IDS and the back stop

The BBC interview between Ian Duncan Smith and former  World Trade Organisation leader Pascal Lamy is a classic from today 29 April. 

Betty Boothroyd

It was a pleasure to hear her speak in the Lords. If you havent seen it here it is

Order! Order!

I  had some good moments watching speeches from the Commons in the debates. I was convinced that all over the country people were shouting " DIVISION!  CLEAR THE LOBBIES!"  and OrDER! OrDER!" as the Speaker kept saying!

Referendum March

My next memory : the march attended b y ab out a million people on Saturday 23 March 2019. It was a week before we were to hit the wires so we all marched! Well many oif us did. I hadnt done this for over 40 years. It was a slow business and our party from St Albans started near the Dorchester Hotel about 1.00 in Park Lane and ended up in Pall Mall near the bottom of Lower Regent Street! Here are a few pics to prove it! I was otherwise carrying half the wide banner you can see on the first picture. It was like being part of a pantomime horse.

They just want us to get on with it!

I am going to share with you some of my memories of BREXIT over the past few months.

"They just want us to get on with it!"

That's what Mrs May said and it sparked off this very funny little spoof video with the main protagonists doing a little dance!

Unbelievable!

If only I had collected the twists and turns, the jokes, the clips of the last two and a half years! I always seem to be reading about it, watching news about it, chewing it over with my long suffering wife!
Brexit has become like a swear word! People are frd up woth it! Yet it is so important.
We have a whole new vocabulary - backstop, hard Brexit etc etc.

It looked likely that the deal that Mrs May was championing would go down. As Lord Heseltime said weeks ago “Its dead!”.

Now tonight we had the vote and it was lost by 230. I was Shocked! Yes Shocked!

Its the biggest Government defeat since 1920......


Finally do watch this clip in which the PM speaks about  every deal except a meal deal!

https://news.sky.com/video/watch-theresa-may-say-deal-13-times-in-43-seconds-11603950

Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Last night I slept badly. This is very unusual. Yet I should have slept soundly because it might just be that the pundits on Newsnight last night were right.

• Mrs May's deal will be thrown out.
• Parliament have taken control. 
• It will not allow  a No Deal Brexit. 
• There will be no hard Brexit now. 
• Parliament can pull the plug on Article 105 so the EU legal gurus say. 
• Nigel Farage has resigned from UKIP.
• A second referendum is more likely.

Is Brexit dead and the nightmare over!!!!