There’s a new byword in Westminster. A trump card. The ‘joker’. To be deployed by anyone reaching any kind of sticky situation, anyone ‘cornered’, anyone running out of cogent, logical argument. Just throw in the ‘DEMOCRATIC’ card and it reduces the opponents to mere dust. It’s like the smart button on a video game. When all the enemies are lined up to kill you and there’s no-where left to go, hit that button and they all blow up. But in a video game you can only use it once. In Westminster you use it pretty much all the time.

To do anything but leave Europe on 31st October is, according to Boris, ‘undemocratic’. And strictly speaking that is correct. We had a referendum. A pinnacle of democracy. Which told us to leave Europe. So to not do so would be to basically shit on the head of democratic process. To render it useless. Or ‘undemocratic’.

So we have to leave. On Hallowe’en. Oooooohhhh!!

But if we leave without a deal then, according to most remainers and half of everybody else, that is ‘not what “we” voted for’ and hence is undemocratic. Although I reckon a high proportion of ‘leavers’ would take anything to just be out. Because they’re stupid. But I’m not making judgments. Just the ones I have to.

So perhaps we should have a re-vote. The Labour Party option now that Corbyn has finally managed to say something about Brexit, having previously been the only person in the entire country, let alone Westminster, who has consciously avoided all mention of the B-word for the past 2 years.

And a second referendum represents the hyperspace option. In that it is so democratic it becomes totally undemocratic. Hyperspace is the button you push in a total and absolute emergency. It gets you out of trouble but you have no idea which world you come out into.

Donald Trump is democratic. Even though it means something a bit different over there. But he has actually questioned the issue of gun control. Publicly. Though how he can figure out any gun applicant’s mental health status on a 2 page questionnaire, particularly their future status, is a bit beyond a mere mortal like me to understand. However, whatever tiny little suggestion he has made is firstly more than any other such noise made by any other Republican president ever. And secondly is sufficient to have the hateful NRA screaming at him already. Someone in that country must realise that there needs to be a disconnect between the government and the people who make all the guns, in the debate about why thousands of Americans are getting killed by guns every year. Otherwise its just, kind’a, plain stupid.

Tennis in 50 mile-an-hour winds separates the men from… from… from the people with any commons sense.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx