I'm an insurgent, me

You too, maybe, if you voted remain. That's what Tony Blair, peace be upon him, has said. We should be allowed a second vote if we don't like the look of the negotiated deal they come up with, and I couldn't agree more. Naturally Downing Street has poured scorn on his comments, "The British Public has had its say" type of thing. So, are we never allowed to repeal a law that in retrospect doesn't suit our purposes in the cold light of day? Looks like a pretty big change in the British constitution from where I'm standing.

For once I agree with the Wealthy One, and that has happened only marginally more often than it did with Margaret Thatcher. We shouldn't forget, of course, that he was actually responsible for part of the mess we're in right now. In the economic booms of the mid noughties he was falling over backwards to invite over every foreign worker he could lay his hands on. The embassy in Bucharest was told to accept every application for a work visa to Britain, that's right, every application (I'm referring to the time before Romania joined the EU of course). Which opened the door to hundreds if not thousands of ATM fraudsters and various other crims to get over here and do their thing, because the embassy staff were told not to vet anyone at all. We're reaping that little whirlwind right now.

Little by little I'm beginning to realise why the far right was so keen on Brexit. They wanted all the constraints on capitalism lifted, every environmental check, every piece of human rights legislation, every brake on surging, laissez faire capitalism. That's what they always wanted, and pretty soon they're going to get it. They want to smash any vestige of union power Thatch didn't get rid of, so we can get back to the 1880s, when the workers did what they were told or they'd be out of a job. No wonder they don't want a second vote...