ET TU GOVE ! TRUMP NEXT?

The King did NOT see this coming!!

BORIS BOTTLES IT 

Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Michael Gove challenge --the Guardian Newspaper

Boris Johnson did not make a noble sacrifice - he threw in the towel because he was beaten-Daily Mirror[UK largest circulation tabloid]. 

 For those who do not know:

 Michael Gove is the current Secretary of State[cabinet member] for Justice--no really.

Previously he had been Minister for education and Chief whip.

 He has been a close friend of David Cameron and Boris Johnson for over 20 years .
He is 'cerebral' and passes for an intellectual in the Conservative Party.

                                                                                                                                                

He campaigned alongside Bonking Boris for Brexit.He then announced his support for Boris in the internal Tory Party election to succeed Cameron.

It was expected he would lead Boris's campaign and then become Chancellor of the Exchequer[Finance Minister]. 

                     It seems he changed his mind.

   OK But Why Did  Bonk[ers/ing] Boris Quit the Race ? No one really knows and the speculation does not add up.

 He did not want the job of PM after all   --     they have to be kidding.

•  He had a crisis of conscience about destroying a fellow Old Etonian --they do not do "conscience" at Eton.
•  We now know what happens when the dog catches the car.
•  He panicked at the thought of leading the Brexit negotiations--he could have delegated that to Gove;then dumped him from the Cabinet when he failed to square the circle.
• He never wanted or expected to win Brexit referendum and was just positioning for the succession to Cameron in three years--sounds plausible.-OOPS-.But anyway why does that mean he has to give up the pretense and drop out?
• He knew he would win and was terrified of the prospect of becoming the Tory Jeremy Corbyn.A laughing stock despised by eighty per cent of his parliamentary colleagues.Too late now.
• His wife of 23 years MARINA WHEELER QC is not comfortable with the role,exposure and lack of privacy that comes with being the PM's  wife.--They just realised that?After 8 years of London Mayor,Buffoon Boris ?
• He thought he would not have enough time to finish biography of Shakespeare--he really is writing one.
• He thought that with Gove's entry into the race the Tory Party's Brexit vote would be split and he would lose to Theresa May.But the election system is a process of elimination  though successive ballots until two candidates remain to be sent to the party membership for a final vote.Surely it would be expected that he would beat Gove--"he who wields the knife shall not wear the crown"--and gather up his support against the leading Remain candidate.
• He had major and swift buyers remorse and as a result is sacrificing his political ambitions to save the nation--still kidding.
• He consulted with his doppelganger Donald Trump who advised him that UK PM was penny ante stuff and that he should syndicate his own reality TV show.
• He plans to run for President of USA  instead.Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was born June 19,1964, on New York's Upper East Side.Really he is a native born US citizen.The first step will be to run as Trump's VP candidate.He has shown the Donald his birth certificate--long form.
• He has been struck by Colpo di Fulmine[lightning bolt] for Theresa May and is terrified it might not be reciprocated if he ran against her.He has been watching endless re runs of Michael Corleone in God Father II.
• He is bored.
• Bonk[ers]s Boris IS actually CRAZY.

Whatever the reason he has severely damaged his party--cf: Donald Trump--and they will never forgive him.Michael Heseltine a Tory Grandee who served in Mrs.thatcher's Cabinet was interviewed last evening on BBC TV.  http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36677623 

   SILVER LINING

For the UK the whole referendum process has at least produced elements of a silver lining.

The three Bullington Club [all male Oxford "dining club",by invitation only--unless the son of an Earl] Old Etonians have now been ruined --politically that is,money will not be a problem.

 PM Cameron has arranged for 3 referendum in 5 years.Scottish Devolution,on an Alternative Voting System and on Brexit. Prior to that there was only one nation wide vote,1975,in my lifetime.I am very old.Each of these were held so that Cameron could duck a political problem he did not have the wit,courage or perspective to resolve through Parliament.These referendum have no place in the British Constitution and are anathema to the concept ,tradition and wisdom of  a representative democracy.They were not binding on Parliament.

