We’re in hell - aren’t we?

Fingers crossed my next BA flight inadvertently lands me in Mauritius rather than Manchester.

The holdup is over the status of Northern Ireland. Remember, the island of Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state and member of the EU whose capital is Dublin, and Northern Ireland - a province in the United Kingdom whose capital is in London (normally it is administered by an assembly…

One thing not carried by most of our brave right-wing press was an open letter by Neil Basu, head of the UK’s counter-terrorism police, singling out newspapers (especially the Daily Mail and The Sun) for their role in radicalising the far-right:

I think today might have been the most depressing day in Brexit so far. I couldn’t believe it when Corbyn walked out of the meeting, but I think May’s televised speech might have been worse because it is going to have consequences no matter what.

It’s a ferociously-right wing newspaper owned by a pair of tax exiles. The paper has a long history and for many years was famous for its depth of coverage of domestic and foreign affairs. Until relatively recently it would have been considered a paper of record alongside The Times.

‘Broadly yes, hopefully a pom can let us know if the UK Government can just change PM with a party-room vote (ie nothing to do with the actual government at all) or if there are parliamentary rules about how often or when they can change leader.’

Wow - that’s a horrible choice you had to make. Did no one say ‘have you considered taking a look at Sweden?’

The Telegraph is a hard-Brexit paper. It despises May’s deal and has run any number of opinion pieces (because it hardly prints any news these days) on why No Deal would be splendid - and who needs agriculture, an automobile industry, national health service or aerospace anyway?

‘If Brexit served the interests of the rich and the powerful then no one would be talking about preventing it or redoing the vote.’

(AFAIK the office of “Prime Minister” isn’t even in our Constitution, it’s just a convention.)

‘a way to unfuck England’s deeply, hilariously fucked Brexit mess’

Yay! As if Brexit couldn’t get any worse we’ve now dropped into a whole new circle of hell where the UK gets sage advice from Don Jnr and John Bolton.

Did we cover the bit where Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory by William Craddick of the nutcase Disobedience Media that the UK invented Russian interference in the US General Election to help destabilise Russia?

I’m not sure the coalition argument is so important any more. I think the problem is that once a party falls to a very small percentage of the vote they lose access to the media - no one is going to ask them to contribute to the big debates - UNLESS - and this is a big factor - you have someone who makes for good…

Do we need to mention that you-know-who stuck his oar into the Brexit debate today?

Though it’s hard to pick out a particular highlight of today’s episode of this farce I think I’ll go with: Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay commending the government’s position to the House of Commons (in everyday language telling the House how to vote) - AND THEN VOTING AGAINST HIS OWN BILL!

Today, Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, and his partner Matt Barrett went to a breakfast meeting with Mike Pence. The PM then said:

Good points.

Wasn’t that in 1988? Since then how many miles have been flown by A320s and how many passengers?