And remember, ‘B’ is for Brexit. Ok, and also ‘bollox’, just by the way. And bastards. And, if you’re really dyslexic, B is also for headless chickens, tossers and morons.

So we’re leaving Europe. And we’ve triggered ‘article 50’, our intention to leave those garlic-eating, bottom-pinching, jack-boot strutting bunch of ultra-bureaucrats and go it alone. Yes, we don’t need them. Them and their terrible rules and unlimited free-loading immigrants. We’d rather trade with Saudi Arabia. Good, decent people.

But leaving Europe is not like leaving a party. Kiss the host and walk out with a bottle of booze under your coat. No. Leaving Europe is immensely difficult. Because we need to sort out terms. The ‘deal’. Which is incredibly, horrendously, it must be said, actually impossibly difficult. So to achieve it by March 2019, the end of the ‘2-year’ negotiation period, never gonna happen. Simply can’t.

Therefore they’re now proposing ‘plan B’. Well, the CBI proposed it and you can’t say its not logical. As of March 2019 we will have ‘left the European Union’. But what we’ll do is stay acting as if we’re still part of it until the deal is finalised (2037? 2142??) So we’ll continue to trade freely, we’ll continue to allow the French to come to London, we’ll keep our Polish builders, we’ll pay our due fees and… well, we’ll basically stay in Europe. But won’t be a member. So we don’t get voting rights and stuff, cos we’re not a member.

Of course, the 27 member states have to agree to this suggestion, which is widely viewed as a ‘good idea’, and that alone could take 4 years. Maybe 6. Who fucking knows?

Donald Trump made a great speech yesterday and, for once, it went down really well. No protests, no marches against him, even Melania looked happy. Relatively. The speech was in Warsaw, Poland, and the crowd resembled the Neuremberg Rally in 1934 but wearing white t-shirts. Cos it was hot. The flag-wavers were exclusively white, right-wing and probably totally racist. The genetic and cultural descendants of those who chased my grand-parents out of Poland 100 years ago. They chanted Trump’s name, over and over. Their hero. Not a pretty sight. Neither Trump nor that crowd.

Happy Friday

A xxxx