Yesterday, May 22, 2019, I watched UK Prime Minister Theresa May deliver a speech to Parliament, which outlined ten changes she and her ‘government’ were prepared to make to the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which needs to be passed by Parliament before Mrs May can sign the bit of paper that means bye-bye EU.

Now, everything is politically motivated.  The Conservative Party, the party currently in government here, are doing really, really badly in the opinion polls at the moment, so it is no coincidence that this speech was delivered on the day before the country votes in the European Elections.  Hmmm… I’ve said for many years politics is show business; and it is.  It’s all about making sure that viewers get to see them doing stuff just at the right moment so that they change their minds and vote for them, whoever them may be.

So, these statements, and the timing of them, is not about Government doing something, it is about Government being seen to be doing something.

Mrs May, her policy advisors, her civil servants, indeed her cabinet, must all be smoking crack or something.  She really seems to believe she can unite the country with this shit, and if you’re looking for evidence that Mrs May’s delusion was now to the point of requiring medical intervention, you do not need to look any further than this speech and its contents, in which she kept referring to ‘deliver the change the British people so clearly demanded.‘

They did?

That clarity of demand came from 1.9% of the 33 or so million people that voted!  That’s roughly 600,000 people, out of a total population of 66 million.  That is how clear it was, Mrs May.  If the demand was so clear, why would there be any argument?  Why would there be calls left, right & centre for a second referendum, if it was so clear a demand from the British people?

The answer is that Mrs May, and our political class, whatever their party or political colours, will basically say and do whatever it takes to keep themselves riding the gravy train that is politics in the United Kingdom – indeed, in many so-called ‘democracies’ – around the world today.  That doesn’t sound very technical, political, or come from any sense of deep thought or clever analysis, but that’s the truth of it.  They’ll just say anything to keep themselves getting nice and rich.

I doubt citizens of many countries in the world care that much about Brexit, other than perhaps watching it from a safe distance and offering a wry chuckle as they witness the United Kingdom, once the proud lioness as she ruled an Empire that stretched from here to New Zealand, that soon changed its name to a Commonwealth, now imploding into a pool of its own sick, red-nosed and drunk, muttering something about losing their keys and forgetting the way home.

Yesterday’s speech by Mrs May is being seen here in the UK as something of a last-chance saloon, a final attempt at making her vision of Brexit stick, before the vultures that are already circling in the air around her fast-dying political corpse, swoop down and start picking away at it until there is nothing left but bare bones, lying in the desert still banging on about delivering the will of the British people.

The only reason Mrs May is still Prime Minister today is because she resolutely refuses to quit; they’re going to have to drag her kicking and screaming from Number 10 Downing Street, London SW1.  But, count your blessings; as long as that idiot holds the keys to No.10, us Remainers will have our way and Brexit will never be delivered.  By rights, she really, really, really ought to go, but as long as she is there, there is some glimmer of hope; who knows, we might even get that second referendum out of it?  Although I doubt it.  I have history when it comes to political predictions; I predicted that Leave would be heavily defeated in the Referendum, and that Donald J. Trump will never be President of the United States.

Because the alternative for us in Britain to Theresa May is really very scary.

The alternative is called Boris Johnson, or BloJo as I like to refer to him, because the moment he is given the keys to No.10, he’ll have his chops around Donald J. Chump’s charlie so quick it’ll make your teeth chatter.  Indeed, as a holder of both a UK and US passport (he was born in the USA…), he could, in theory at least, become a candidate for the US Presidency as well – a true Illuminati Globalist World Leader.

And Johnson will attempt to deliver his own vision of Brexit.  Johnson wants what they call a ‘hard’ Brexit – a snap withdrawal, no deals, no trade agreements, nothing that will tie us to the EU in any way, kick out Johnny Foreigner back to the country they came from, especially the European ones for now, and, in another Trump-like move, build a wall – a psychological one in our case, but who knows? – right round the coastline of the United Kingdom, no matter how many peace agreements that rips up.

For now, it will mean that both the United Kingdom and the United States of America will be ruled by ginger lunatics.  Both want to pick up their respective balls and take them home to play with on their own.  Both want to destroy the values enshrined in their constitutions that made their countries great, even if it means using those very same constitutions as justification for their very unconstitutional acts.

But back to Britain.  What of our opposition, the Labour Party, led since 2015 by Mr Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North or somewhere like that.  He is true dyed-in-the-wool Labour, espousing its traditional values of fairness and equality, that I have held dear for many, many years.  Indeed, when he was elected in one of the most surprising results I have ever known in any election, I joined the bandwagon and believed him to be the great white hope for Labour which, under the multi pronged attack of Blair, Brown and their clones, had moved to the ‘centre’ of politics, changing their many principles simply to stay elected.

Surely Mr Corbyn, with the might of the Labour Party behind him, can slay the Prime Minister and her ridiculous plans for ‘compromise’ on Brexit, and send her to the back benches where she belongs.

No, he can’t, and don’t call me Shirley.

The Conservatives reached out across the political divide and offered to talk to the Labour Party to see if they could find some sort of level of agreement.  Mr Corbyn agreed, they talked for six weeks, then the Leader of the Opposition chose to end it one day last week, no reason given other than they weren’t getting anywhere, and he was effectively bored with them.  Oh right, OK then…

Mr Corbyn keeps demanding a General Election because Labour will beat the Tories, form the next Government and deliver the Brexit that the British people supposedly so clearly wanted.  First off, he too is deluded, the smoke from Mrs May’s crack* must have wafted across the Commons chamber, if he thinks that Labour could beat the Conservatives in what they both want to be a two-party system.

