Of Boris and Brexit

After a break for a day, back with Brexit talk, and really the main point this week has been the article Boris had published in the Torygraph where he compared women in Burkas to pillarboxes. Let us be clear at this point, Boris is not a fool, he is a career journalist, with a background of a high class education, so he is no fool, not matter how much he acts as one.He acts to further just one thing, himself, so pandering to the right's base instincts of racism or Islamophobia plays to the cheap seats.

It was just a joke, said Mr Bean, who seemed to miss the fact Boris did not say the words on a stage at the Fringe, but in a Daily newspaper. Accepting everyday Islamophobia, aexism, rasism, etc just legitimises it, and accepting Boris should just be able to carry on as if he did nothing would mean more than ever the tail is wagging the dog.

He broke the Ministerial code by taking up a columnist's job back at the Torygraph before the code's three month moratorium allowed, then used it to stoke hate. And it has stoked hate, with videos emerging online, one of a bus driver not allowing a hijab wearing woman on his bus until she showed her face.

Not only is this racism, but it is men telling women what they should do with their lives, from this, to looking after elderly parents instead of working, or abortion. Maybe if suit-wearing men worried more about people like themselves instead of oppressing women, so much the better.

It seems the Government has hatched a cunning plan to avoid delays at border controls between Dover and Calais, and that is to divert traffic via Belgium and Holland. Which is brilliant, until to realise that both those countries are both in the EU too, and would enact the same controls as France will.

Brexit means Brexit, of course.

Meanwhile, the Brexiteers are adamant that there should be no second referendum vote, no matter how much the public turns against Brexit, and the Will of the People should not be denied by The Will of the People. Which is about the level of debate we have in the UK now.

Parliament in the UK is on holiday, so there is little that will happen before 4th September, other than the clock continues to tick.

And the Daily Hate Mail is incensed to discover that restricting free movement of people goes both ways, and after Brexit, UK citizens going into the EU will cost £7 per visa.

Brexit means Brexit.

The Sun screamed that the UK should kick out any UK Citizens who did not find work in three months after arriving, thus missing out on the fact that we can do that now, as part of the EU, we just needed to set up a system for tracking people. But the Government thought the cost of this too high to implement, but now it's an issue, blame the EU rather than admit to their own stupidity.