From the outside

An outsider’s point of view

I’ve not a got a scrap of UK DNA. As far as I can tell. I’m no pedigree or thoroughbred, that’s for sure. Me Dad’s lot lived on a farm a day’s horse ride from their nearest neighbours, and me mum’s lot (despite looking down on me Dad’s lot) were the ones with the olive skin-colour and the dark crinkly hair, one generation back.

So, I find the forelock-tugging, back-of-the-hand-roll-up-smoking, we don’t need a revolution, we’ll play them at their own game, an unending source of amusement. Hilarious. If we were in a football situation, you’d be on the receiving end of:

“Where’s your guillotine,

Where’s your guillotine?

You’ve still got a Queen,

My god, where’ve you been?

The one almost-revolution you’ve had just saw an anal-retentive, god-bothering fire / frying pan alternative set up what we have now. (The lady) and actually, no-one at all’s for turning, so what’s the point of a large, expensive, unwieldy debating chamber that pays no attention to the arguments and just sees everyone toe the party line and do what they’re told to progress their career? How many decisions in the past twenty or thirty years have even been tight, let alone gone against the party in power? What’s the point of all the blah when nothing changes?

The Prince of Darkness, ‘Lord’ Mandelson (‘Lord’, after mortgage fiddles, passport fiddles for Brazilian friends, self-proclaimed ‘comebacks’ amounting to being let off, again and again – what does ‘Lord’ count for, now?) had this to say about Cameron and Europe:

“We all know what’s going on inside the Conservative party. The UK isolation party and their fellow travellers in the Conservatives are sort of operating a Soprano-style protection racket inside the Conservative party. They are saying: ‘Do what we want, give us what we are demanding, or we are going to burn your home down’.

“Just because one wing – the provisional wing – of the Conservative party want to bring down their leader and change their party’s policy and are using this as an issue to do so is not a good reason to hold a referendum.”

So.

Read the above again. The ramblings of a lunatic.

Someone with absolutely zero concept of respect is citing The Sopranos. Rich. Too rich to contemplate. Peter Mandelson and Tony Soprano are so removed they may as well inhabit different planets. Let me live upon planet Soprano rather than Mandelson.

Revisit what Mandelson had to say, and little makes sense. Actually, none of it makes sense. In a democracy, what constitutes a reason not to have a free vote of all the people on any given question? Voted in, they claim a mandate from the electorate to run things. Asked to obtain a mandate from those people on a specific question, and they run for the hills.

Personally? I think we should stay in Europe. Without any doubt.

But personally I think we should summarily execute Clarkson, Mandelson, and Cowell, maybe with a little bit of torture first. For Cowell, at least, and a lot of torture first, for Clarkson.