So: for the Tories' vulgar little Festival of Brexit, shall we organise an event on "Rejoining the EU: How the UK will return to its European home"? Wouldn't want the whole farce to come across as divisive or exclusionist, now would we, Prime Minister?

I'm all for "depolarising politics". But let's be clear: upholding basic values of liberal democracy is not some extremist view, in any way comparable to radical hard right populism. Latter = polarised & needs neutering. Former = the norm, neither a problem nor up for compromise.

From March-July, every pesky expert in the country was shouting: use the facility available to extend transition; don't deliberately create a "double catastrophe" in the new year! Did the Johnson Regime listen? Of course not. They're such bigoted fools.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/24/uk-facing-risk-of-systemic-economic-crisis-official-paper-says?CMP=share_btn_tw

So: I wonder which act of faux Churchillian heroism that Johnson, in his infinite narcissism, is finally plotting to inflict upon us - as the ever-self-serving & typically twisted-out-of-all-truth climax to his game of "what jolly good fun this Brexit lark is"... Will it be:

We already know Boris Johnson's moral compass: insult the nation by ignoring lockdown rules and you're fine, but insult his fiancee and you're toast. So maybe if Our Delightful Home Secretary looks the wrong way at the PM's pet hamster, she'll finally get her comeuppance. Again.

Just had a super discussion. Spaniard, Swede, Czech and Irish talking about their common EU legal system & its (basically smooth) functioning across the Member States. A delightful reminder of something too easy to forget: our shared institutions & values bring Europeans together