Category: Democracy

We see “respect the will of the referendum” everywhere from Leavers.

Not only the diehard Brexiters.

Labour leaders and activists love to roll it out too as some magic bullet when their unofficial alliance with the Tories on Brexit is questioned.

“Labour respects the result of the referendum”, a stock response.

Well, here’s a counter to that tired and empty phrase be it from a Torykipper or a Labour person. My focus is more on Labour because it’s reasonable to assume that Brexit can be stopped by Labour…

You respect the result of the referendum?

I’m not trying to stop you doing that.

But if a friend tells you they’re going to harm themselves, do you respect their decision so much you try to assist them in doing it?

Or are you able to both respect their decision and try to stop them?

If you just let them carry on, how good a friend does it make you, if you could have intervened and didn’t?

How good a friend to the United Kingdom is Jeremy Corbyn MP at the moment?

Is Theresa May MP?

Are all the many MP’s who we know believe Brexit will be an horrific act of self harm by this country good friends to the United Kingdom?

As they respect the narrow margin/will of the referendum…and quietly tug the forelock to the leader?

Be a friend.

Respecting the decision, for its serious intent, does not stop you trying to stop a friend (an entire country in this case) from a determination to self harm.

Reeks & Smogg have allegedly seized on a gap in the consumer market as an opportunity to sell ‘snake oil’ and they’ve the right man for the sales job.

A representative of the alternative herbal products company, which has modelled itself on Holland & Barratt, with the exception that the products Reeks & Smogg sell will make you ill, spoke to LCD Views on the benefits of their new product, Jacob’s Oils.

“We have tested it in the Badlands of South Dakota and been surprised by the number of Trump T shirt clad customers purchasing our product,” the Somerset businessman said, “It is literally flying off the shelves. And the customer reviews are rave, even if unintelligible.”

An Exeter R&M shop assistant told us,

“We started stocking Jacob’s Oils in the UK in the summer of 2016.

At first it was a slow seller.

But sales increased significantly just before Christmas 2017. His media profile seems to be rising even as the light dims over his former competitor Nigel of Nigel’s Creams for democratic boils.”

LCD Views has to say we were amazed to see Jacob’s Oils recommended on the ITV Robert Peston show, on the 4th February 2018, by former head of the civil service Lord O’Donnell in his reference to a group of government snake oil salesmen.

Upon further investigation Dominic Raab and Micheal Gove suggested they use Jacob’s Oils to promote their chest hair growth.

This concurs with the buyers in South Dakota who said they also bought the product following Melania Trump, and her slip of the tongue to Voque, about The Donald and his use of numerous hair growth products.

“Donald recommends Jacob’s Oils by Reeks & Smogg, instead of Brylcreem, every day. Just rub it on your brain and you’re away.”

It’s almost as if they’re all in on it together…

Great news for careerists at Westminster with the news that Conservative MP’s caught lying about civil service conspiracy plots to undermine Brexit, will now be automatically added to this year’s honours list.

”It’s especially good news for Steve Baker MP and outdated f*ckwittery engine Jacob Rees-mogg MP,” our parliamentary correspondent says.

”Allegedly, and it’s not confirmed, the evidence is only circumstancial and damning, the two cooked up a plan to rubbish civil service economic forecasts produced by the Westminster comedy club, DExEU, for use in planning the United Kingdom’s destruction.

After the destruction we will rebuild as a tax haven. It’s nice.”

While all of this is pure speculation, it’s believed the two honest brokers decide to beat the living hell out of the truth in order to make it fit their ideological purposes.

”If it was a con-spiracy to smear the civil service by abuse of parliamentary privilege, it was pretty bloody hamfisted, cynical and pathetic,” our correspondent adds,

“imagine being that devoid of integrity and lacking that much respect for democracy and the position of a people’s representative?

Old school public school bully mentally. Pick on the ones who can’t fight back. What a lark! And serve your own ends in the process. Nice work if you can get it, like being an MP and all the expenses and privilege.”

Asked for comment on what sanctions will be taken against the devious, truth fighting duo, the terrified and clueless woman who thinks she is the prime minister issued the following statement,

“On the 23rd of June 2016 the British people voted to ensure all Conservative Party MP’s caught lying in parliament to be automatically included on that year’s honours list.”

The British people have spoken, now let them be quiet.