He got lucky on the first two but did not learn from the mess created by that on Scottish Devolution.Despite a narrow victory for his side he put his nations entire cohesion at risk.This last on Brexit he lost.He has created a serious political,economic and social mess.Not just for Britain but for the whole of Europe and has put the world economy at risk for another recession.All to buy some time within his own Lillipution Party.It is the end of his political career.Cry no tears for the over promoted PR man.

George Osborne has been perhaps  the worst Chancellor [Minister of Finance] since WW II .He had plenty of competition.His stupid fixation and refusal to increase public spending on capital projects has been a major recent cause of  national disaffection.He tried to scare the British into voting his way and in final desperation threatened  an austerity budget of  spending cuts and and increased taxation.How little he understands of the people he sought to rule.

In the space of a year he has gone from the overwhelming betting  and pundocracy   favourite  to succeeed his Eton/Bullington chum Cameron; to hustling for any kind of  place at the table..He will be lucky if he gets a spot in the next Tory Cabinet.It is the centenary of the the Somme.Osborne represents that grand tradition of his class.A Donkeys Lording it over British Lions.

Then there is Boris.Enough said.He knifed his Eton/Bullington friends in the vainglorious pursuit of  power,fame and position.Ditching a lifetime commitment to Europe in the process.Come the day he has no idea what he wanted to do with the power.Lenin could have written a Tract just on Boris--but then Lenin could write a  tract on anything.The Bolshies were big on Tracts.Pity Jeremy can barely understand reading one--but I digress.Boris  lost "it" when it mattered.Wellington said that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.This European adventure not so much.

                                                                             A LEAVING GIFT

 I propose a national whip round for their farewell gift.

   A Single Pig to share--as in their good old days.

  

CAMERON gets the HEAD---of course.Plus one Testacle for the PR man evader..

BORIS  gets/is  a HAM-geddit--,the snout and the other Testacle for the election ducker.

In each case one ball is better than no balls at all.

They can each get some Tripe to boost their intestinal fortitude.

Georgeous GEORGE gets  the pork belly and a case of Diet COKE to break his 5/2 diet fasting.

He also gets the a pigs ear to aid him in listening to his fellow Brit


Could Boris's crash be a Harbinger for his mate TRUMP.Here's Hoping.

Cyclop Epistle to the People of Britain

                                                           Ever Been Had?

Campaign Promise :

 We'll give EU cash to the National Health Service "enough to build a brand new, fully staffed ... hospital every week" 

      
 NOW:

"No I can't [guarantee it], and I would never have made that claim. That was one of the mistakes that I think the Leave campaign made,"—Nigel Farage

 

The campaign didn't say "all" of it would go to the NHS but "a significant amount of it" would.---Ian Duncan Smith

 

Campaign Promise :

"We'll take control of the UK's borders"  -immigration was key to Brexit campaign

 

NOW:

• "I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe – and always will be--British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down”[Cyclops: vice versa?] "It is said that those who voted Leave were mainly driven by anxieties about immigration-- I do not believe that is so” -   Boris Johnson yesterday.
• “EU citizens will still be able to live and work in Britain and British people will enjoy the same privileges across the EU”
• Johnson reportedly sought to reassure Remain voters the UK will continue to "intensify" cooperation with the EU and told his fellow Leave supporters they must accept the 52-48 referendum win was "not entirely overwhelming". 

Nigel Farage warns Boris may be back pedalling on EU immigration promises made in campaign—daily express

                                              Need I Go On

                                 TO BORIS etal:                               FROM ELECTORATE:

                           



         

 

                                  Do Bad things come in Threes

•          Friday                         BREXIT
•          Monday                     ICELAND RULES
•          Thursday                   QUEEN ABDICATES—Charles Invites Corbyn to Palace                                                                            [to join conversation with the plants]

PS: I asked one of Jeremy’s old icons. What he thought of his campaign to help the REMAIN vote.

 

                                                 

PREDICTIONS

Events are moving faster than i anticipated.Major pressure from my court for King Cyclops to make predictions for the future.But its hard enough making predictions on the past!

