It doesn't matter who said it, but the comment floating around is
"If only Labour would act in the national interest."
And there is so much wrong with that idea.
It's the sort of thing politicians say when they're pursuing a policy of more than usual stupidity.
Every government claims to act in the national interest, and they always find that their own prejudice best serves whatever they believe that interest to be.
Labour believes that the national interest is best served by a Labour government pursuing Brexit in some manner pleasing to itself.
Nor is there anything wrong with that.
What there is something wrong with is this idea that there is a national interest that exists outside politics.
And when you turn it over with a stick, what you find crawling underneath "national interest" is class prejudice.
What you mean is that the middle class should set their politics aside and find unity where you prefer to imagine it, in class identity.
Why are all these middle class people pretending to be different parties? Can't we have a government of middle class unity?
This country is becoming very infantile in its thinking.
You've got a problem that your country has created entirely by itself, so it's not a real crisis involving external forces. It's just a domestic.
So you've got a political stalemate. Two sides facing each other, and no majority for anything in parliament.
Well, you've got a mechanism for that. It's called a general election. So what's the problem? I'll tell you what the problem is.
You don't want a general election because you don't like what this country might vote for.
And that is middle class prejudice. You don't trust people to vote the right way, so you want to abolish democracy. A government of middle class unity.
A government of middle class unity that you can impose your middle class prejudice on the country without the inconvenience of an election.
You make me sick.
What you can have is a general election, and I suggest you get your thumb out of your arse and start thinking about who you want to win.
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Okay. What is THE big problem of Brexit? What has been the one big problem all along?
Racism. And that's the thing the English don't want to face.
But you will face it with me. Why did people vote for Brexit? You know what the answer is. They wanted to stop immigration.
The far right and the far left have been stirring that up for years.
There's no point having any conversation about Brexit without acknowledging the racism behind it. People voted for it because they wanted to keep foreigners out.
"Issues over the protocol" as English newsmen call it is actually one issue - the Irish border. And the issue is not what kind of border but only the location of it.
My goldfish understands this by now. You can't put a border in Ireland, so it has to go in the sea. But Johnson can't survive that even though he's already agreed to it.
Botty Johnson is a spoilt child. There are two choices in front of him, he won't accept either and expects the world to present him with another, like the whole planet is his nanny.
With Sinn Fein the largest party in Stormont, the SNP by far the largest in Holyrood and promising to hold the balance in a Westminster hung parliament, the cracks are showing right through the United Kingdom.
I never did think the United Kingdom would survive Brexit. it certainly won't survive Botty Johnson. He is an ignoramus. he has no idea how to govern anything.
The Northern Ireland elections have only emphasised what was impossible anyway. there is no viable place to put an Irish border.
English news is obsessed with trivia and parliament is drowning in cowardice.
ENGLISHMEN - You have voted for something your government cannot accomplish.
ENGLISHMEN - Neither of your two main parties are capable of governing the country because of you.
ENGLISHMEN - Brexit was never possible. It must always destroy your country. The only way to stop that is to not do it at all.
During the 1990s the Tories had a choice of going two ways. They could either become a more centrist party hoping to win broad support across the whole United Kingdom.
Or retreat into pure English nationalism.
They chose the extreme because it was cheap and easy. They needed a Neil Kinnock, but they didn't have one. A succession of weak leaders left them captive to their far right.
With the result that the Tories are incapable of governing the country. All the backbench loonies are now in government.
They've wrecked the economy and very likely destroyed the United Kingdom itself.
The point is there is more to Britain than England, but you would never know it from English news.
Where does Scotland figure in the thinking of English news? And the answer is that it doesn't.
Why are the English obsessed with the idea that elections are between Labour and the Tories?