There are worse outcomes to a vote. You could get none and the opponents 434. You could get 100 and… yeah, ok. But losing a vote in parliament by 230 votes is fairly… significant. Ok, its fucking humongous. Although the result has almost always been something of an inevitability, it was just the magnitude that was to be decided.
Jeremy Corbyn immediately tabled his ‘vote of no confidence in the government’ for two reasons. Firstly because it was politically expedient to do so, and secondly because he’s a tosser.
Because I think he was the only man in parliament yesterday who reckons Labour could do it better. Even though he has never said and will never be seen actually stating how ‘better’ would be achieved, or even what ‘better’ might look like, nor how he’d simply fly this ‘better’ past Europe who would embrace it totally. Due to his ‘charm’ no doubt. His statesmanship.
Tosser.
I rarely quote Boris these days, I’d gone right off him. Until last night after the vote, when he stated, quite rightly, that we should treat this not as a loss, more of a mandate from the British Parliament to say to Europe that the crock-of-shit deal that THEY put together and twisted and mangled from any form of British acceptability has been summarily rejected. Try again, and try harder. Lose the fucking ‘backstop’ for one. Don’t leave Britain in the situation where we’re obeying all European laws and rules but getting a say in none of them.
Even Boris, who never misses an opportunity for self-promotion, said that leaving Europe is not about WHO is doing it, its about WHAT is being done. Theresa May is merely the messenger. Plus, in reality, would Boris want that job now? Would anyone??
Oh yes, Corbyn wants it. I forgot. But only because he’s so stupid to imagine that his party would all pull together for this mythical ‘better deal’. The remainers would hug the leavers, the hards and softs would align in harmony and they’d all sing ‘the red flag’ together. Diane Abbot could count the votes.
For the total and absolute bore that Brexit has become, last night was very exciting. And that excitement continues. Probably won’t get boring again until next Tuesday.
As to ‘where we’re going’; NOBODY KNOWS.
Happy Wednesday
A xxxx
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