I note that more and more commentators are waking up to the fact that the REFERENDUM is not binding on Parliament.I do not have time now to give all my "reasoning" so here are some prediction

 PREDICTIONS

• Many Members of Parliament will vote their conscience and reject the referendum
• The Lords are unelected....
• The UK will not leave the EU
•  Head of a major country in the EU will soon make a speech stating that "the EU has been deaf to the legitimate concerns of the European people " time has come for a radical review and overhaul of EU rules" and the way the EU operates.
• Corbyn deposed.Idiot  MILLIBAND gave us the 3 QUID voter..The adults will remove him.
• The YOOF may now reconsider!
• Theresa May beats Bonking Boris.
• Election called before end of year.
• The four major UK  parties led by a REMAIN politician 
• The whole michigas[madness] will be reversed within a year.Looking for a bookie to take my bet.
• Buyers Remorse Rules

From a Duchess:More  a hope than a prediction: J-C Junket (that was an auto correct but I'll leave it as it's so appropriate) will be a mere baddie that we frighten our children with when we tell them what it was like in the bad old days.

BLOG RESPONSES

  I have received multiple responses /questions on the Brexit issue.A summary/ sampling below, followed by a response.sorry about some repetition but the QUEEN  needs to use  this PC so I need to PUBLSH NOW. 

Q:Do you think the new referendum has legs?  Is legal basis clear?

comments:

• a general election will come sooner rather than later; a new Prime Minister is necessary so as to lead the exit negotiations with the EU;
• Labour is dysfunctional, partly as most of Jeremy's shadow cabinet believe that his - non - leadership in the referendum was intrinsic to the negative result:
•  various commentators choose to now see that the referendum result effectively sidelines a whole political class, from both main parties.
• the UK is now in a severe constitutional crisis. 
• Only Putin and Trump are happy with the result
•  UK may ask[itself] for and get a do-over
• If I were Scottish, I would certainly want out of the UK in order to stay in the EU.There goes the oil... 

Yes legal basis is clear.
 It has no legal weight. 
Parliament can do what it likes.

Please see blog from June 13 .   BREXIT--  FOOD FOR THOUGHT  

  To my surprise and satisfaction [self congratulatory pat on back] things are beginning to pan out as speculated. Only faster than I imagined:

            1. Markets panicked ,not just in UK but everywhere ,against the dollar sterling went from  $1.50   to 1.36 to the pound-           -[-9.3%]

euro from  $1.14 to1.09 to the euro  [-4.4%]

major stock markets down from 3-8%,with ironically the Uk at the lower end of that range and Germany at the higher end.

We will see what this week brings.

         2.Cameron resigned. Bookies and the Pundits tip Boris Johnson, a leading Brexit Tory to get the leadership. So expect Theresa May, a moderate non hysterical Remain cabinet member to get it!

        3.Blood on the floor over Labour's Corbyn dreadful campaign. See todays blog "Corbyn -Exeunt Stage Left" .Since that blog  twelve  out of  30 members of Labours shadow cabinet have resigned .More are expected tomorrow[Monday]

       4.I think he is done either by Tuesday or after the party annual conference in October.                             The new leader will be more enthusiastically REMAIN than Corbyn.

       5. The Liberal Democrats have pledged to take Britain back into the EU, claiming the Brexit was secured on a campaign of lies.

       6. All these leadership elections will allow the Brits to delay going to a Parliamentary vote before their party conferences after the summer.

       7.They will find an excuse to call an election for a new mandate. Easily done either through a quick vote in the House of Commons or the PM going to the queen.

       8. The 3 major parties and the Scot.Nats will be led by REMAIN politicians.

        9. For those who follow such things depending on who labour chooses I will bet 2 or 3 will be led by competent women REMAIN candidates. Ironically the fourth will be led by a rather pathetic male--also REMAIN.

     10.The quality of the election debate will be much better and more sober.

      11.Most astonishing to me:  a petition to effectively nullify this vote and hold a new referendum under more strict rules-minimum turnout and majority rules and to make it binding if result meets these rules- has been signed by 3.5 million people in 2 days.That's equivalent to over 10% of those who voted on Thursday and is extremely unlikely to be only REMAIN voters.

      I am really looking forward to Tuesdays Labour MPs internal vote and the first debates in both the Commons and Lords.

