Tories thought they could use Article 50 to scam a new treaty, but they got us expelled.
They'll sack Theresa May and abandon Brexit.
Jun 14, 2022 • 17 tweets • 2 min read
Okay. What is THE big problem of Brexit? What has been the one big problem all along?
Racism. And that's the thing the English don't want to face.
But you will face it with me. Why did people vote for Brexit? You know what the answer is. They wanted to stop immigration.
The far right and the far left have been stirring that up for years.
May 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
"Issues over the protocol" as English newsmen call it is actually one issue - the Irish border. And the issue is not what kind of border but only the location of it.
My goldfish understands this by now. You can't put a border in Ireland, so it has to go in the sea. But Johnson can't survive that even though he's already agreed to it.
May 7, 2022 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
With Sinn Fein the largest party in Stormont, the SNP by far the largest in Holyrood and promising to hold the balance in a Westminster hung parliament, the cracks are showing right through the United Kingdom.
I never did think the United Kingdom would survive Brexit. it certainly won't survive Botty Johnson. He is an ignoramus. he has no idea how to govern anything.
May 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
English news is obsessed with trivia and parliament is drowning in cowardice.
ENGLISHMEN - You have voted for something your government cannot accomplish.
ENGLISHMEN - Neither of your two main parties are capable of governing the country because of you.
May 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
During the 1990s the Tories had a choice of going two ways. They could either become a more centrist party hoping to win broad support across the whole United Kingdom.
Or retreat into pure English nationalism.
They chose the extreme because it was cheap and easy. They needed a Neil Kinnock, but they didn't have one. A succession of weak leaders left them captive to their far right.
The point is there is more to Britain than England, but you would never know it from English news.
Oct 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Brexit is like a psychological Berlin wall. Look at all its concrete pilings and barbed wire. look at its watchtowers and searchlights. All the soldiers to and fro protecting the purity of Brexit
No one is allowed to question Brexit. No one is allowed to challenge it. Brexit is the people, and if you're anti Brexit, then you're anti people.
Oct 15, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Labour needs a policy on Brexit. What can they choose from
They could say this is a wonderful Brexit. the best possible Brexit. People would think they're idiots. Even the Tories don't like this Brexit and they invented it.
They could say they want Brexit but a different Brexit.
But which one? Theresa May's customs union? That's the only other one there is. The Irish Sea one, or the customs union.
Oct 4, 2021 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
Like I keep telling everyone - my goldfish - Johnson has got a phantom majority.
He's got a majority for all sorts of things like selling seats in parliament and political bribes. But not for Brexit.
It works like this.
Johnson has got a party committed to and expecting to see a total Brexit. That can be done only if you leave Northern Ireland behind.
Because Johnson can't put a border in Ireland
Oct 2, 2021 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
The Eight Fuck ups of Brexit.
Set the scene
The Tories are split over Europe, but they keep winning elections. The country won't stop voting for them, and they won't stop squabbling.
Cameron was in coalition with the Lib Dems for five years, so Europe didn't come up much. Then he won a majority of 10.
So far so ordinary
Sep 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I think the answer is that Johnson can't conclude Brexit.
He's finished if he puts a border in Ireland, he's finished if he puts it in the Irish Sea, and he's finished if he stays in the single market.
Johnson has got a majority only as long as Brexit is still open. As soon as he tries to conclude it his government will collapse.
But if he doesn't conclude it it's going to stink him out like a corpse in the sun
Jul 16, 2021 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
I'll tell you what's wrong with Britian's parliamentary system - oh, I'm so glad, I was hoping somebody would.
I've said before that government and parliament should be two separate entities instead of this freakshow we've got where the government is produced from the well of the general parliament.
But why? Oh yes.
Jul 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
You don't understand that England is experiencing a total system failure.
The country is being destroyed by the most expensively educated people you've got.
Your country is failing but you're not interpreting the failure.
Countries don't just destroy themselves overnight. It takes time and effort
Jun 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Christ, English news is dense.
Johnson signed a treaty, forced it through parliament with minimal scrutiny, and then boasted it up to the entire country.
Now he's saying he can't live up to it.
That is a resignation offence.
I want people to start doing their fucking job.
I want the opposition to start demanding Johnson's resignation. I want newsmen to start asking why he hasn't resigned.
Jun 7, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Englishmen, allow me to guide you to the right answer. It's so easy when you see it.
There are two sides in Northern Ireland who really don't like each other. One side wants to be part of Ireland, and the other wants to be part of Britain.
Easy
The answer is to not have a border anywhere. There wasn't one before, so keep there none.
Brexit. Who?
Jun 6, 2021 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
There was an interesting conversation yesterday all about Franz Kafka's metamorphosis, and whether it had any merit.
So I read it again yesterday, and I've been thinking about it overnight. What does it all mean?
I don't think it means anything in the bureaucratic sense. It's not an allegory because it doesn't refer to anything in real life.
You could read ot that way, of course. You can read anything that way. But it doesn't look like it was written that way.
Jun 5, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
The first thing the English fail to understand is that a constitution is a separate species of law.
The main problem you have to get over is middle class vanity. They think a constitution is the sort of thing Englishmen should have, so they assume they must have
May 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Johnson has obviously accepted there's going to be a Scottish referendum. It can't be this year, and it has to be before the next general election in 2024.
That leaves 2022 or 2023
It always feels to me like it would need a year's planning and preparation. So to have it next year they'd have to start planning it now.
I suppose they could if they had to, but want to? I doubt it.
May 28, 2021 • 17 tweets • 2 min read
No. The mistake the royal family is making and Gordon brown too by the sounds of it is to try and save the union by emotion.
But that only draws attention to the deficit
Y'see. The root of it is the massively unequal relation between England and Scotland. England has always been the dominant part of the union, and that means it has to conduct itself with self restraint.
May 18, 2021 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
The trade part of twitter and the political part of twitter are not quite wired up right.
The trade part of twitter is all about the practical business of crossing borders.
While the political part of twitter is all about borders in people's head.
May 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
If Johnson accepts the agreement he has just repudiated his cabinet will resign and he'll get a vote of no confidence and a leadership challenge.
If Johnson tries to revert to the Theresa May customs area the ground will simply swallow him up out of embarrassment.
