NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM : Downing Street has been the focus for some unusual criticism this week after it sent so called “non-papers” on Brexit to the EU.
“It’s all rot,” Stephen ‘the Barsarker’ Barclay admitted privately to a packed news conference, “the non-papers were papers, just they were blank papers, as we were hoping the EU would do the working out for us. Paper of this quality isn’t cheap. You think they’d be more grateful. This just underlined why we have to crash out of the EU, about the one thing we can do successfully. The crashing bit that is.”
But nonetheless it’s not just the EU that were left underwhelmed. Much of the UK is too.
“Just because it’s only weeks until we’re due to leave, do or die, and we’re spending endless millions that could have funded public services on pro-Brexit propaganda, some people expect us to actually have a coherent plan. To come up with constructive and feasible alternatives to the things we don’t like? It’s just not fair. We’re not miracle workers you know.”
Which is a shame really. Miracle workers are needed to make a success of Brexit.
“It wasn’t supposed to be this way anyway. Boris was supposed to get a GE by now. Meddling MPs have spoiled the plan. Now what have we got left? The blame game. That’s what. And we’re going to make a success of it.”
About all you can expect from a non-government whose entire focus seems to be producing a daily barrage of campaign videos for Boris Johnson. No actual sign of any governance.
And you have to wonder, at what point does the UK convulse and throw off all this incompetence? And that includes throwing off Brexit, the very wellspring of it.