Where do I begin to depict the events of the past week. I've actually been putting off writing a post because, if truth be told, I am fed up with Brexit. So fed up. And actually this is what Theresa May is hoping for, that people will now be so bored of it that they will just want the Government to get on with it. Well unfortunately Mrs May, I do not want you to "just get on with it". I want you to stop it.
So after the Government pulled the vote for the disastrous Withdrawal Bill, knowing that it would be defeated catastrophically, Mrs May faced a confidence vote with her own party. I have to say that when faced with danger, she is a survivor. She survived that, with 200 members voting for her, putting paid to the ambitions of Mr Rees Mogg. Then she scurried off to the EU to attempt the impossible and get a legal definition to the infamous backstop. Well guess what, she didn't get a thing. Yet she returned to try and argue the exact opposite, that the EU had given her assurances that the backstop would only ever be used as a temporary measure. It's like she is living in a parallel universe.
I've noticed in the past week how much more febrile is the atmosphere in political interviews, on that silly stand overlooking the Houses of Parliament. On Twitter too. Something is changing. Perhaps it is panic on behalf of the Brexiteers as they finally realise that they have lost the argument and the spectre of a second referndum starts looming. Even that weasal Darren Grimes, live on Sky News, seemed to threaten national violence if another referendum is declared.
Then today, just after the Government declared that a new date for the vote on the Withdrawal Agreement will take place next January, Jeremy Corbyn seemed to finally wake up and announce a vote of no confidence in Mrs May. Only its all pretense. A vote of confidence in her doesn't really matter. He needs to declare on in the Government if he is really pushing for a General Election.
And worst of all I watch BBC News coverage about American politics and the fact that Russia meddled in virtually every social media platform in order to elect Donald Trump. Yet nobody is reporting that it is highly likely that Russia did exactly the same to cause Brexit. Face palm.
So after the Government pulled the vote for the disastrous Withdrawal Bill, knowing that it would be defeated catastrophically, Mrs May faced a confidence vote with her own party. I have to say that when faced with danger, she is a survivor. She survived that, with 200 members voting for her, putting paid to the ambitions of Mr Rees Mogg. Then she scurried off to the EU to attempt the impossible and get a legal definition to the infamous backstop. Well guess what, she didn't get a thing. Yet she returned to try and argue the exact opposite, that the EU had given her assurances that the backstop would only ever be used as a temporary measure. It's like she is living in a parallel universe.
I've noticed in the past week how much more febrile is the atmosphere in political interviews, on that silly stand overlooking the Houses of Parliament. On Twitter too. Something is changing. Perhaps it is panic on behalf of the Brexiteers as they finally realise that they have lost the argument and the spectre of a second referndum starts looming. Even that weasal Darren Grimes, live on Sky News, seemed to threaten national violence if another referendum is declared.
Then today, just after the Government declared that a new date for the vote on the Withdrawal Agreement will take place next January, Jeremy Corbyn seemed to finally wake up and announce a vote of no confidence in Mrs May. Only its all pretense. A vote of confidence in her doesn't really matter. He needs to declare on in the Government if he is really pushing for a General Election.
And worst of all I watch BBC News coverage about American politics and the fact that Russia meddled in virtually every social media platform in order to elect Donald Trump. Yet nobody is reporting that it is highly likely that Russia did exactly the same to cause Brexit. Face palm.
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