Scientists from the Institute of Exasperation in Coalchurch, Essex,  have issued a statement today revealing the perpetual futility machine is nearing the end of its working life.

”It lasted a lot longer than we expected with such a small power source in the CPU,” Professor O. M. Gawd, told our tech boffin.

”We may decide to end the experiment early or we may not.”

The Professor revealed that the experiment had exceeded expectations too in one key area.

”The sheer amount of futility generated has really been something, especially if you’ve been caught in the area affected by the PFM.

The drag zone, to get all techie on you, the drag zone has been detected as far away as the east of Europe and even some days the Middle East.”

Will they be working on a successor model?

”We’re not sure we can get the funding. Our donors aren’t keen.

Although there is maybe one or two EU27 citizens in the U.K. who are not yet caught in the drag zone, most indigenous people have been.

But it would be worth it to measure the impact on them. Just what is the gross futility a PFM can generate?”

So what’s next?

”We’ll place the machine on a quiet bench, somewhere in the back, to power down when we’re sure it’s finished its working time.”

This will allow you to focus on the next project at the Institute for Exasperation?

”Yes. The Boris Boris Boris Engine. But we’re not sure if releasing so much nonsense into the atmosphere while the waves of futility are still ebbing away is ethical. We’ll have to debate it.”

Good luck Professor. We would like to say we’ve certainly felt the waves of the PFM in our office day in and out since mid 2016.

Whatever next?

Legendary British patriot and inventor of things that suck to varying degrees, James ‘I only move money offshore because I love Blighty so much it hurts’ Brexit Dyson has revealed plans for a revolutionary new prime minister who sucks even harder.

LCD Views’ political technology correspondent spoke to the legend himself to hear more.

“Do you ever get the feeling when you look at Theresa May that she doesn’t quite suck enough?” Dyson asked.

No. We don’t. We think she’s at about 200,000 watts already.

“Do you ever think, if I designed a prime minister, they would suck even harder than this one?”

Who is interviewing who here?

“Well I do. When I’m counting my money in my little house in Malaysia, wondering how to get more tax efficient, because that’s how much I love England, I pause with my pencil above the yellow legal pad and I realise if I designed a prime minister they would suck even harder.”

Finally a statement and not a question.

“Do you know what I’m going to do about it?”

Here we go again.

“I’m going to design a Brexit prime minister that sucks even harder than Theresa May. A Brexit prime minister that will just crash out of the EU and let the chips fall where they may.”

Dyson went on to reveal he has already finished the sketches and his perfect prime minister to lead the country through these troubled times would look something like a fop caricature from the Edwardian period. Maybe even earlier.

“Do you ever decide to go on an ideological crusade against one of the pins underpinning peace in Europe since WW2 because you lost a battle about environmental standards on vacuum cleaners years ago? And you’re so convinced of your God given right to do whatever the hell you want that you can’t handle it?”

Finally one we can answer.

“No. We don’t. What’s the tax regime like in Malaysia?”

LCD Views’ parliamentary reporter has phoned in from a pub off Westminster Green to reveal MP’s are dropping support for Brexit like a bag of flaming shit.

”It’s an obscure bit of legislation attached to the 1974 European Economic Communities act,” O. Cromwell reports,

”basically, the law links the future pensions, and the present ability to claim expenses, to the success of any future EU withdrawal bill. And curiously, demands, post any withdrawal, that supportive MP’s only eat imported American grown food. Nice bit of foresight.”

It seems very few members for parliament are aware of the existence of the law, named ‘the decline and fall blowback provision’.

”So few MP’s have engaged in any serious investigation of the ramifications of Brexit, that hardly any we’re aware Brexit may have a personal, financial cost.”

Is that because most are confident they can just hide in the shadows, let the disaster happen, and then say,

‘I was only following orders. Can I have my pension now please? I’m retiring to work on the board of a company linked to the ministry I worked at while in government?’

”Something like that. Teflon suit sales are booming. It’s one of the key British industries that are finding tangible benefits from Brexit.”

But can’t MP’s just repeal the bill and continue to claim?

”In theory yes. However, they would have to abolish the constitutional monarchy to do so, thanks to the link to the “absolutist reform bill” of 1689, which linked any future European Treaties, designed by a post war generation of MP’s, to the threat of return of absolutism. Very few are willing to do that.

