Of left and right Brexit

The country is being held to ransom by the extreme wings of the two main parties, or in the case of the labour, both its extreme wings, as those on the Momentum Left and the Hoey right both desire for Brexit. Meaning those in the middle, i.e. most of us, are stuck, with calls for moderation or thought ignored or worse.

The Tory right we know about, all JRM and the ERG backed by shady funding by those billionaires and hedge fund managers baulk at the thought of EU money laundering curbs due to come into for at the beginning of 2019.

It is ignored how the rain campaigns somehow were allowed to overspend by up to 40% and the DUP spent a quarter of a million on pro-Brexit advertising. In London. How they came by that money and spending more than they usually spend on an election in NI.

Talking of the DUP, their leader, Ms Foster was up before a committee where er powers of recollection were somewhat lacking. In normal times her part in a failed and suspect green energy scheme and how hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer's money was pissed up against the wall; she should have resigned on principle, but things such as principle in modern politics are something of a luxury that the democratic process is no longer allowed.

The Labour party is as divided on Brexit at the Tories, and during the conference those differences were laid bare, but then again, with reality knocking at the door, who's to say what might happen. That Keir Starmer actually said reain was going to be an option is a step forward, even if both Corbyn and shadow chancellor both contradicted that, but in the last two years Corbyn has gone from suggesting he would have sent the A50 letter the day after the referendum to, in principle, supporting a 2nd referendum. But no option on remain. Yet.

In his closing speech, Corbyn suggested that if the PM's aims were the same as Labour;s then they should work together, thus putting the Brexit failure, or (if you want) the potential failure to be owned by the Conservatives.

Odd to then that the Brexiteers heroine, Mrs Thatch, was a staunch Europhile, and the prime mover in the creation of the single market, and seeing four years before its creation how it could benefit British exporters. Were she not an evil vampire and one of the undead, she would be spinning in her grave, and the destruction to the SM being waged in her name. I am no fan of Mrs T. Indeed I lived through the early 1980s, leaving school in 1982 when there were riots, strikes and entire industries either already wastelands, or being planned to be. I have lived through hard times, and despite probably being OK thanks to my job with a Danish country, I have no wish to see today's youth and young adults going through what mine did.

But that is what might happen, probably will happen.