So this morning
Aug. 14th, 2019 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersI read that Philip Hammond, ex-chancellor of the exchequer, has criticised Boris:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49336144
in a rather sensible analysis.
Our redoubtable PM responded later with the statement that Brexit opponents are "collaborating" withBerlin Brussels.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49348072
Rather that than collaborate with Putin, Bannon, Cambridge Analytica (dec'd), and Crispin Odey.
As we all know, by your friends are ye known. Boris still has some pretty decent chums. Sometimes we are not to blame for our friend's mistakes; and even peer pressure can't ameliorate the influences of rampant ambition on a chap's behaviour.
Tosspots in Brexit have made the present argument about a hard Brexit a binary one and then complain that Remainers aren't compromising. The New Irish Question is really going to come back and bite Boris in the bum. I actually now have a perverse hope that Boris wins a General Election after we crash out; and then comes up against the Irish caucus in the States. I think he has to own this all properly, to use the modern idiom. Even so I'd prefer us to avoid it all. We will see.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49336144
in a rather sensible analysis.
Our redoubtable PM responded later with the statement that Brexit opponents are "collaborating" with
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49348072
Rather that than collaborate with Putin, Bannon, Cambridge Analytica (dec'd), and Crispin Odey.
As we all know, by your friends are ye known. Boris still has some pretty decent chums. Sometimes we are not to blame for our friend's mistakes; and even peer pressure can't ameliorate the influences of rampant ambition on a chap's behaviour.
Tosspots in Brexit have made the present argument about a hard Brexit a binary one and then complain that Remainers aren't compromising. The New Irish Question is really going to come back and bite Boris in the bum. I actually now have a perverse hope that Boris wins a General Election after we crash out; and then comes up against the Irish caucus in the States. I think he has to own this all properly, to use the modern idiom. Even so I'd prefer us to avoid it all. We will see.
