Dublin was my last stop on my whistlestop tour or Europe before the portcullis came down. And now it looks like it might not. It appears the lever is stuck. And the guy pulling the lever has gone on his lunch break. And all the Maybot’s horses and all the Maybot’s men can’t seem to get their shit together to work out how to make it work, mainly because it shouldn’t be coming down in the first place. We might officially be in the midst of the greatest period of ‘fannying about’ in world politics in the history of mankind. And most of us here can’t bear to watch or listen anymore. We are the dying animal, shot by the hunter, just praying we will be put out of our misery sooner rather than later. But the hunter’s having a fag and doesn’t give a shit what pain he is causing to his wounded victim. And…and that’s probably enough metaphors to be going on with in one post..basically, we’re still fucked and looks like we will remain so for the foreseeable future, not that it looks like we really have one anymore.
We are teetering on the brink and after all the nonsense of the last two years its difficult to believe that this god almighty shit show need never have happened. And despite all the appalling mismanagement of Maybot and the MPs to resolve this it is not really their fault as Brexit was an impossible puzzle, ‘ a fucking riddle that can’t be solved’ as Danny Dyer so eloquently put it. There is still really only one person to blame for all of this and that is Cameron who called the referendum on the biggest and most incorrect assumption of all time. Namely that no-one would want to rock the boat and would play safe. And this is because he was basically relying on people following the old maxim: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But what he didn’t realise was that Britain was in fact broken. And he had personally broken it. His (and Osborne’s) destructive policy of austerity had ripped out the framework of our society in the decade leading up to this idiotic decision and he was painfully unaware of the misery he had caused. Not that its about blame at this stage. We are way past that but we should all at least agree that Brexit was a symptom of the problems present in the country, not the cause but it was very much like bringing a match to a paraffin party.
Tip-toeing back from the abyss of Brexit despair, I found myself in a very cool buzzing city. Dublin has a great vibe and there is a lot to love about it and not much at all to dislike. It feels like a city on the up and up. Had a great time although I did spend most of my time there begging people to marry me and Mrs. Romero so we can get a European passport. Some interest but no firm commitment, much like Labour’s response to the People’s vote. Bada bing!
I will be back in London next week to document the continued crumbling of our country…anarchy in the u.k might soon not just be a song title. Altogether now..I am an anti-christ!
p.s here is a petition to revoke article 50 which already has over 2 1/2 million signatures in just over 24 hours – last chance at the saloon: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584