Well, its good to know that our esteemed government learn from their mistakes. Having totally cocked up Zac Goldsmith’s mayoral campaign by using an endless stream of negativity, doomsday fiction and speculative association to try and impugn the main opposition, that opposition triumphed royally. And still the government maintained that the campaign was a righteous one. Taking cheap shots at ‘the Muslim’ because its so easy to do. Sadiq Khan is a Muslim, let’s invoke images of ISIS, of 9/11 and make him guilty by association. Great idea.

But more than just not learning from this horrendous mistake, they’ve decided to adopt a similar strategy in the in/out Euro debate. Invoking the doomsday scenario.

Cameron has moved from tales of economic woes should we leave Europe, going so far as to have puppet chancellor calculate precisely how much each and every household will have to cough up upon departure, even though no-one has a fucking clue, onto really serious matters.

War.

Europe is the only thing preventing the French going to war with Italy, the Greeks attacking the Dutch, Germany invading everywhere. So, our PM maintains, the risk of war would be greatly increased by our departure. Britain’s security depends upon our continued membership to the EU. If we leave we will be attacked. Nukes will come. Destroying Burnley for the next 50 years (not altogether a bad thing), Milton Keynes levelled, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL BE BORN WITH 3 HEADS AND JUST ONE LEG, WHICH WILL BE ON TOP OF THE MIDDLE HEAD!!!!!

The worst thing about all this is that it is terribly, awfully, horrendously patronising. It says that the government don’t actually trust us with any real, subtle or concrete information, so instead they play to our fears and worries. Just as they did in the mayoral race. “Just put the frighteners on”, they appear to say, “that’ll get them onside in no time”.

Then up steps Boris, the ex-mayor and still current clown-in-chief, to turn the tables and blame the EU for the Russian invasion (call it ‘annexation’, call it ‘intervention’ but its an invasion and nothing less) of the Ukraine. But to show how much he ‘loves Europe’ he sang a song. He sang a fucking German song, in German. Beethoven. Tosser. That’s like me saying that I love Korean food therefore I must be a big fan of Kim Jong Un.

But worst of all is that we DIDN’T WANT A SODDING REFERENDUM. We’re unqualified to make such a decision. And if we were ill informed at the beginning of this mess, we’re way worse off now.

And I’m still undecided.

Happy Tuesday from, currently, inside the EU

A xxxx