Did Anyone Feel The Bump?

No, I don’t mean the early morning quake on Teeside today.

I am referring to the speed bump in the road that was the passing of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill yesterday. Boris has got his Brexit Bill through.

And good to know that they ignored all the amendments agreed in the House of Lords, including an imperative to negotiate the arrangements for uniting unaccompanied children with their families being replaced by a promise to make a statement to parliament about it – sometime, maybe, whenever.

Of all the petty, pernicious and puerile blather that has emanated from the Brexit camp over the years, I still await a clear, rational and above all empathetic reason why you would use children as any form of leverage in the upcoming process.

From everything that has gone before – all the lies, posturing and populist grandstanding – I had absolutely no confidence that if they achieved their goal, that somehow the rhetoric would revert to a more compassionate approach.

Mend fences, bridge divides – bullshit.

Ther overgrown, over-privileged and now over-powered egotists will now proceed with their games of ‘Let us see how far we can push before things go belly up’.

And the indications have been there for a long time. Negative statements regarding the judiciary and rule of law, the ‘sanctity’ of fixed term parliaments, will become the new reality.

The acceptance of fact and truth as a basis for public discussion and policy has long gone, and the structures that hold society as a supportive function are next on the list.

And, as in the US, for the moment the electorate seem content to follow a buffoon they are happy to acknowledge as a lier, misogynist and a coward. Or rather, the majority of a minority of the electorate.

I have never yearned for anarchy as much as I do now. There needs to be a flood of all the pent up anger and hurt of the dispossessed, the ignored, the disenfranchised.

Wash it away, clear the arena, and plant some positive, supportive and compassionate options.

But firstly, clear away the shite!