What the f***!!! is going on? Not only has America fallen upon itself in an unprecedented wave of hateful slagging off in a presidential run-up, making a farce of both the 2 candidates and the whole process itself, but also here! In Britain!!! Wonderful, conservative, subdued, almost anally retentive Britain.

The judges decided on Thursday that THE LAW STATES that Brexit must be passed by Parliament before it can be implemented. It was not a statement of what those judges personally wanted, nor a comment on the farce that was our own referendum. It was just their interpretation of the law. The implications of their decision was not considered, in that context. They’re judges, they know the law and they apply that in their judgments.

So I fully expected the Sun and the Mail to attack those judges; they are there to provide sensationalism and reactionary outpourings, particularly when those papers’ own views are opposed. Because newspapers are run by tossers for other tossers to read. Particularly those newspapers.

But when the government joins in those attacks, that’s very different. That’s nasty. That’s fascism. That’s so bad its Trumpish. He too is prepared only to accept democratic and legal validity when he wins by it.

So half the Conservatives, the Leavers, obviously, are now questioning a legal decision, which is fine, but also the motives by the judges for stating them, which is really not fine. Not fine at all.

Half the problem is that this government is exceedingly light in the legal world. It has a Lord Chancellor who has no legal experience at all. And a lightweight attorney general (if you can name Jeremy Wright there’s a free Curly Wurly on offer… ooops) who was appointed as a QC two years after he actually stopped practicing law. Because you have to be a ‘silk’ to be in that office. He then took his youthful inexperience (in criminal law) to the High Court (not criminal), to clash wigs with David Pannick, probably the best civil advocate in the country, if not the world.

To question the integrity of our judiciary is seriously unworthy and grossly ignorant. For the government to do this is quite frankly unforgivable.

The judges were not saying ‘you can’t Brexit’, they were just saying how, legally, it HAS to be done. By parliament.

You don’t shoot the messenger. Unless you’re a tosser, or one of the Prime Minister’s inner circle, apparently.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx