Sky News and other
broadcasters must be busting their budgets right now on fees for
pundits - and on taxi fares to get them to the studios.
So many gobs-on-sticks are
being invited in to give their views on the Westminster impasse and related political
issues such as Brexit.
Nerds from think tanks,
piss-poor columnists from ailing newspapers (yes, I’m thinking particularly of you, Susie Boniface),
and loads of failed politicians … they’re all there, droning on, making me feel
short of oxygen.
Look, I know politics HAS
become a bit more interesting in the wake of the referendum in which a
modest majority voted for Brexit.
And the hung Parliament resulting from the recent General Election has certainly added to the intrigue and the
emotional impact of politics.
But, actually, I was not
personally impressed by the surge in support for Corbyn. He’s still a loser,
unpatriotic and naïve. And the fact that he has a young fan-base is a negative
thing, in my view.
I do feel sorry for Theresa
May, who was herself politically inept in following silly guidance from her
(now resigned) advisors Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, and in running a
presidential-style campaign (very unBritish).
So now May’s trying to form
and keep going a minority government by reaching an agreement with hugely
intransigent, anti-gay Ulster unionists, while at the same time surviving a
Machiavellian mega-bitch-fest underway among MPs of her own party.
Good luck with all that
Theresa! It won’t work, of course. Soon there will be a putsch, or something
approaching one in terms of rancour, and May will be finished.
Just for the moment, however,
before any Tory leadership election can be arranged, it's right there should be a bit of a
political lull, and a postponement of those talks on Brexit with the
political and bureaucratic twonks in continental Europe.
And during this wee hiatus, I
hope we can perhaps see some REAL news on Sky News and other networks – instead
of the endless political ‘analysis’.
I certainly don’t want to
hear young Owen Jones offering any more pearls of his self-proclaimed political
wisdom – that’s for sure.
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