Of course the "Statesmen " of Europe,led by Monsieur Juncker are calling for the UK to arrange a swift exit. Idiots.I recommend that a period of silent reflection would be a wiser strategy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-referendum-result-lib-dems-remain-liberal-democrats-live-policy-stay-leave-a7103186.html

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-really-really-hoping-this-theory-about-david-cameron-and-brexit-is-true--bJhqBql0VZ?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100

 http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/25/lib-dems-promise-to-keep-britain-in-the-eu-if-brexit-sparks-general-election-5966965/#ixzz4CjolSa98

CORBYN-EXEUNT STAGE LEFT

I thought I needed to write a short analysis of why the vote went the way it did. But I note that there are plenty of pundits out there who recognise a howl of anger and frustration when they hear it. I attach a URL to a very fine article by Janice Turner in the London Times. She expresses my views better than I could myself.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ragtag-rebels-who-had-nothing-left-to-lose-lvwnsdwkv

Lest you do not read this, she argues that the Leave voters took this opportunity to say F**K YOU to the EU establishment, and the distant arrogant governments in London, Paris, Bonn Rome etc.That does not mean the other 2/3 who voted Remain or not at all feel much different.She, I and many others managed to resist cutting off our noses just to spite their faces.

And you panjandrum in Brussels, Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Luxembourg do not delude yourselves that the British are alone in this frustration and contempt.Do not conclude that somehow we are racists or petty minded little Englanders. Immigration is good but out of control, the EU has brought many benefits but the commission is arrogant, bureaucratic and corrupt. The EU has been part of what has kept the peace in Europe[only part] but there is a democratic deficit.

 We are more cosmopolitan liberal and tolerant than in generations past. That is to our credit Monsieur Juncker, not yours.You are the unacceptable face of the EU, the poster boy for Brexit, Frexit, Nexit and the rest; an unnecessary evil.

NOW TO JEREMY

                      Have you ever seen a boxer throw a fight ?

      No you haven't.Because it almost never happens.Its too difficult to conceal.Most of the spectators will spot it in instantly.Much easier to do in football.

     Comrade Clueless just threw the fight.Think not ? Just watch the videos.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36430606
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/14/corbyns-eu-referendum-speech-verdict-rambling-but-rather-special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrDt8FezDlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWK9mv1GmzY
How did his closest friends vote--Galloway -OUT
                                                   Piers Corbyn -OUT
                                    Seamus  Milne---you think he has changed his views of a lifetime?

 What result did Putin want?How about those EU sanctions on Russia because of  the Crimean invasionJezza still thinks that Russia is the injured party.Look it up yourself.

 To be fair to Jezza he has always viewed the EU as a "Capitalist Club".Which indeed it is.
      
 In the 1974 elections Jeremy worked full time in King Cyclops campaigns for parliament.Party HQ suggested sending in Shirley Williams [leading Labour Cabinet member in favour of joining the EU]for a campaign event.He went ballistic,threatening to resign and what not.He calmed down when he realised that I agreed with him and had already politely informed HQ that I thought somebody else would be more appropriate.The Prime Minister ,Harold Wilson came  instead.Its a long story.

He has the same views today as then .ON EVERYTHING.He thinks Venezuela is a better economic model.Again, look it up.This is not a man who has had an original thought in 40 years.Never saw the need for one.He prays not for Brexit but for the collapse of the whole EU economy.A step on the road to revolution and a workers cooperative paradise.Most of the left grew out of these fantasies  2 generations ago,before the collapse of the Soviet Economy.Not Jezza. He is a believer.Think Jehovah's Witness. Evidence shall not sway him nor reality intrude.

 Jeremy is a proud Marxist Leninist-Leon Trotsky division;and good luck to him.He might idealise Lenin[the hat and beard are not an accident]but I doubt Lenin would have taken him seriously enough to join Trotsky,Bukharin and Stalin on the Central committee.Just another "useful idiot".

