An explanation of yesterday’s People’s Vote shenanigans. It really is 4D chess apparently.
Even Gina Miller was against it.
I don’t think last night was the time to lay down this amendment,” she told the Today programme. “Yesterday was about extension and the day before was about taking no-deal off the table. “You have to try to exhaust all the other options first, and if Parliament can’t resolve it, it’s at that point that it goes back to the people.”
This had the sort of slick co-ordination the government whips or Chris Grayling would be proud of.
To be fair the UK is a depressingly long way down that road already. And the EU’s record on, how shall I put this, ‘accommodating’ iffy financial practices is not the best (accession of Greece to the Euro, the fact that not even their own Court of Auditors has been happy with their books, although that is improving https://fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/, etc).
To be fair to him, he wouldn’t look out of place in a gathering of international economists. In fact he looks remarkably ordinary compared to many of them (or academics in general). However, as soon as he had opened his mouth to speak you would realise he was the oddest one out in the group.
I find myself asking this a lot these days… Reminds me of Armando Ianucci saying he couldn’t have written half of this shit in the Thick of It because people would have dismissed it as too far from reality…
Nor his replacement of European drinks with cheap British knock offs. it’s like going to one of those cheap Spanish all inclusive hotels, the drinks look familiar but taste fucking gopping.
