Consequences

Wednesday 15th March

We used to play a game called consequences: I can’t remember too much about it really, except that unusual things would happen from a seemingly normal situation.  The thing was that you could only react to the latest bit of information, you had no foresight – or hindsight of course.  Anyway we are now entering into the new game of consequences, unforeseen of course by the blinkered vision of our so-called leaders and betters.  And a direct result of an arrogance and intolerance that has surfaced in our body politic; where once consensus and a gradual thoughtful approach was the order of the day, now it is a headlong rush into conviction and a confidence borne only of idealism and an ostrich-like approach to the bleeding obvious.

Mrs. May has become a prisoner, if she weren’t always a secret convert, of the mad Brexiteers in the Tory Party.  And in the name of the 52% she has totally ignored the wishes of the 48%, and shown herself to be as arrogant as the previous female occupant of No. 10 Downing Street.  Firstly she tried to trigger Article 50 using Royal Prerogative (that is, her own power supposedly devolved from the Monarch), this was proved to be a nonsense by court after court – and still she plugged on, eventually being dragged to the Commons with a ‘plan’ with almost no detail at all.  And even now she is attempting to bulldoze all sensible suggestions into submission.  She has already thrown away her best card, negotiating to remain in the Single Market, and yet is prepared to hold hostage millions of Europeans living here, and us Brits abroad too.   And she sacked Heseltine for his temerity in voting for Parliament to have a say on the final deal; sheer arrogance.

And her claim to negotiate on behalf of all the devolved Governments of the United Kingdom had also been exposed as nonsense; she has completely ignored the Scottish Government’s detailed proposals for finding a compromise to allow Scotland to remain in the Single Market.  Her arrogance is astounding; only she knows what the British public voted for, only she will decide on how we leave the EU.  Well, come-uppance has arrived.  Nicola Sturgeon will have a referendum, and this time I think she will win.  Exactly what will happen then I really do not know, but I suspect that Northern Ireland may indeed also try for a referendum to partially unite Ireland, maybe under some joint sovereignty.  And if, as I suspect it all goes wrong is her arrogance so complete that she will really want to crash out of the EU with no deal at all?   Watch this space….