The Brexit Election

Tuesday 9th May

You have to hand it to the Tories (but please don’t), they have turned this election into a second referendum on Brexit.  One can only wonder how so many Conservative M.P.s who were staunch Remainers can smile with glee when they declare that Theresa May will deliver Brexit from the dastardly Europeans; only months ago they loved Europe so much.  But this is the new politics, it doesn’t matter what you really believe or what you say one day or the next – winning is all that matters.

The problem with Labour is that they air their differences in public, and are perceived as really being Remainers, who want us to stay in by the back door.  And while this may be partly true, it is also true (or was until very recently) of the majority of Tory M.P.s.  Just before the referendum was announced most commentators were saying that it might tear the Tory party apart, as they appeared more split than Labour.  Of course had the vote gone to Remain that may have been the case, but Leave it was, and the main Remainers, Cameron and Osborne are now being rapidly written out of History, no longer M.P.s even.  And Mrs. May, who was supposed to be a Remainer grasped the chance to become P.M. by declaring that she was now Brexiteer-in-Chief.

But the whole thing is nonsense really.  Firstly the negotiations haven’t even started, let alone are we anywhere near knowing what sort of a deal we will have to swallow.  So there is still an air of Jingo-ism about Brexit.  It still simply means Brexit…and now even more reason to despise the Europeans.

And yet those who question just what sort of a deal (or no deal, which would believe me be far far worse) we may end up getting are branded as Sabateurs.  And so the madness continues.

And the real issues, such as the NHS crisis, the Social Care Crisis, the looming under-funding of schools are barely discussed.  All the Tories are saying is we need Strong and Stable leadership (by the way, didn’t they just change a Strong and Stable Leadership, and then turn the ship round 180 degrees?) and just look at Jeremy Corbyn…wink, wink, nudge nudge.

And just around the corner may well be looming another Recession…

At least I am in France and can escape some of this madness, though it may end up affecting my pension and possibly my right to live here.