 Still just think his performance was just tiredness or revealed a small degree of ambivalence.Well you should hear him when he defends something he actually believes in.
                                                             SAY
                     The virtues of Hamas
                     Piers Corbyn about Jewish influence in the media---oops I mean Zionist influence.
                    "No, my brother isn’t wrong".
                    Withdrawing from NATO.
                    Ken Livingstone is a misunderstood history buff.
                    Naz Shah [resettle all Israeli Jews in the USA]was not antisemitic,she just
                    overspoke.


            Of course he sabotaged the the Remain campaign.

But so what?Do you really believe that the disaffected and desperate of the Northern Industrial Heartland give a" tinkers f**k" about the views of a deluded Islington trot absorbed in the internecine minutia of the metropolitan left.Anymore than they were waiting for a lead from the Milliband boys.Theirs was a howl of anger and frustration.George Osborne did more than enough to finish off the Remain campaign with his idiotic rants and scare mongering.Too many diet cokes mate.Treating the electorate as fools works fine much of the time-- while they are not paying attention.But when we sit up and take note watch out.If only,if only we --the majority centre left--were better led.

 3 quid  leader Jeremy Corbyn  has proved the worst Labour leader since Ed Milliband--geddit?

 In any event,surely the adults in the Labour Party can finally take no more.Getting rid of Corbyn will be the easy bit.Coalescing around a SINGLE alternative will now test those who care more about the Party and its most vulnerable supporters than their own Lilliputian ambitions.I mean you,Prince across the water banana man--amongst others Chuka old boot.OK. I am now getting too inside baseball.

 I will stop here,watch George Gently on the telly and prepare for England to defeat  brave Iceland--or not.

I have been instructed by the Cyclop Ducheses, Woodford and Fortune to stop piddling around and give guidance.I will work on this and publish anon.

In the meantime: Remember Parliament has not voted yet.Whatever the idiot Jean Claude Juncker may want.We are still fully paid up members. The fat lady has yet to sing.



 Courages mes Braves   Kameraden lässt Rallye   Avanti Populo  solidarność    זייַ געזונט [zay gezunt]
                 

               I await the call at Great Falls deux églises

                   

 
                                         

Ireland 1 France 0

 First the important stuff.
I have just sat down to write this blog on Clueless Corbyn  while watching  France vs Ireland.Ireland have scored from a penalty in the second minute.

FRANCE A BAS

NO DISRESPECT MEANT.

The French and Irish have been "Brothers' for 500 years-common English enemy.

Just for this game Solidarity,Egalite,Fraternite are suspended.

.

France have much the better team but Justice must be Done

 
                                   Thierry Henri Keep your Hands in your Pocket

My only problem is that as I hear the French Fans sing La Marseillaise my eyes tear up and I begin to March.  http://www.marseillaise.org/english/english.html

King Cyclops must send this out Immediately before half time.Today we are ALL IRISH.Queen Cyclop's [nee Kennedy]brogue is getting thicker by the second.


footnotes: The most popular French Brandy                   Hennesy
               General De Gaule's great grandmother            Marie Angelique McCartan
               The only Irish cultural center in the world        Paris
 Robespierre's Jacobins inspired the creation of Irish Repulicanism;although English oppression was a greater motivator.


  An Irish  friend has just sent me this DEVOTIONAL picture given to him by his devout Catholic Grandmother.

 Its half time .The Clueless Corbyn Blog must wait

BREXIT --THE MORNING AFTER

   I will respond to the emails on the Brexit result  after I catch up on some sleep.

  In the meantime the answer to yesterday's question.

"A Tory party leadership election between two Old Etonian Chums:

Bonking Boris  -LEAVE

Gormless George -REMAIN

WHO WOULD WIN?

KING CYCLOP'S PREDICTION TOMORROW"

The answer is Theresa May

• She is NOT an Old Etonian,its all male and the only way she would have got in would have been as a serving wench. 
• For those with no clue about the minutia of  British Politicians.Think Margaret Thatcher with
  
  
  fashionable shoes.
  
  
• She is currently Home Secretary.
• Smarter and tougher than the Posh Boys and will make mincemeat of  Clueless Corbyn in a general election.

  As to my immediate response I copy below a slightly redacted email chain within the Royal Family.Excuse the mushiness towards the Princelings I am that kind of GRAND father.

