Yesterday I was determined to get an hour of unicycle practice in, but the bloody alarm didn't go off. Got an extra 10 minutes in this morning though.
So, Brexiteers all told us that the German car industry and other, politically powerful European
industries would force Merkel's hand and she'd cave in to our outrageous demands. On the basis if what they preciously said, Brexiteers can therefore no longer maintain the revisionist fiction that they actually voted for a
no-deal.
Having your cake and eating it was just impossible, as Remainers have said since Day 1. The Brexit we were promised by Vote Leave was undeliverable and the Brexit we're getting is the one Brexiteers said would never happen. How do you square that circle? We were promised a state of nirvana outside of the EU, deal or no deal, and now the government is acting like it's on a war footing. £15bn in extra red tape alone, according to a UK government document, and business confidence continues to plummet. Of course, it will be blamed on something else.
Boris Johnson went to the EU with a plan that he knew all along would not be accepted, convinced he could then blame the EU and win a general election, using his army of flying monkeys to support him in gaining a mandate for a further five years.
He has successfully neutered the Brexit party, but at huge cost to the country. Personal ambition has come before Party and Party has come before country. History will vilify him for it. Unless the EU grants an extension and someone else takes over as caretaker PM, we're headed for the international rubbish dump - but, hooray, the Conservative Party has been saved and a serial liar and charlatan is leading the country. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
The problem now is that half the nation is there cheering on a man who, with his thought-free slogans, said the opposite would happen in his referendum campaign - don't those who supportedhim feel let down? I certainly would. Those who voted Leave have been had, in a big way, but watch them bend themselves into all manner of logical contortions to avoid having to admit it.
Having your cake and eating it was just impossible, as Remainers have said since Day 1. The Brexit we were promised by Vote Leave was undeliverable and the Brexit we're getting is the one Brexiteers said would never happen. How do you square that circle? We were promised a state of nirvana outside of the EU, deal or no deal, and now the government is acting like it's on a war footing. £15bn in extra red tape alone, according to a UK government document, and business confidence continues to plummet. Of course, it will be blamed on something else.
Boris Johnson went to the EU with a plan that he knew all along would not be accepted, convinced he could then blame the EU and win a general election, using his army of flying monkeys to support him in gaining a mandate for a further five years.
He has successfully neutered the Brexit party, but at huge cost to the country. Personal ambition has come before Party and Party has come before country. History will vilify him for it. Unless the EU grants an extension and someone else takes over as caretaker PM, we're headed for the international rubbish dump - but, hooray, the Conservative Party has been saved and a serial liar and charlatan is leading the country. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
The problem now is that half the nation is there cheering on a man who, with his thought-free slogans, said the opposite would happen in his referendum campaign - don't those who supportedhim feel let down? I certainly would. Those who voted Leave have been had, in a big way, but watch them bend themselves into all manner of logical contortions to avoid having to admit it.
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