If you think too long about Brexit you simply go insane. Having placed your mentality on a merry-go-round of contradiction, illogicality and total fucking lunacy.

To leave Europe will cost us (and even this is only an estimate) £40billion. In ‘obligations’ to fund stuff we’d already agreed on but won’t (if we do ever leave) get to ‘enjoy’. If we don’t pay that we won’t get ‘the trade deal’. But no-one has actually worked out what the cost to us would be if we don’t get that ‘deal’. Because then it becomes simple maffs: if the cost of our Eurotrading is significantly less than 40 bil then tell Junkers et al to piss off and bully someone else. If its more, then cough up and try not to choke. Sadly, Brexit Minister, David Davies, as we learned yesterday, knows absolutely nuffink about nuffink. Which will help as things progress…

I never wanted to leave Europe and I regret my co-nationalists’ decision more and more with each passing day. We only need to ‘control’ one border, that between Ireland and Ireland and we’re struggling with that. Add in the new, inflated cost of my morning latte when I’m in Europe since the pound plummeted and I’m more convinced than ever that Brexit is ‘the biggest mistake ever’, making it even worse than the Vietnam War or Spurs buying Sergei Rebrov.

I think I’ll leave Britain for good. Move to Jerusalem. Its all the rage now. The American Embassy is doing it, I’ll do it. My move will be slightly less controversial. Other than among my family who might wonder where I am.

Jerusalem is a wonderful place. Bit spiritual for my own personal tastes but historically there’s no other place in the world to compare. Its where 3 major religions call ‘home’. The Western Wall is the most holy site in the world for Jews. The Al Asqa mosque, right next door, is the 2nd most holy site in Islam. And Christians like it too for the Jesus connection and the sheer Old Testimentiness of the whole place. Before 1967 Jerusalem was part of Palestine but after the war it became part of the Israeli occupied territory. This was never ‘recognised’ by the UN or any other inherently anti-semitic institution, even though they had no similar problems with other countries shifting borders in war-time. But Jerusalem has never ‘officially’ been Israel’s capital. It is functionally and in spirit, but no-one has declared it so. Until yesterday.

Yet my first thought was, the same one I have at least four times each day: “is Trump fucking MADDDD????” Because this will inflame yet again the most volatile region in the world. It will cause massive problems in Israel, for Israelis as their ‘neighbours’, already sworn to Israel’s destruction, will doubtless step up terror activities in the region. But once the Pope stepped in to condemn Trump’s intention I thought: ‘if its bad for that horrible Pope, its good for me’. And even though its Trump, another nemesis of virtually every thinking person on the planet, then so be it. I don’t think most people realise, in their concern for ‘the middle East’ that whatever happens, Israel is surrounded by a massive volume of people intent on its demise. Politics, ‘peace’ processes, nothing will change that basic fact.

Happy Thursday Madness,

A xxxx