CAMERON COCKWOMBLE

"Bitter politics, there, yes indeedy..."

Got a little bit chatty about politics today for *reasons*, so I thought I'd collect some of those thoughts together in a little blog posting that will make no difference in the great scheme of things to the half dozen of you who find and actually bother to read it, but it makes me feel better to know it's there.

Someone suggested this week that we should have a referendum about whether to have a second referendum because none of them really know how many people would like a second referendum.

We are through the Looking Glass, people...

Sometimes you feel like there's a hurricane of insanity surrounding you and no matter how often you hold up your hand and try to say "but..." it gets drowned out by the roaring maelstrom of empty-headed screaming rage and fury...‬

Cameron was such a cockwomble to structure the thing the way he did (chiefly, it seems, from fear of losing more MPs to UKIP) - some (ANY!) kind of "third option" on the paper would have been less divisive and polarising, and the usual 70%+ for constitutional change figure that other countries use would have been sensible (even though the Blood Pressure "Just one vote difference is enough" Brigade would never have countenanced that).

Personally, I think (not that it matters) that he should have had two rounds - The first a vote on tighter border controls only, the result of which he could have taken to Brussels as leverage if necessary, and if change had not been embraced, then a further vote on membership, a different kind of membership, or total departure might have been on the cards.

This nonsense has always been about the uber-privileged Blood Pressure Brigade sector of that miserable Party of drooling buffoons, no matter how they try to dress it up as the will of about a third of the people eligible to vote on that day.

I do get really bloody tetchy about the fact that anyone who ever dared to venture a "Yes, but..." before the vote got immediately pounced on and shut down by the press and the self-interested monsters as being some kind of fearmonger, and that there was so little actual debate during those four months upon the likely consequences of anything other than the endless negatives of the migration story.

All of the allegedly "alarmist" stories that have emerged since about just about everything else (many of which have already happened) ought to have been talked about loud and proud - and the serious consequences of simply voting to "put to put one over on the child-abandoning pigf***er" - before one person went into a booth to mark their cross.

Future generations have been sold down the river on the selfishness of a few people desperate to cling to their notion of what the world ought to be and it's almost - no, I'd go further than that - it IS criminal.

I also get vexed by this notion that my age group is the one that wanted this, when forty percent of the over-fifties voted against departure which, whilst it is marginally fewer than in other demographics, it is by no means an insignificant percentage.

Meanwhile, the temptation for the entire PLP to henceforth bellow "Stupid Man" as one whenever Boris, J R-M, or DD speak must be IMMENSE...

Although the PCP will no doubt do that at JC first and that will no doubt be considered hilarieaux...

Murdoch's First Law: If you're a blue person, everything you do is right, upstanding, noble and for the greater good, but if you're a red person, everything you do is wicked, spiteful, and bound to bring about the end of civilisation as we know it, even if you're doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING...!

Not forgetting, of course, that we are expected to "respect the will of the people" in a country where huge numbers will vote to try to call a serious scientific research vessel "Boaty McBoatface" for "a bit of a larf, innit?" and possibly give as much thought to anything else they're expected to have some kind of influence upon.

...and it is always worth remembering that pretty much every single person you meet or hear talking who is over the age of 18 has exactly the same voting rights and power as you have, and that is the beautiful thing about living in a democracy. 

Probably.