The UK is now a failed state

At just about two in the morning today, Parliament was suspended to stop it scrutinising the Government.

Parliament was at the same time too weak so the UK had to leave the EU to restore its strength. But is also too strong for the Prime Minister to stand, so is silenced. The doors to Westminster are barred.

This is what happens in countries taken over by Juntas. Banana Republics. Fascist regimes.

By the time Parliament is due to sit again, Jools and I will be in America on holiday, so will miss the final two planned weeks of Parliament sitting before the planned Brexit date. By the time we return, the die will have been cast, and we should know what will become of this sceptered isle. This Avalon.

It has been taken over by a rich, provately educated elite, who broke the law during the election campaing and since coming into power after Cameron resigned, have tried every trick in the book to undermine and silence Parliament.

And when that failed too, they closed down democracy.

History will be damning on Johnson, his cabinet and the 350 or so MPs that stood by him. One good thing is that this marks the end of the Conservative Party, no one can pull the two sides together again, not after this.

Earlier on Monday, The Speaker announced his resignation. This was to allow this Parliament to choose is successor, not the one that comes post the election that will happen in November. Johnson's minority Government will struggle to get a sympathetic voice on the woolpack.

Johnson's and Cummings' plan to take on the opposition only made to make them stronger and united. The same way that Brexit united the EU27, then prorogation united the opposition parties.

What happens now is anyone's guess, but likely that Johnson's platform will be the people against Parliament, with he on the side of the "people", so he can further wreck what is left of the twitching corpse of the UK democracy.

The country will never be the same again, the institutions can never be put back together. brexit wreck everything it touches, four prime ministers, the conservative party and now democracy.

The UK is now in a dark place, where a no deal brexit is almost certain, but so is the break up of the union that makes up the nation.

I see no light, just the oncoming march of jackboots.