Gisela Gets It

As Gisela Stuart tried quite patiently to explain to some or other BBC person on the Today programme, this is really not a very right-wing Government at all. 

After tonight has Got Brexit Done, then even Auntie might have to take a look at its domestic policy of massive State intervention in the economy (you can do that once you are out of the EU), and at his foreign policy of telling the Americans to get lost on several fronts at once (we have not exchanged one foreign yoke for another).

It is all rather Jeremy Corbyn. They will water it down in parts, of course. But the basic formula will, as it were, remain. What else was Boris Johnson going to do? His only policy was Get Brexit Done, and that will happen in seven hours' time. He will then have nearly five years to fill. So he will fill them with this, since nobody has ever suggested anything else, and since he now has a Wall to stop from turning Red again.

But what of those who had thought that Brexit would herald Singapore Without The Sun? Well, their votes determined neither the outcome of the 2016 referendum, nor the outcome of the 2019 General Election. Nobody cares what they think, and there is precious little evidence that they think very much at all.

Like their next door neighbours who want Labour to become a party of reaccession, they could always join the Liberal Democrats. The Lib Dems are returning to their roots as the party of letting the market decide and of letting America decide, since America is the prototype of their project and of the equally bourgeois SNP's. Or they could wait and see how Keir Starmer turned out.

Yet neither the Lib Dems, nor the SNP, nor Starmer, will be in government after the General Election of 2024. I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.