If the country thinks anything like I do, they do not want either the Conservatives or Labour in the driving seat, especially where Brexit is concerned.  They want a new kind of politics, and unfortunately that seems to be appearing in the shape of one of the most detested men in the history of British politics: Nigel Farage.

Farage formed a new party, the Brexit Party (guess what they want?), just a few short weeks ago, some say from questionable funding but I don’t know about that, and already that party shot to 27% of the vote in a recent poll (YouGov last week sometime).  That’s over a quarter of the electorate in about three weeks!  Nothing like that has happened, to my knowledge, among the political class in my lifetime.

In truth, we shouldn’t be fighting these elections.  The Referendum was in June 2016, Article 50 triggered in March 2017, and we were supposed to have left the EU in March 2019, but the EU granted us an extension until October 31.  Mrs May still wanted us to leave earlier than that, so we did not need to fight these elections.  But, she has failed in every single aspect of the Brexit negotiations.  What the hell were the Conservatives thinking when they elected an openly Remain politician to negotiate and lead us out of the European Union?

So, broadly speaking, the situation is this: Mrs May and her government are supposed to be delivering Brexit, but they never will, because her own party – the one Mr David Cameron wanted to unite by holding this referendum in the first instance – is completely divided, as it always was over Europe, and as it always will be.  Really, as long as Mrs May is in charge, I would dare to predict (see above) that we have no chance of leaving the EU.

However, from a political standpoint, Mr Corbyn should be offering opposition to Brexit, but he is not; he is simply and very weakly proposing a different way to do the same thing; get themselves elected to power.

And don’t get me started on the Liberal Democrats… they slept with Mr Cameron in a coalition because in the 2010 General Election, Cameron could not command a majority, and they facilitated all of the government’s actions against the people of Britain, especially those in a lower income bracket.  The destruction of the NHS in 2012?  The failure to get rid of students’ tuition fees?  Remember those?

For me, the only party that can establish and sustain not only opposition to Brexit, but also a cleaner and healthier environment in which to live, is of course the Green Party.  In the European Election constituencies, I believe most, if not all, have Green candidates.  In our area, the Greens already have someone sitting in the European Parliament, and I know that there are several more in other parts of the country.  The Greens aren’t perfect, nobody is; but of all political parties, they will do their very best to stick to the core values that I believe in such as honesty and decency in politics, or die tryin’.

To sum up: Brexit is not happening, and it has no opposition anyway.

Isn’t that a unique place to be in for a country under a Prime Minister who promised ‘strong and stable leadership’?  Isn’t this a unique time in British political life, where a country narrowly voted to leave the EU but cannot agree on how to do it, and there is no opposition to it anyway?  When was the last time a Government imploded, and its main opposition imploded at the same time?  Three years, it’s taken, three bloody years to get us into a state of seemingly terminal chaos.

This is why I believe a Second Referendum will be democratic.  It will say to the Government, sort this mess out.  This is what we want.  I believe the next referendum will be much more decisive, I hope, and clearly a required majority of, say, two thirds either way will make sure that, whichever way it goes, the Government will be carrying out what it says will be the Will of the British People, instead of this chaotic mess, which will never be corrected as long as the same old faeces – sorry, faces, keep popping in and out of No.10 Downing Street, for those all-important ‘Cabinet meetings.’

But not Boris Johnson, or any of his ilk, and definitely not Nigel Farage.  These kinds of discussions, in which nobody has a single clue what to do, should never have happened at all; the fact that they are is because previous PM David Cameron arrogantly assumed he would win.  Even if they were to happen, they should have done so three years ago – not way past the original deadline that was agreed by Parliament, one of the few things that were.

So, let us have that Second Referendum, and vote once and for all that Remaining in the EU is the only way to keep the United Kingdom together, not to reinvoke the troubles in Northern Ireland, and to keep the UK trading happily with its European partners, enjoying freedom of movement (don’t forget, inasmuch as you don’t want foreigners coming over here and taking our jobs, the same will happen to you the other way around.  What if you want to retire to Spain after working and paying your taxes for all those years?  Sorry mate, you can’t.  What if you want to pop over to Italy for a quick break as you work hard and pay your taxes?  Sorry mate, you can, but you’ll need to apply for a visa.  My sense is that, if Brexit were to happen, other EU nations would fall to the temptation to give the UK and its citizens an unnecessarily hard time, just because they can.

I want that Second Referendum because I want to Remain in the EU and I want to be able to prove that the majority of the UK want it, too.  Of course, it could go the other way which, as long as it is achieved via a fair and democratic vote, I will accept because I am a law-abiding citizen, but I will also campaign against because free speech is important to me also, as is the fundamental position of staying in the EU.

Thank you so much for reading this long and rambling diatribe, I repeat myself, I am not a great writer, and I repeat myself.  But thank you so much, dear reader(s), for my taking so much of your time. x

* Having read this sentence back to myself, it induced involuntary laughter which I then had to explain to my dear wife… it reads pretty disgustingly, it’s true, but it was meant to pertain to a drug reference I made earlier…honest…