Many will have noticed (well not that many, as not that many people read this so let's say many among you) many among you will have noticed the absence of that tousle-haired man of the people, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson who by the way is known as Alex at home but adopted the 'Boris' for his stage-name because it was more exotic. The complete opposite to Osborne who ditched the Gideon for a more prosaic George at the age of thirteen.
The thing is I was struggling to find a match and I wanted to make sure I did him justice. I toyed with Flashman, not the Flashman from Tom Brown's Schooldays but the adult Flashman from the novels by George MacDonald Fraser. The womanising work-shy coward who always somehow seems to come up smelling of roses. And then I had an even better idea. How about Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee combined in a hideous two faced oaf constantly fighting with itself and unable to make up its mind? I imagined this played by Matt Lucas in one of Michael Fabricant's cast-off wigs.
Boris: Don't ya love 'im?
I was also reflecting on my choice of Robin the Boy Wonder as the alter ego of Gideon and I realised it was an even better fit than I had at first thought, because he even has his own super-hero costume. Hi-vis jacket, hard-hat, safety-glasses. Every time you see him in public that is how he is dressed. The only time we get to see his true identity is in the House of Commons. How exposed he must feel, which is maybe why he appears to need a stiffener of some sort before he takes his place in the chamber. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLcPkZ0LzUA
Anyway, enough already.
Back to our muttons.
I was wondering yesterday what had happened to Nigel and I left you with the news that he had crawled out from beneath the Misty Mountains, paddled across the channel on a log and had pitched up in the chamber of the European Parliament, where for the moment he has every right to be, and here he gave one of the most bizarre speeches imaginable. He has got his way and Britain is poised to leave the EU, well say poised, maybe not poised exactly, not on the brink, but still heading inexorably towards it. The world economy is in turmoil despite all the assurances given to us by those heading the Leave campaign. Nigel had promised that we will be much better off negotiating with the countries of the world as an independent nation, and here he is effectively alienating the largest trading bloc in the world. Whoever negotiates our future relationship with the EU will not have a lot to thank him for. The member states are not going to give up a smooth ride anyway, and Nigel has just let all the air out of our tyres. Thanks Nige. But he doesn't care. He was mightily miffed by the way the Leave side treated him during the campaign and this is payback time Power without responsibility again.
It's no wonder Alex has said that if he becomes PM he won't call an election. That would open up the prospect of a sizeable number of UKIP MPs in Westminster, sadly in all probability at the expense of the Labour Party. Life is going to be difficult for whoever succeeds David Cameron without Farage and his attack poodles snapping at their heels.
Before the referendum Farage had already made veiled threats of violence if his supporters did not get their way. To quote him verbatim as he enjoyed a curry (oh the irony) with John Pienaar. I think it's legitimate to say that if people feel they've lost control... completely... and we have lost control of our borders completely as members of the European Union, and if people feel that voting doesn't change anything, then violence is the next step... I find it difficult to contemplate it happening here but nothing is impossible. He may well have had a few at that point but that's pretty unambiguous.
Anyway Farage got his way and the British electorate supported him and his side and voted for us to leave the EU (just in case you had missed the news).
So, you might think, no need for this violence, they can take back control and everything will be peace and love and fluffy kittens and we will all live happily ever after in Merrie England.
Unfortunately nobody remembered to tell the knuckle draggers who represent the dregs of UKIP and the EDL and Britain First and any other far-right, neo-Nazi group I have failed to mention that this meant that the racism could go back in the cupboard and it would all be sorted out in a civilised manner by forced repatriation and quotas.
The buggers have won and still the spirit of Oswald Mosley stalks the land. Sales of black shirts will no doubt rocket (ironically probably made by muslamists in Bangladesh). Vile and disgusting acts of racism have already started and it has been less than a week since the vote. Somehow these specimens of pond life have decided that it's now ok to be overtly racist and they have come crawling out from under their rocks, spraying hate filled graffiti, calling people with different skin colour 'paki', the fire bombing of a Halal butcher. Human Rights Watch have recorded 90 incidents in three days. There is a Facebook page called Worrying Signs (https://www.facebook.com/groups/610588862443201/) where people can post their experiences. It is truly horrible.
Much has been made by the leavers of the dangers of a European left-leaning super-state.
It's not the left we should be wary of, groups of protestors shouting:
What do we want?
To help people whose homes have just been bombed.
When do we want it?
Now.
The danger to the stability of the whole region comes from the radicalised right. The right have no tradition of 'the greater good for all' which is one of the basic tenets of left wing philosophy. There is no danger of the left seizing the means of production. In Britain we have precious little production left anyway and much of that may move to the mainland of Europe when we finally get around to invoking Article 50. Again the irony is that once we are free of the constraints of the EU there will be nothing preventing us re-nationalising industries and services should the government choose to do so. Bloody red tape, all gone.
Which is all to say that Farage must be watched and every effort must be made to stop him becoming more powerful. He and his kind must not win seats at the the next General Election, whenever it is held.
