their percieved opponents
Guess Truss et al will create another spike in Irish passport applications from exasperated Brits?
Now, where did I write down my Ancestry.com password…? 🙂
Here’s what I don’t understand, how Scotland will not use this as a stepping stone to go independent.
I get it you are worried times might be tough, but I’m sure as hell can’t see them being the shit show that has been Britain for the past five years!
I have a nagging doubt that the SNP actually want independence. 2 reasons for this being.
1 it’s easy to blame the “English” government for all your problems.
2 In an independent Scotland I don’t think they will be running the country. My guess would probably be Labour.
If only.Labour saw it that way all those years ago. Would take a while for me to forgive but you never know. I could never understand why during the Indy Ref Labours didn’t say “That we believe in the Union butt will fight to govern an independent Scotland should that be the democratic will of its.people”. Instead what they did was.embark on a dumbing down on politics, treated us like fools and got.into bed with them.
Their huge mistake was to treat every Yes voter as an SNP voter. I reckon I’d go Green first tbh. In fact probably will at the next election.
SNP in reality only have one mandate (INDEPENDENCE)
Your take on the SNP is completely wrong, we understand that it will be anyone’s opportunity to govern the newly independent country.
Labour,Alba,Tory,liberal,greens, monster raving loony.
Who cares as long as it is our own government.
Sturgeon’s SNP are devolutionists. She hasn’t taken one step towards independence in the eight years she’s been in charge. They’re all too happy with the well paid jobs they have in Westminster and Holyrood to upset the apple cart.
https://youtu.be/BiCxqMtT2ac