Boris Johnson is a self-entitled criminal.  That’s official.  OK, that’s not quite official, and I have been informed that committing an unlawful act does not automatically make one a criminal.  I could drop a crisp packet on the ground outside, and I’ve acted unlawfully, but I wouldn’t expect to be called a criminal after that.  But does BloJo’s actions compare to dropping a crisp packet, or is it slightly more serious?  In a political context, at least?

The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom ruled about forty minutes ago that the Prime Minister acted unlawfully when he advised the Queen to suspend or prorogue, Parliament.

How can the prime minister, the government, ask sixty-five million people to respect the law, when the highest-level court in the United Kingdom has just told him that he acted outside the law with the simple motive of getting his own way?

Basically, this court decision is all that BBC News can think about; it’s hardly surprising, since not only did the Supreme Court rule against the prime minister, but gave him both barrels, so to speak.  Their ruling was unprecedented in its level of criticism of his actions.  They stopped short of calling him a criminal, but said that his decision to suspend Parliament was ‘unlawful.’  They informed MPs to act as though the prorogation never happened.

If the action was ‘unlawful,’ what other conclusion is there to draw than he must resign.  He has been found guilty of an unlawful act.  In any other area of our society, that would make his job untenable.  In any other area of our society, he would be ordered to leave his job.  As prime minister, the scale and severity of the judgement, not to mention the judgement itself, means that there is no way he can carry on with any degree of authority whatsoever.

There has never been a judgement like this in my lifetime; indeed, those with a greater knowledge of history than I have already said that a judgement like this against a sitting prime minister has never been made before.  We live in momentous times.

But what has not yet been talked about in the sheer chaos that is the news in Britain at the moment, is that not only did the prime minister lie to the Queen, but he lied to the country as well.

Our country has just been turned on its head, ladies and gentlemen; this judgement was not about Brexit, it was simply a legal decision on whether or not it was right to close Parliament for five weeks.  But since Brexit is undoubtedly the reason why BloJo shut Parliament down, obviously it is relevant to the debate.

Some are already arguing that this decision has divided the country further than it already was.  Leavers are saying that it has ended what democracy was left; Remainers are jumping up and down and calling it a victory for democracy.  It’s up to you who you believe, but my view is that democracy did indeed receive a massive boost today.

Boris Johnson may not and perhaps should not receive criminal charges for this, but at the very least, he and his government have got to go, and the MPs he kicked out for daring to disagree with him must be returned to office.

There has never been a decision like this in the history of our country since the English Civil War.  Therefore it is a little difficult to gauge what the solution will be, but I would have thought that a second referendum, in which a majority of the electorate must be achieved, either way, would be the way forward to end this craziness.  Most people around the world are, I would imagine, sick of it, I know we are in this country.  A general election would not solve this crisis, merely prolong it.  Surely Leavers are not afraid of a second vote if they are so confident of winning.  If two-thirds of the electorate vote Leave, so be it, I – as a member of a democratic society – will abide by it.  But remember, the referendum is an opinion poll and not a democratic vote, so a government saying they will abide by it and then not doing so, while I admit it is fucking annoying, is not a criminal action either.  You can argue that your MP is not representing you, in which case a general election would then be the way forward if you want to vote him or her out of office.  These are simply my views of a way out of the worst constitutional and political crisis of my lifetime. x

Here in the United Kingdom, I think the title pretty much sums it up.  Unlike some, I don’t compare Boris Johnson to Adolf Hitler, despite the fact that we have moved into a temporary dictatorship after the prime minister closed down parliament last week in order to stop any further debate on Brexit.

This means that BloJo has put himself above the law.  Apparently, the world believes that the Scottish High Court is going to overturn the ruling that the prorogation of parliament was illegal and make it all hunky-dory for the PM again.  Quite why the rather disparate band of rebel MPs had to go to Scotland to do it is unknown to me; perhaps they realised that the English High Court no longer had any authority over Johnson.

Power, they say, is a drug.  It can influence the thinking of even bumbling idiots like Boris Johnson – or, more particularly, like that despicable little brainfart Dominic Cummings, whose whisperings into the PM’s ears about genetics and power over what they can get away with are having such a ready effect on BloJo’s actions because Johnson is too stupid to even think them through.

