Ok – I know – after last week you will be wondering
if this is my bad new habit of conflating words to make more madness – though in
this case ‘Cheqsit (the exit of the Chequers non-starter deal) it could be argued that it is a conflation of three words as Brexit is already Britain’s exit – in case
you’d lost the thread. I promise I won’t adopt this annoying habit (annabit?)
I mention Chequers in passing in a letter published in The Independent in early July.
It concerns the general nonsense perpetrated on the
UK and US by the current appalling rag tag of degenerate, half-baked, abysmal,
incompetent, venal, blinkered ‘leaders’. In among my mini rant about the smoke and mirrors folk
are being subjected to on both sides of the Atlantic, I allude to the Chequers
deal brokered by our broken government. I say it is a deal the EU will not
agree to. I said this as soon as the basic details were public because it was
obvious, clear, apparent the EU would not cross its well-known red lines for a
country that was trying to be the wrecking ball of 40 years of passably good
relations, peace and substantial trade benefits.
Here is a handy summary of the Chequers deal
if it’s all spaghetti to you - https://www.ecnmy.org/engage/chequers-proposal-explained/
And yes – I know that Cameron left Theresa May
holding as stinking pile of entrails when he existed stage left pursued by his own inadequacy but dear lord – why does she constantly keep trying to serve it up
to us as if its best steak?
Why did the people supposedly ‘in the know’ the ones
running the UK, the people who are steering this badly listing vessel we call Britain
– have to wait until the arse end of September to be told, at Salzburg, that Chequers was entirely
unworkable/unacceptable on any reading of the broadest understanding of the EU
rules? It was so so so evident
In the past on this blog I’ve pointed out, in a
rather depressed way, when things seemed patently predictable like that Ed
Miliband would NOT win the 2015 general election.
Ed Miliband subsequently lost that General Election. That seemed to have
come as a surprise to people with far more info at their fingertips than me –
the UK media – the Westminster commentators blah blah blah.
And talking of that utterly depressing subject – the
total failure of opposition which we can
call Jexit – Jeremy Corbyn’s exit from reality – why is Labour not light years
ahead in the polls when the Tories are making such a monumental mess of
absolutely everything? One simple answer there – Corbyn. But somehow that is not to be admitted either.
Everyone with a political pulse knew Chequers
was a non-starter. The Chequers’ nag keeled over in the stable but the owners
were still placing bets.
Everyone knew.
EVERYONE KNEW
Everyone
Knew
Help!
Au secours…
Hilfe