Crown Prince Daniel:

A lot of really sad/shocked people at Glasto this morning :(

Duchess Fortune:

We're all moving to America. Clear out the basement. Until The Donald becomes POTUS.

Queen Cyclops:

Never mind the basement, you can have the entire top floor, no one uses it. Another plus, we have opened the pool. When should we expect you.

Duchess Woodford:

Tomorrow? We can stay for good, or at least until your elections. Then we will see if the Americans are as crazy as the Brits!!! xxx

Queen Cyclops:

Pack you bags. I'll try to find a private jet to send.

Duchess Fortune:

I note the invitation comes from you noble Queen.. My brother is keeping quiet on this one....

 King Cyclops Memo to the Royal Family:

 Regret my tardy response.

Went to bed at mid night .Got to sleep around 2/2:300.Just woken by the Queen with final results and to inform me that David Cameron has fallen on his sword.Apparently not literally.I have to go comfort grandsons.Prince Lachland ,Duke of Puke[10 months] is particularly concerned about the feedback to the Trump campaign.Prince Desmond,Baron of the Bus[30 months] is more concerned about the Constitutional Issues--and why that Mrs.Thatcher person stopped him getting British Nationality.

As to your request for asylum ,so graciously granted by Queen Cyclops, I will try to get The Donald's jet phone number,see if you can get a ride on his way back from Scotland.Prince Desmond thrilled that his  Aunties, the Duchesses of Woodford and of Fortis are coming to stay. He burst into a spontaneous verse of: ay loo loo loo.

I am sending my check towards buying that pig for Cameron. Analogies between pig in a poke and the referendum are there somewhere. Or is it poke in a  pig  in Cameron's case?

We will have to send secret emissaries to our far flung relatives. Just in case we all need Asylum after The Donald wins.
                          KING CYCLOPS Monarch of all he surveys.Which aint much.



   Addendum to the email chain:

It was really depressing to listen to the few pols who put heads above parapet once result clear.

Not one speculated on their responsibilities in a representative democracy. Just parroting that this is "what the people decided".This despite one interviewer pressing on the wisdom and constitutionality of such a small margin in a referendum determining how our elected representatives then vote in parliament.

 In the short run: there will be some financial dislocation[panic?]. I predict that the polls will indicate firmer support for Brexit and "Britain can do it" sentiment .This is cognitive dissonance avoidance.

Once the implications sink in watch for significant buyers remorse. Hopefully that will be very clear before parliament votes.

The "Lords to the Rescue"?

An election under new leadership before the vote?

The fat lady has yet to sing.

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

 The polls close in 33 minutes.So some final sneers before King Cyclops has any information on the turnout or exit polls.

Its raining cats and dogs.A favourite expression combining the Bitish  obsession with the weather and affection for their pets.

   Nothing would be more ironic than the future destiny of  Britain being  determined by the weather in South London 4 days before the start of Wimbledon

By the time many read this the result will be known and i give you just a few sage commentaries in advance.

“The people have spoken…the bastards.” –
Dick Tuck, after losing a race in California to Richard Nixon.


  The debate has been dreadful 


but the result still counts  or not as the case may be.

   There will be much interpretation:

   This from a man who should know

For the past 20 years this famous philosopher has been pondering the eternal question :

What The Meaning of "Is" Is

shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0

Now: what is the meaning of LEAVE or REMAIN in a parliamentary democracy?

THE VALUE OF PLEBISCITES

For the Christians Amongst You

There was a plebiscite wherein Christ and Barabbas were being judged .

The people chose Barabbas.

In 1934 Germany held a plebiscite to confirm Hitler as Fuehrer--90% voted yes

In 1938 there was a plebiscite in Austria to confirm the Anchsluss  with German

That sentimental chap Hitler wanted to be reunited with his homeland.

Stalin and Mussolini also were big on plebiscites

JUST SAYING

Whatever happens: Cameron must go.

A pigs head as his farewell gift.

A Tory party leadership election between two Old Etonian Chums:

Bonking Boris  -LEAVE

Gormless George -REMAIN

WHO WOULD WIN?

KING CYCLOP'S PREDICTION TOMORROW