I know that both of my American audience can readily identify with this; they, too, have a ginger twat for a leader, in the shape of Donald J. Stump, the greatest moron ever to disgrace that great office.  He makes George W. Bush look like President Kennedy, and that’s saying something.

It is 2019, dear reader(s), and we have been very fortunate in the ‘Western World’ these past 74 years, since the end of World War Two in 1945, and the death of that German dictator already mentioned above.

We have not been so unlucky as to have a dictator on that scale here in Europe, and neither has the United States of America.  Other countries, Zimbabwe, Chile, Argentina, North Korea, Russia, etc., have all been run by dictatorships at one time or another.  Yes, I know Russia is theoretically in Europe.  As was Poland.  OK, I’ll give you Poland.

We don’t need reminding that 2016 was a tumultuous year; politics in our country, in the USA, and indeed in other countries across the world have moved unequivocally and dangerously to what the media likes to call, ‘the hard right.’

By chance, the Brexit Referendum (June) and Trump’s election as president (November) both occurred in the same year.  The worst factor, for me, of Trump’s election was the fact that had he lost, to Hillary Clinton, the likelihood is that she would probably have been just as bad.

Back in the days when I used to rant regularly on Facebook, I was addressing this topic almost on a daily basis.  Politicians could get away with whatever they wanted.  The media would scream about it for a while, and yes, public opinion might turn one way or the other depending on what these powerful media outlets were telling them, but it would soon go away, and all would be quiet again.  I’ll give you an example from British politics: the Expenses Scandal.

For the benefit of whichever one of you two doesn’t know, I’ll give you a brief summary.

Once, on an episode of Question Time (BBC political discussion show), then-Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles claimed quite openly and boldly that he often claimed for things he shouldn’t do, like personal improvements to his second home, non-Westminster trips, and even maintaining a flat in London despite living just a few miles away anyway.

Ay ay, I thought, there’s going to be trouble here, and there was.  Soon, MPs were being ordered to release their expenses claims for public scrutiny (I believe the Sunday Times had already done an exposé on somebody’s expenses claims).  They made for interesting reading.  One MP claimed for a 42″ plasma TV in his home.  George Osborne, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, famously flipped homes, made his second home his first, despite it being in Yorkshire or somewhere, and then sold it, making a profit of £500,000 (about $550,000 then, I think).

When I was working, I was never able to claim for my travel to and from work, I wish I had.  But, apparently, MPs can, because their job is oh, so hard.

But, as I mentioned earlier, while the scandal has never truly gone away, it has died down, and I’ll bet there are many MPs still on the take, although admittedly perhaps not as many as there were before.

So, Boris Johnson is taking a load of flak for the moment, but how long will it go on for?  Will it cost him his job?  And if it does, who will replace him?  Jeremy C***?  Please.  Or will Johnson’s dictatorial shenanigans die down in the media, past October 31, and we’ll all just sit back on our popcorn-strewn sofas and watch the Strictly Come Dancing results show?

We need a Second Referendum, or a people’s vote, now!  And, the majority must be at least 66% either way.  Not simply because that’s the only way Remain will get a victory (as things stood at the last referendum, they wouldn’t, anyway), but because with an issue that everyone is this sensitive about, we must have a clear majority either way.

If that majority is not achieved for either side, then another vote will be required.  It’s a very tedious approach, I agree, but the only way that one side or the other can claim a moral and political victory.  And even then, the government is not legally bound to abide by it.  Don’t bang on to me about a lack of democracy.  The Prime Minister can demand – and get – a second vote on a snap election (he lost that, too), and we can’t have a second opinion poll on Brexit because it is undemocratic?  Give me a break. x

While I am by no means a monarchist, I am a respecter of law and order. It is, apparently, against the law to mislead the monarch when pressing her to make a constitutional decision such as I don’t know, suspend Parliament, for a period of five weeks.

All you’ve got to do, that slimy little maggot Dominic Cummings told our beloved Prime Minister Boris “Don’t Call Me BloJo” Johnson, is tell the Queen that the government needs time to prepare itself for the Queen’s Speech on October 14.

