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