I am now going to shout in time honoured fashion:
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK.
And on that note I will take my leave. Talk again soon.
Love Tim xx
The thing is I was struggling to find a match and I wanted to make sure I did him justice. I toyed with Flashman, not the Flashman from Tom Brown's Schooldays but the adult Flashman from the novels by George MacDonald Fraser. The womanising work-shy coward who always somehow seems to come up smelling of roses. And then I had an even better idea. How about Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee combined in a hideous two faced oaf constantly fighting with itself and unable to make up its mind? I imagined this played by Matt Lucas in one of Michael Fabricant's cast-off wigs.
Boris: Don't ya love 'im?
I was also reflecting on my choice of Robin the Boy Wonder as the alter ego of Gideon and I realised it was an even better fit than I had at first thought, because he even has his own super-hero costume. Hi-vis jacket, hard-hat, safety-glasses. Every time you see him in public that is how he is dressed. The only time we get to see his true identity is in the House of Commons. How exposed he must feel, which is maybe why he appears to need a stiffener of some sort before he takes his place in the chamber. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLcPkZ0LzUA
Anyway, enough already.
Back to our muttons.
I was wondering yesterday what had happened to Nigel and I left you with the news that he had crawled out from beneath the Misty Mountains, paddled across the channel on a log and had pitched up in the chamber of the European Parliament, where for the moment he has every right to be, and here he gave one of the most bizarre speeches imaginable. He has got his way and Britain is poised to leave the EU, well say poised, maybe not poised exactly, not on the brink, but still heading inexorably towards it. The world economy is in turmoil despite all the assurances given to us by those heading the Leave campaign. Nigel had promised that we will be much better off negotiating with the countries of the world as an independent nation, and here he is effectively alienating the largest trading bloc in the world. Whoever negotiates our future relationship with the EU will not have a lot to thank him for. The member states are not going to give up a smooth ride anyway, and Nigel has just let all the air out of our tyres. Thanks Nige. But he doesn't care. He was mightily miffed by the way the Leave side treated him during the campaign and this is payback time Power without responsibility again.
It's no wonder Alex has said that if he becomes PM he won't call an election. That would open up the prospect of a sizeable number of UKIP MPs in Westminster, sadly in all probability at the expense of the Labour Party. Life is going to be difficult for whoever succeeds David Cameron without Farage and his attack poodles snapping at their heels.
Before the referendum Farage had already made veiled threats of violence if his supporters did not get their way. To quote him verbatim as he enjoyed a curry (oh the irony) with John Pienaar. I think it's legitimate to say that if people feel they've lost control... completely... and we have lost control of our borders completely as members of the European Union, and if people feel that voting doesn't change anything, then violence is the next step... I find it difficult to contemplate it happening here but nothing is impossible. He may well have had a few at that point but that's pretty unambiguous.
Anyway Farage got his way and the British electorate supported him and his side and voted for us to leave the EU (just in case you had missed the news).
So, you might think, no need for this violence, they can take back control and everything will be peace and love and fluffy kittens and we will all live happily ever after in Merrie England.
Unfortunately nobody remembered to tell the knuckle draggers who represent the dregs of UKIP and the EDL and Britain First and any other far-right, neo-Nazi group I have failed to mention that this meant that the racism could go back in the cupboard and it would all be sorted out in a civilised manner by forced repatriation and quotas.
The buggers have won and still the spirit of Oswald Mosley stalks the land. Sales of black shirts will no doubt rocket (ironically probably made by muslamists in Bangladesh). Vile and disgusting acts of racism have already started and it has been less than a week since the vote. Somehow these specimens of pond life have decided that it's now ok to be overtly racist and they have come crawling out from under their rocks, spraying hate filled graffiti, calling people with different skin colour 'paki', the fire bombing of a Halal butcher. Human Rights Watch have recorded 90 incidents in three days. There is a Facebook page called Worrying Signs (https://www.facebook.com/groups/610588862443201/) where people can post their experiences. It is truly horrible.
Much has been made by the leavers of the dangers of a European left-leaning super-state.
It's not the left we should be wary of, groups of protestors shouting:
What do we want?
To help people whose homes have just been bombed.
When do we want it?
Now.
The danger to the stability of the whole region comes from the radicalised right. The right have no tradition of 'the greater good for all' which is one of the basic tenets of left wing philosophy. There is no danger of the left seizing the means of production. In Britain we have precious little production left anyway and much of that may move to the mainland of Europe when we finally get around to invoking Article 50. Again the irony is that once we are free of the constraints of the EU there will be nothing preventing us re-nationalising industries and services should the government choose to do so. Bloody red tape, all gone.
Which is all to say that Farage must be watched and every effort must be made to stop him becoming more powerful. He and his kind must not win seats at the the next General Election, whenever it is held.
I am now going to shout in time honoured fashion:
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK.
And on that note I will take my leave. Talk again soon.
Love Tim xx
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