If either of my readers come from outside the UK, the Queen’s Speech is the political event every year in Parliament when the monarch dresses up in her finest regalia, just to highlight the gulf between herself and those surviving on food banks, and she tells the world what ‘her government’ plans to do, in terms of policy, in the coming political year.

It’s all staged showbiz and can change depending upon the procedures that happen in Parliamentary debate that can change these policies, but by and large, that’s what the Government is going to do.

Apparently, the newly-installed Prime Minister Boris Johnson requires five weeks to prepare – the first prime minister in history to do so.  It’s an outright lie, and an attempt – a successful one as it turned out – to pull the wool over the Queen’s eyes.

Imagine the scenario.  The Queen, in her office down at Buckingham Palace in London, asks Boris: “Does one really require five weeks to prepare one’s speech?”  “Yes, your Majesty,” replies Boris, without a hint of conscience.

Boris is plainly lying.  Although Parliament is regularly suspended or prorogued, for a few days before the Queen’s Speech, a break of five weeks or more is unheard of in the United Kingdom for almost fifty years.  And the reason BloJo got it on this occasion was nothing to do with the preparation of policy, it was to stop Parliament debating Brexit.

Boris knew that he could win no argument, and therefore no vote, on reason or logic alone.  His predecessor, Mrs May, could not do it, and there was nothing to suggest that Boris would be able to.  There was no argument, or reason left.  Any Brexit-related vote in the House of Commons would be lost by the government; all because of the problem of the Irish ‘Backstop.’  Johnson doesn’t want the backstop; he would prefer a hard border between North and South Ireland, thereby tearing up the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the one good thing that Tony Blair signed (although most of the work was done by John Major and his government), and most likely reigniting violent conflict between rival paramilitary groups, resulting in death and injury for many innocent people in Ireland and mainland Britain.

This is Boris’ Birthday Party; we’re all going to have party games, yay!  Oh, except Boris isn’t good enough at them to win those games, so he’s going to cancel them all and claim he won them.

Just as the removal men were rolling up outside No.10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s traditional London home, Boris was standing at the podium, outside the front door, presidentially telling the British people that he was going to get their country out of the European Union on October 31 come hell or high water. No ifs or buts, by November 1, we would be a former EU Nation.  An ex-EU nation.  An EU nation that had ceased to be.   Ah, the parrot sketch…

No sooner had BJ sat down in the Prime Minister’s seat in the House of Commons than he began losing votes.  As I write, the Prime Minister has lost six Parliamentary votes.  His Lose-Win ratio at the moment is, I believe 6-0.  Boris failed in his bid to prevent an opposition Bill being passed into law which prevented a no-deal Brexit on October 31.  This bill was passed the day Parliament was prorogued.  The opposition demanded to see the paperwork concerning ‘Operation Yellowhammer’, which is a doomsday scenario in case the very worst should happen after Brexit: you know, food shortages, riots, violence, murder on the streets, disease, all that good stuff.  The government, of course, don’t believe that will happen but still want to show they are preparing for it; the opposition sees it as secretly planning for the inevitable. Anyway, Boris lost that vote, too.  He’s got to show all the government’s paperwork on it.

The opposition wanted Boris to show all his secret messages between himself and that little rat Dominic Cummings, Boris said no.  He lost that vote, too.

Finally, BloJo, in a fit of pique having lost the no-deal Brexit vote (although still an entirely predictable move), tabled a motion to call a snap general election.  The opposition, the Labour Party, abstained from voting, meaning that the Conservative government did not get the required two-thirds majority of the House under the terms of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act.  Boris lost that vote.  A few days later, Boris tried again; because after all, a second vote is the entirely democratic thing to do, is it not?  The Labour Party and the others in opposition vetoed the vote, and Boris lost again.

Boris has morphed from a bumbling idiot into unpleasant demagogue because of the actions of one man: that squirmy little weasel Dominic Cummings.

He is the Iago whispering into Othello’s ear; the Desdemona to Boris’ Macbeth.  If a couple of rather obvious Shakespearian references don’t do it for you, then how about this: he is Heinrich Himmler to Johnson’s Hitler.  There, that should do it for you.  I’ve seen many comparisons between Johnson and Hitler online recently, it’s really a route one, I-IV-V rock ‘n’ roll chord progression comparison to make, and I don’t agree with it, but there really seems to be nowhere else to go if you want to label Johnson’s actions of the past few weeks.  He has not engaged in ethnic cleansing; but if these online trolls are to be believed, that is to come.

