Nelson must be turning his grave

 

In an interview with Channel 4 News today, Brexit Minister Chris Heaton-Harris (who he?) was talking about the planning for a possible No Deal Brexit. He said "We have no plans to use the Army in any of our contingencies. In 'no deal' planning, we have absolutely no plans for that." And then he went to say "You’d expect any responsible government to take these steps." Responsible government? I'll tell you what I’d expect a responsible government to do, matey.

I’d expect them to have prepared for a No vote before the referendum. What kind of idiots would have failed to consider that they could lose? Oh yeah, the over-privileged Eton Boy, David Cameron. Say no more.

 

I’d have expected them, having lost and not having done any preparatory work, to not trigger Article 50 until they had a collegiate response to the situation. You know, something like a realistic plan that they could, perhaps, put forward to Europe

I’d have expected a responsible government to not have a General Election (breaking the Fixed Term Parliament Act) and then go on to lose their majority.

I’d have expected them not to bribe, of all parties, the bloody DUP, with £2 billion of our money to get them to keep our hapless prime minister’s incompetent backside in Downing Street. Lord knows, she was useless enough before she tied herself to that bunch of extremists.

I’d certainly not have expected them to still be fighting like cats and dogs amongst themselves, never mind any of the opposition parties, and never mind the EU negotiators, with fewer than 100 days to go before we drop out by default, over the edge of a cliff.

I’d expect them not to take a Christmas holiday while this crisis was happening. If they have to sit in parliament on Christmas Day, so be it. Countless others have to work.

I’d expect them not to wait until the middle of January to bring back the delayed proposals, (which were definitely going to be voted on last week, you’ll remember) to parliament.  You know, once they’ve returned from skiing in the Alps or sunbathing in the Maldives, and finished blackmailing their own MPs to either vote for them or crash out into oblivion.

I’d have expected a responsible government to have behaved like a responsible government. But I’d have expected that with realistically very little hope. They told us that no deal was better than a bad deal, and the bad deal they have negotiated is now better than no deal. Only in Toryland does this make sense. They really are taking the p**s.

Now, far too late, they are facing up to the fact that they may be about to bankrupt us all and split their party. And given Mrs May's authoritarian tendencies, it comes as no surprise that they have started thinking of taking emergency power to themselves. Although, frankly, the thought of morons like them having any kind of emergency powers and what they might do with them, scares the s**t out of me. It should you, as well. 

In the meantime, Jezza sits on the fence. And that does meet my expectations.