They don’t want to be remembered as the generation that elected a president, especially with what’s going on across the pond. Although, arguably, the Henry VIII powers in the EU Withdrawal Bill are doing more than that, if passed.”

So Brexit is finished?

”We’ll have to see about that. The majority of MP’s really backing Brexit, the ultras, keep their cash offshore in US and Euro accounts. The bigger the disaster, the bigger the profit for them and the gaggle of dark money backers of Brexit. This might just encourage them.”

How will Labour respond to this?

”They’ll have Keir Starmer write a ditty and play the ukulele in the commons, like usual, but they’re likely as things stand, to be the last party still holding the flaming bag of shit.”

A Downing Street insider has phoned LCD Views, repeatedly, to tell us that Theresa May’s work phone is now just going straight to voicemail until she works out what she wants.

“I was experimenting to see if something was wrong,” the insider said, on the promise of anonymity,

“I stood in the hallway and phoned. The phone is on her desk. But she wouldn’t pick it up.

It just rings with her “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” ring tone for about thirty seconds before the voicemail kicks in.

God knows how Donald is going to get through to her to talk turkey when it’s time to sell U.K. plc to the yanks?”

The insider believes the reason is Ms May is worried Angela Merkel will phone, again, to ask her what she wants, again.

“She has no idea, of course, just a fuzzy idea about being Britain’s greatest prime minister, apart from David Cameron.

Never go out for a quick bite with her. She can stare at a menu with four options and never decide.”

But surely she has some aides who can answer for her?

“She has several. But they aren’t allowed to touch her phone. She’s a bit of a control freak. All detail. No decision.

The aides are mostly in trouble and standing in the corner facing the wall anyway.

It’s a bit of a shambles, if I’m honest. But I love her sense of self appointed authority.”

But what if a Tory party donor tries to phone?

“She’s definitely not answering.

Not all of them think they’ll profit of crashing out of the EU, tanking the currency and flogging off the NHS to the yanks.

Some are actually pretty cheesed off. Which is weird. Money is supposed to always make money. Unless the government is completely screwing up everything.

But that can’t be the case, because the official opposition are aligned on the most important policy matter.”

We asked our insider to try one more time and we’d record the call.

They agreed.

“Nope. Just U2…now the voicemail. God she sounds terrified.

Hello Theresa, it’s Kate Hoey phoning again.

We need to talk soon about how we’re going to stage manage the EU Withdrawal Bill when it returns to the Commons.

I can’t give Starmer the notes if you won’t talk to me. Please phone back. My number is 666. Thank you.”

The scandalous news today that Wales is to give 16 year olds the vote in council elections has caused a justified outcry among much older, wiser people who voted to quit the EU because of a big, red bus.

“It’s scandalous!” Reg Reg-Reg frothed,

“a sixteen year old is not mature enough to decide their future.

Why, some of them don’t even bother to read the side of a bus when deciding what to do [regarding complex economic and social changes].”

Reg Reg-Reg is not alone.

Millions of middle aged, and up, people this morning are considering starting a petition to turn back this clock too.

“Okay, they’re mature enough to decide at which university, being transformed financially along neocon ideological lines, they wish to gather £50K worth of debt at,” Reg conceded,

“They’re old enough to become an army cadet, setting themselves on a path to get blown up in some hellish conflict to celebrate being old enough to vote.

They’re even old enough to have sex legally and start a family as a consequence, as ill advised as that maybe, maybe not.

And they’re mature enough to be able to legally drive a moped, this taking their own life in their hands on the roads, and potentially causing an accident, or not, involving people of voting age.

But I’ll be buggered if you can convince me they’re mature enough to influence their immediate future at the ballot box.”

That’s only for older heads.

The sort of heads that see a big blonde man boy bouncing about in front of a lie on a big, red bus and ditch all critical facilities and vote for the bus.

“Give sixteen year olds the vote, where will it end?” Reg Reg-Reg demanded,

“foetuses will be voting next.

Just like what happened with equality of marriage. People started legally marrying furniture the day after. This progression of society and its values has got to stop.”

Reg Reg-Reg did call LCD back later to add, sixteen year olds should be able to decide to attend public hanging if they want.

Just as well, because many Quitters favour that.

The will of the people, you know you want it, just not until you’re old enough, as determined by a man who voted based on…

The Westminster bubble was at risk of bursting irrevocably this lunchtime with the startling news that Yorkshire has applied to the EU for vassal state status.

