Now I don’t often get political, but all this nonsense is getting my goat.
Last June, we had a referendum in the UK and decided to leave the European Union. We are a democracy and 52% of the great British public said go, so we go. In March, our Prime Minister started the official process by confirming to Brussels that we would be out in two years’ time. The process is irrevocable. She has done what the people told her to do. In March 2019, we will be gone and nothing can stop it.
The requirement now is for everyone to pull together and sort out the best possible outcome from, what I believe, was a daft decision. But what do we have instead? Our ruling class squabbling day in day out about who’s going to do the talking. Some still think we might be able to stay in the club if we ask nicely. Children please! Stop it! This is serious. For once stop trying to further your own careers pointlessly and think of us lot for once. You are all like dogs chasing a bus: you wouldn’t know what to do if you caught it.
I am repeatedly told that the job of Her Majesty’s Opposition is to oppose. No, it’s not. It’s to hold the government to account, not to oppose everything, automatically, for the sake of it. It’s barmy chaps, please behave! It’s like living with a bunch of 10-year-olds except you can’t shut them up with chips and an X-Men DVD.
We now have a general election. It might be the best thing if one party ends up with a strong majority and can just crack on and do the work without having to look over their shoulders all the time. But allow me to give them all a piece of advice: we’d like it much more if you’d stop sniping at each other.
Surely, by now, politicians must realise that the public has grown weary of their childish games. We are not taken in by it, we just despise them all for patronising us. It’s time for them to grow up. Whatever colour the Prime Minister wears I don’t much care. But if we are on the threshold of a new world order, let’s have a parliament that treats us like adults and gets on with the job – just like the rest of us have to, whatever Brexit, Trump or Emmanuel Macron serve us.