do or die. no ifs, no buts
Is it just me, or as Brexit continues to lurch forward to its impending deadline date, does it look more and more likely that Bumble Boris is actually going to do it?
Against all the odds, including the ruling of the supreme court, recalling of parliament, resignation of amongst others, his brother, loss of twenty-three ministers to the whip, allegations of misconduct and a conflict of interest with US businesswoman, Jennifer Arcuri (the then mayor of London’s sessions at her apartment, where a silver dancing pole apparently takes centre stage, were officially diarised as IT lessons), journalist Charlotte Edwardes’ accusation of her squeezed thigh, shocking ‘humbug’ and constant ‘surrender/betrayal’ references and the subsequent disingenuous ‘apology’, his woeful performance of Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show (not to mention James Cleverly on QT or Sajid Javid on Today this morning) I think, no longer needing the DUP for any kind of majority, he’s going to pull-off an almost miraculous coup and deliver a deal. B*gger. Mind, given his deserved reputation as a pathological liar, he really has no alternative but to do so.
Macron has given him the opportunity to show what really exists, Monsieur Juncker believes ‘we can have a deal’, and, on the face of it, even the ice-man Barnier appears to be thawing to the idea. Ideally, BoJo wants to sit it out until after the next EU summit later this month, but the general consensus is he has to show his true colours before then. And I think he will.
The timing will undoubtedly be determined by the only man in the country claiming to be enjoying himself, Dominic Cummings. Having turned the Palace of Westminster into something resembling a meth-addled Hogwarts, the anodyne sound-bite cabinet are now universally on-point, with one minister of the cabal warning there’s going to be a violent, popular uprising if they (parliament) don’t do what he (Cummings?) demands. However, this surely has to be a case of being careful what you wish for?
Firstly, if the tories run a people vs parliament election, they may get elected. But after they’ve ‘got Brexit done’ they, are then the government, and by default in most people’s eyes, the parliament. If you play with fire, you’re likely to get burned. Secondly, consider the future of the tory right post election, specifically a group such as dear Jacob’s European Research Group. Currently obeying the dictates of a non-elected political advisor who has previously described them as a “narcissist-delusional subset, one that should be treated like a metastasising tumour and excised from the UK body politic.” Kowtow to Cummings at your political peril.
The rest of us need, as the Prime Minister said to the pole dancer, to buckle-up, it’s going to be a helluva bumpy ol’ ride. Oooer, madam.
