Before we went to bed last night, I looked at Twitter, and the early editions of tomorrow's front pages were being shown.
The Mail on Sunday, usually a moderate paper as it has a different editor to the weekday version, leads to day with "no 10 probes remain MPs "foreign collusion". Apparently, there is a 13 page "democracy in crisis" special looking at links between some MPs and "France". Here's a hint, what about Mail owner, Lord Rothermere, who lives in France and pays no UK tax using a arcane tax loophole?
Or the Express "Boris would win election in jail". Where the right have gone from trying to stop prisoners having the vote to allowing on to be voted for in an election.
The Telegraph has a story that "Thatcher said Britain (not UK, note) would be better off outside EU. Yes, that is why she was the prime mover in setting up the Single Market, to allow not just UK companies, but all European companies trade in all EU countries.
Elsewhere, anonymous sources claim there would be riots if the UK failed to leave the EU on the 31st October, so setting up the possibility of enacting emergency legislation thus giving the Government massive powers.
This an talk of collusion and foreign powers make it sound like we are at war. The UK is currently in the EU, so how can the EU be a foreign power? And with the talk of riots, there is a massive increased threat to those who try to uphold our democratic institutions, in case of violent attack. And Johnson, Cummings hide behind unmaed sources and try to stoke fear and hate.
As ever, it is hard, if not impossible to see how the country could ever be put back together again.
I lay in bed pondering this for several hours. Johnson and Cummings will stop at nothing. We are all just disposable commodities. We don't matter.
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Those anonymous sources are what I was worried about. But the Supreme Court has, I think, brilliantly acted to stop Boris taking such powers without the consent of Parliament. I think that those judges may have been anticipating just such a move.
Boris is not a One Nation Tory, and most of the Tory establishment are. That is just one of the beauties of a public school predominance. Our Anglican heritage is anti-populist, even though Boris personally is a classic public schoolboy. Boris treats democratic politics like a game of chess, rather than a representation of the will of a people who need to be led by wiser individuals. In that respect he is more like Blair than Cameron was, I think. That sort of public schoolboy is attracted to politics, but they are not representative of the output of public schools.
Winning an election from jail, as though Boris was Hitler, is another thing that I was worried about. Jeremy needs to suggest someone other than himself to be the caretaker PM, or we will get that default no-deal Brexit, and Boris will look heroic to a lot of the crappier people of this country.
As for the future, there is a lot of cause for hope. Look at how moderate Germany is nowadays! Incidentally, isn't it ironic how German the headers of those newspapers look, with their uniformly Gothic fonts.
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