Cameron & Johnson (we’ll ignore Theresa May) are Eton’s revenge on the underclass.  They are Oxbridge taking it out on those who had little education and had to go out and do the menial jobs for low pay – yes, work for a living.

I just cannot believe that the 17m who put their cross next to ‘Leave’ on June 23, 2016, voted for all of this; they really believed themselves to be the voice of the nation the following morning, and right up until now, when that number constitutes roughly one quarter of the population of the United Kingdom.  Over 29m voters did not vote to Leave.  If they had wanted to leave, they would have got off their arses and voted.  If any of you two are on the ‘Leave’ side, and you think I am claiming apathy for Remain, you’re damn straight I am, because the point is that the 17m Leave voters are not the voice of the nation.  We still don’t know what the nation thinks.

We need a second referendum because the country was not ready for the first one.  It was hastily and confusingly organised, lies were said probably on both sides, and the result was too close to call on an issue as important as this which has polarised the nation and dominated its politics and indeed thought for the last three and a bit years.  Scotland will most likely take a second referendum on secession from the United Kingdom, and then where will we be?  Boris Johnson demanded – and got – a second vote in Parliament for a snap election last week, so how come a second referendum is undemocratic?  And that was a matter of law, so talk about ignoring the will of the House of Commons!  A referendum, indeed the referendum, was just an opinion poll, there was no obligation to pass it into law, only a rash promise made by David Cameron.  And we already knew what to make of his promises.  The Leave side never believed Cameron, never trusted him, but oh yes, because he said they were going to abide by the result, whichever way it went, then he must have been telling the truth!

A referendum like this must have, I believe, a two-thirds majority at least.  If it remains deadlocked at 50-50, then we stay in the EU.  The EU themselves are fed up with the UK’s years of dithering.  It’s a political – national! – embarrassment.  And Boris Johnson’s shenanigans in Parliament have made things a whole lot worse.  Once October 31 has been and gone, we can then call a General Election and sling Johnson out of office, and probably in prison – he broke the law by misleading the monarch.  And that’s just the start. x

This seems to have been the reaction of most people as they either watched the explosive events that took place in Britain’s House of Commons last evening or perhaps had it explained to them down the pub.

The problem is that it is practically impossible to give a clear and precise explanation of those events, even if you are not terminally verbose, as I am.

I’m really just going to repeat what most people know already simply to get my own head around it, as I know that both of you are intelligent enough to understand what went on, what is going on and what will go on.

For those who don’t yet know, however, just let me state for the record that our prime minister is now Boris Johnson, a.k.a. “BloJo”, “BoZo”, or whatever you want to call him.

Personally, I think this man had ambitions for the top job right from the word go; that is, before he became an M.P. the first time around, back in 2001.  He ducked out of Parliament for eight years, in the meantime becoming Mayor of London, but was back in Westminster in 2015, even before his tenure as mayor of the U.K.’s capital city had ended.

Brexit gave him the opportunity he needed to become prime minister.  His position on it has never changed, so far as I know.  He wants out of Europe, and he doesn’t appear to care whether there is a deal or not.  If he had to swing one way or the other, he would most likely tell you that he would prefer to leave without a deal.  That way, he could become the puppy dog for his mirror image, Donald J. Trump, or “DoJo”, “DoZo,” or whatever you want to call him.

Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, as you may recall, was a total failure as PM.  I’m sure she’s perfectly wonderful company down at the local wine-tasting evening, but as Prime Minister, she was a non-starter.  First of all, when her predecessor, David Cameron, had his bright idea to hold a referendum on the UK’s position in the European Union, and put it in the Conservative Party’s election manifesto in 2015, Cameron’s position was that he wanted the country to Remain.  (I’m putting “Leave” and ‘Remain” with capital first letters because these were essentially the choices given on the referendum paper itself for voters to decide: Do you want the United Kingdom to Leave or Remain in the European Union?)

The referendum was held the year after the 2015 election – on June 23, 2016, to be precise.  And, like any election, there was a public campaign to try and get voters on their side but there was a slight difference: campaigners for Leave or Remain were not necessarily of the same political party.

