BOJO Bulldust
The illiterati remain obsessed with chanting “Brexit is done, get over it and move on!” Unfortunately this is a classic case of, “can you smell that stuff you shovelling”!
Brexit is not done and is unlikely to ever be done. Current rows about the status of Northern Ireland serve only to underline the point. The choice of the majority who voted for Brexit must be respected, yet in the country in particular politicians are placed in an almost insurmountable position. Everybody knows that Boris is a chancer, after all it's part of his charm. But when cornered, his true colours often glimmer through the mist. Don't forget :he left David Cameron thinking that he might support the Brexit deal and campaign accordingly only to overnight become a committed leaver. Bottom line, Boris is a shuttlecock floating towards the end line and hoping to land in and not out. Or, should it be the other way around? Who knows with Boris?
The current spat with the French is as unedifying as it was predictable. Moron Macron sees votes in a bit of roastbeeefs bashing and Boris would love to wear the Henry V mantle and give the froggies six of the best - trousers down. . "Monge too" as Del boy would say. All good clean fun you may say. On the day a delay to unlocking is now delayed for four weeks, and Boris has so annoyed the speaker that he might have to take six of the best in the Commons :it's not surprising that the Boris balls up of Ireland has slipped down the list of things to deal with. Let's just kick it down the road again.
As attractive as this might seem it's, in reality, a fantasy.
For, the Irish question has been kicked down the road so often, surely the ball is flatter than a witch's chest. But, is there any chance Boris actually has a plan and knows more than we do? Not likely.
If he does it's probably a dose of electoral reality. Successive Unionist led governments at Stormont have known that the day is coming when their electoral majority will disappear. Boris knows this as well. He knows as leader of the Conservative and Unionist party, he could never openly betray the Unionists. But, the present Northern Ireland deal provides for a plebiscite of the people of Northern Ireland if they wish to have a United Ireland. Maybe the arch chancer is happy to just waffle and bluster and wait for demographics to come to his rescue.
Or, he has found that the EU, for all its blustering, can do little practically to annoy him.
Dealing with Dominic Cummings may actually cause him more problems than Brexit and NI combined, but that’s a story for another day.
News today is that the NI executive will be reconstituted as Sinn Fein agree to power sharing with the new ultra-right-wing Ulster Unionists. As unrest grows on the street prior to the onset of the traditional marching season, Boris just ignores it. After all, that’s what he did with NI to get a deal with the EU, so why not try it again? Then, next day Mr Poots , newly installed dup leader, resigns over a deal he did with sinn feinn to promote the Irish language. (a day is a long time in Irish politics)
Boris reaction : spout more platitudes.
I watched a very interesting documentary about the founding of the Irish Free State. I suspect that few people know that the partition of Ireland was agreed by the British government to be a temporary situation. At that time even the NI unionists were on board with guarantees from the UK that they would be protected within a united Ireland. As we know, this did not happen and in the end the Irish were unwilling to be part of the commonwealth with the British monarch as Head of state.
Now we see again that the unionists will not supinely countenance any kind of a united Ireland. And, as we approach the marching season, things are likely to get worse before they get better.
Whose responsibility?
Surely, it’s got to be Bonking Boris.
