Alice in Blunderland

Friday 8th December

We are truly living in an Alice in Wonderland world, where “words mean what I mean them to mean”.  In other words, whatever you thought I said, or meant, or even the words I used, I never meant what you thought I said.  This is a game of semantics.  Just like Bill Clinton who famously once (re: Monica Lewinsky) “it all depends on what the word is, is”, our Government is talking “double-speak”.  You see, one drink makes you taller and the other makes you smaller.

For months Parliament has been demanding that the Government produce their economic impact assessments for businesses when we leave the EU.  In fact David Davis has boasted, at least six times on television, that incredibly detailed assessments, sector by sector had been produced by his Department.  Now, call them what you like – detailed economic assessments, or impact assessments – they surely amount to the same thing.  What will be the effect on business when we leave the EU.  Even if exactly how we leave is still to be decided, there must surely be a few scenarios which will each have different consequences.

After being defeated in parliament, and being forced to hand over these assessments, it transpired on Wednesday – that actually, there were no assessments.  No impact assessments have actually been done.  Therefore we have complied with Parliament’s wishes, because we cannot produce reports that have never been complied (even though we have boasted that they exist for months).  You see, this glass makes you larger, and this one makes you smaller…

Jeremy Corbyn asked Mrs. May how she was going to resolve the Irish Border question.  She answered that that was why negotiations were still continuing.  In other words – I haven’t a clue, but I am not going to tell you that – So, we are still going to solve this problem but I am not going to tell you how, because none of us has the foggiest, but whatever transpires, we will declare it a victory.

Philip Hammond has admitted that the Cabinet (which is actually supposed to be running the country) has not even discussed what sort of Brexit we are aiming (or desperately hoping for).

You see, words are simply what we mean them to mean.  One drink makes you taller and the other makes you smaller.

President Trump is single-handedly going to deliver Peace to the Middle East.  By recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel (though not a single other country in the World thinks this is anything less than a disaster) this will somehow make everyone shake hands and be friends.  It is all so simple – one drink makes you taller and the other makes you smaller.