As I said, Cameron campaigned for the U.K. to Remain.  Others in the Conservative Party, including Boris Johnson (although he was not yet an MP), campaigned to Leave.  But that was OK, Cameron said, it’s fine to have differences of opinion among party members, as long as when the vote took place and you lose, you must respect the winners’ point of view, and accept the majority verdict.  Generally, referenda are not legally binding; but, as Cameron pointed out, whatever the people’s decision was in the 2016 vote, the government would abide by it.

That turned out to be the most damaging and divisive statement ever constructed in the history of British politics.  Well, since the Civil War of 1642-1651, at least.

Anyway, cast your mind(s) back to the Referendum campaign.  Guess who was one of Mr Cameron’s chief supporters on the Remain side?  That’s right, his home secretary, Mrs Theresa May.

In the early hours of Friday, June 24, 2016, David Cameron got the shock of his life.  By a narrow majority, less than two per cent overall, the United Kingdom had voted to Leave the European Union. Cameron had lost the biggest political challenge he had set himself.

A podium was placed in Downing Street, just outside the Prime Minister’s front door.  Cameron walked out to it, faced the world’s media, and promptly resigned.  It would have to be another Conservative who should lead the party, and the country, through the enormous quagmire of bureaucratic nonsense that would be required once Article 50 – the process by which official departure from the E.U. is triggered – is set in motion.  Presumably, that person would have to be someone who threw their hat into the Leave ring.

Strangely, Boris Johnson did not apply for the job.  He had only just become an MP again the previous year; perhaps he felt it would be too fast a rise, even for him.

Even stranger than that was the name of someone who did apply – that’s right, the former home secretary, Mrs Theresa May.  She of the Remain campaign.  And she wanted to lead us out of the European Union.

Much stranger still was the fact that all the other challengers mysteriously disappeared, and Mrs May got the job by default.  So, here she was, a default prime minister, a proven ~Remainer, leading the British charge (remember Scotland voted overwhelmingly to Remain) out of the EU.

She was charged with not only making sure that the UK left the EU by March 29, 2019, but that we did so with a deal, and that meant making sure we kept up more or less the same trade with the EU, and – most importantly of all – that we kept the borders open between Northern Ireland, still a member of the United Kingdom (they too voted to Remain), and the Republic of Ireland, who were exercising their right as an independent nation to stay in the arms of Europe.  Politicians were, and still are, concerned that to reintroduce a ‘hard border’ between the North & South of Ireland would reignite the “troubles” that had been halted in 1998 by the Good Friday Agreement.

So, no pressure, then.

Remember, this was in July, 2016.  Article 50, which is the article in the EU Treaty (enacted by The Lisbon Treaty) under which nations that have voted to do so can leave the EU, must be triggered first; once that is done, you’ve got two years to get out.  By the way, according to article 50, the Union “…shall negotiate and conclude an agreement with that State, setting out the arrangements for its withdrawal, taking account the framework for its future relationship with the Union.”  In other words, unless you make some sort of an agreement with the European Union, you are breaking the terms of Article 50.

Unfortunately, Mrs May and the best political negotiators in the land could not get an agreement with the European Union.  If you want to know the technical details of all of that, there are several articles on Wikipedia about it; rather than go into the details here, because they are huge, I suggest you read the following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_renegotiation_of_European_Union_membership,_2015%E2%80%9316

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaigning_in_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_campaigning_in_the_2016_EU_referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_vote_in_favour_of_Brexit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_Union#Procedure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_invocation_of_Article_50_of_the_Treaty_on_European_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_negotiations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_negotiations#Negotiation_for_withdrawal_agreement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_negotiations_in_2019

There.  That little lot should keep you both happy.  I’m going to wrap it up there.  It seems ironic that, on the same day that the death is announced of Zimbabwe’s Hitler, Robert Mugabe, that Boris Johnson is beginning to go down that same route, taking the United Kingdom by the scruff of the neck, dragging round the back of the bike shed, and beating it senseless with a spade.  All on the advice of a very nasty man indeed, one Dominic Cummings, who, in a very short space of time, has become infamous for his very, very, very right-wing views.  If you live in the United Kingdom, and it is possible for you to do so, I have one short piece of advice for you: move.

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