“We expected Londoxit, maybe Scotxit, Welsxit, potentially even Cornxit, but never Yexit,” a baffled Westminster insider told LCD Views,

“although the more the phrase ‘vassal state’ is used, admittedly the more attractive it becomes, given the human rights stripped away by inheritance millionaires alternatives.

But don’t write that down, I’ll be locked up for treason just for speculating on alternatives to the current ‘hard brexit’ path.”

Yexit details are still sketchy, but it appears the mystery surrounding the recent frenzy of work taking place within York, to add height to the ancient city walls, and extend them to encompass the entirety of Yorkshire itself, has now been explained.

“We can’t even send a Today programme correspondent up to shout will of the people at them without pause,” a puzzled John Humphrys told us after HE phoned us (in a panic),

“they’ve told us we have to apply for a visa and we have to do it via their new embassy in Brussels!

And what’s more, we’re unlikely to be granted a visa unless we apply for citizenship of Yorkshire first, but we have to do it in person at Yorkminster, which we can’t visit without a visa, which we can’t get…”

It’s believed the motivation for the declaration of independence, and application to the EU, was fear of one of Britain’s leading 19th century statesmen.

“They appear to have clocked that Jacob Rees-mogg, and other prominent Brexiters, actually couldn’t care less for the economic fate of their region,” our baffled Westminster man said,

“something to do with JRM tabling an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Withdrawal Bill that will also rescind the “Statute of Labourers 1351”. Whatever that was, something to do with freedom of movement of workers. JRM claims it’s led to an unacceptable inflation in the wages of his fieldworkers.”

Sadiq Khan has also been approached for comment, but all his office would say was that he was ‘A bit piqued to have been pipped at the post. He was planning to declare London’s independence in the spring after he had settled a city state alliance with Edinburgh’.

But they had no more comment as he was awaiting May’s speech in Davos, so he could laugh himself silly at whatever new gags she’s thought up for her ‘Scared But Still Standing’ comedy show.

“That’s probably the key to the timing of Yorkshire’s declaration,” the insider added, “while the cat’s away and all that. None would dare defy the Prime Minister while she was at home sitting on the throne.”

More on this story as the YGA movement grows.

LCD Views’ meteorological correspondent reports that there is, happily, no longer any chance of hearing warnings of bad weather looming from the BBC, thanks to a more patriotic and sunshine based set of forecasts.

“People no longer need to plan holidays away, you know, in the lands of dragons across the sea [The English Channel]. That’s because every day is going to be just lovely now, regardless of what remoaner barometers say.”

To find out more, we had our correspondent skip along through the dazzling rays to speak to one of the Beeb’s chief meteorologists, Nick Robinson, to understand the thinking behind the change,

“The bad weather is over. The duty we forecasters had to warn of shit storms, floods of negative growth and other events that require people to turn off their fans, is over.

Why? Because there are no longer various types of weather systems experienced by the United Kingdom, only sunshine. We’re now the united sunny uplands kingdom, if you will.”

This sounds exciting. I’m throwing away my winter coat and stocking up on sunscreen before the run on stocks.

“The BBC’s job is not to look into the distance wondering if blithe assertions of endless summers to come are completely crackers, just because some turtle on a fencepost with a corrosive greed based ideology who aims to personally profit from disaster, promised the good weather.

Whether you like torrential downpours or not, we’re giving you sunshine!

Sunshine!

Ignore the clouds!

Get out and risk a little heat stroke. You know it’s an achievement to get sun burn in England. There is absolutely no risk of skin cancer. Ever. Again.

Our job, now, is to encourage everyone in the country to pack a picnic basket and go to the common. It’s the new balance, if you will.

Stretch your legs out.

Do it today.

Worry not if you see an immigration enforcement van rounding up some subversive, university educated Europeans for an illegal detention before they’re marched across the Boris bridge to Calais.

Those lawsuits are for tomorrow. And if the plaintiffs aren’t in the country, what are they going to do? Appeal to the ECHR? Ha!

And to cement this sunny change to our land my colleague, John, and I will be recording a special charity single of ‘It’s a lovely day tomorrow’, to be broadcast each morning on the Today programme. Get behind it. We’re all Brexiters now! I mean, sunbathers.”

We’ll that’s reassuring, it’s like the entire UK has turned into the Costa del Sol suddenly, just with less Brits…