A world without news

Rather amazingly, I spent my four days in Shropshire without once turning on a radio or TV or buying a newspaper - "bliss was it in that morn to be alive" without all that non-stop political yadda-yadda!  Needless to say, like the news junkie that I am, I reconnected within minutes of coming home and last night, as I mentioned below, I watched the entire two hours of the EU debate on ITV.

I don't know what the media are saying of the event but my impression was that the Remainers were appalling people.  We had 'Mrs. McWhinge' from the ScotsNats with her voice that sounds like a grass-strimmer running at full throttle apparently totally unable to grasp the irony that she, herself, had recently fought - and lost - a referendum for Scotland to break away from the UK.  Then there was one of the Eagle twins, Angela, who spent most of her time delivering a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour party and urging us all to pay attention to the words and advice of Trade Union leaders - yeeeeees, quite!  And then there was that frightful lump of woman about whom I expressed my feelings last night, Ms. Amber Rudd, who had obviously been let off the leash by 'Dave 'n' George' with orders to sink her teeth into Boris.  This she duly did and like the mad dog she is I think she should be put down.

By contrast, Gisela Stuart, a Labour MP, who is herself an immigrant, was quietly and calmly persuasive.  She knows, being German, the way the EU operates and it makes her shudder to think they will eventually control this country - totally.  She was supported admirably by Andrea Leadsman MP who, having worked at a very high level in the City, actually understood the financial risks and the opportunities available if Britain quits.  Finally, there was Boris!  A different sort of Boris from the hurly-burly character he normally plays.  He was quiet, but quietly persuasive, and he refused to rise to the vile insults chucked at him by the dreadful three witches opposite him.

Above all, Boris and his team kept repeating the main mantra of the Brexiteer movement -

TAKE BACK CONTROL

AND VOTE LEAVE

 

Comments

[Loz]

TAKE BACK CONTROL AND RETURN TO 1974 - VOTE LEAVE

SoD

[David Duff]

Exactly!

[backofanenvelope]

Better to play it safe - back to 1972

[AussieD]

SoD I find it difficult to understand why you wish to hand the sovereignty of your country to a bunch of foreign bureaucrats whom you had no say in appointing. In fact I find it impossible to understand.

I have followed the arguments both for and against and find those of the people wanting to stay in the EU wanting.

That the country that gave us Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort's "Provisions of Oxford" along with a concept of Parliamentary Democracy which so far is unequalled should bend the knee to a concept so totalitarian is beyond rational explanation.