May-Hem
It's been a while since I wrote a blog about politics - one reason for this is that, as I've noted previously, by the time I've got my head around what happened, something else absurd has hogged the spotlight, rendering my initial observations moot. It's been another one of *those* weeks in Parliament, hasn't it? And it's only half-way through the week!
MayBot Speech
Theresa May stood outside Number 10 last night and gave, what could politely be called a speech - the MayBot had obviously been rebooted and needed to re-run her basic programming: a cobbled together mish-mash of her most irritating cliches; platitudes and pleas to "come together" while placating only half of the country; sloganeering and spouting meaningless, banal expressions, intended to make her look ministerial - succeeding only in making her look hopelessly entrenched, out of touch, and desperate.
"Get On With It"
Another phrase that sets my teeth on edge - news reporters have been capering gleefully about the country this week, interviewing anyone who will consent to have a fluffy microphone waved in their faces. One statement that has jumped out as particularly irritating is the "It's been going on too long" complaint: no, it's been going on for exactly the amount of time that we were told it would - two years from the date of the Article 50 notice. As I wrote in my previous blog, it's perhaps not the length of time that people are annoyed about: it's the fact that precisely nothing has been achieved in that span.
Confidence
Oh heavens; the mother of all parliaments experiencing the mother of all benders as the people charged with running the flipping country have been found in contempt of the institution they serve; and Mrs May finds herself surviving a no-confidence vote yet managing, in her glitchy programming, to interpret this as a huge win for her.
Then, according to the MayBot, "the 'people' want us to 'get on' with 'delivering Brexit'" (inverted commas there for cliche emphasis) yet she delayed the vote on her deal when it became obvious it couldn't win - solidifying the opposition against her deal, so that when she was forced to hold the vote, it didn't win, thereby wasting three weeks of limited time.
The so-called leader of the so-called opposition then tabled a motion of no-confidence against the government, despite being told it wouldn't win through; thus wasting another day in which we were treated (?) once more to the unedifying spectacle of our elected leaders yah-booing at one another, throwing insults, yelling and gesticulating unnecessarily across the playground... sorry, Commons - as they supposedly made some sort of political point.
I don't really know how to conclude this blog - very Brexity of me, I know... I tried to sum up my frustration in a post I put on Facebook a few weeks ago, so I'll finish with that:
MayBot Speech
Theresa May stood outside Number 10 last night and gave, what could politely be called a speech - the MayBot had obviously been rebooted and needed to re-run her basic programming: a cobbled together mish-mash of her most irritating cliches; platitudes and pleas to "come together" while placating only half of the country; sloganeering and spouting meaningless, banal expressions, intended to make her look ministerial - succeeding only in making her look hopelessly entrenched, out of touch, and desperate.
Image Source: guernseyliteraryfestival.com
"Get On With It"
Another phrase that sets my teeth on edge - news reporters have been capering gleefully about the country this week, interviewing anyone who will consent to have a fluffy microphone waved in their faces. One statement that has jumped out as particularly irritating is the "It's been going on too long" complaint: no, it's been going on for exactly the amount of time that we were told it would - two years from the date of the Article 50 notice. As I wrote in my previous blog, it's perhaps not the length of time that people are annoyed about: it's the fact that precisely nothing has been achieved in that span.
Confidence
Oh heavens; the mother of all parliaments experiencing the mother of all benders as the people charged with running the flipping country have been found in contempt of the institution they serve; and Mrs May finds herself surviving a no-confidence vote yet managing, in her glitchy programming, to interpret this as a huge win for her.
Then, according to the MayBot, "the 'people' want us to 'get on' with 'delivering Brexit'" (inverted commas there for cliche emphasis) yet she delayed the vote on her deal when it became obvious it couldn't win - solidifying the opposition against her deal, so that when she was forced to hold the vote, it didn't win, thereby wasting three weeks of limited time.
The so-called leader of the so-called opposition then tabled a motion of no-confidence against the government, despite being told it wouldn't win through; thus wasting another day in which we were treated (?) once more to the unedifying spectacle of our elected leaders yah-booing at one another, throwing insults, yelling and gesticulating unnecessarily across the playground... sorry, Commons - as they supposedly made some sort of political point.
Image Source: theguardian.com
"This whole thing is just a game for the Tories isn’t it? They’re playing with peoples lives and livelihoods in order to facilitate some facile internal squabble, and they’re willing to tear the country apart just so that a handful of them can avoid the new tax legislation that’s being introduced in Europe next year.
Brexit is an expensive and destructive distraction - a set of shiny keys that the Tory party can shake to avoid dealing with the actual social and economic dissatisfaction and investigating issues that may have led to the vote in the first place. For example; the UN recently declared that poverty in the UK is at the level of a humanitarian crisis, and still the cartoon characters who are supposed to be in charge spout meaningless sound bites ad nauseam and are rich and insulated enough to completely ignore reality.
I do actually believe people who voted Leave when they say “we know what we voted for” but the problem is that there are as many different reasons and interpretations of ‘Leave’ as there were voters. What I don’t understand is how people can say that they’re certain of what ‘Leave’ means, when those who were supposed to be organising the damned thing can’t even agree amongst themselves, and the architects of the issue have all retreated underneath their rocks, emerging only to spout bile back at the ones who are desperately trying to clean up their mess.
The thing is that our parliament was *always* sovereign; we could always control our own laws and protect our borders; the Tories just couldn’t be arsed to actually implement anything properly. There are no “unelected” representatives in the EU Parliament: we vote for our MEP’s in the same way that people in Poland or Italy do - in the same way that we vote for our home MP’s. I didn’t vote for the MP for Plymouth, but it doesn’t mean they’re “unelected”, it just means they weren’t elected directly by me. Just because you didn’t vote in the European Parliament elections doesn’t mean it’s undemocratic, Sheila. I didn’t vote for bloody May to be Prime minister - the Tory party did that, and we’re just stuck with it.
We’re not in Schengen, we’re not part of the Euro - we literally have the best damn deal in the whole of the EU trading area, and the money and benefits we get back from various organisations within massively outweigh any money we might contribute. There is no deal better than the deal we currently have. The Tory party needs to grow the fuck up and stop being such entitled twats, and this whole farce needs to be stopped so we can concentrate on the things that are *actually* affecting our country, rather than inventing a European bogeyman to tell scary stories about.
And there’s no such thing as unicorns"
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