clowns to the left, jokers to the right

Usually I’d sift through the April Fool's jokes today, but I decided that the rebuttal of them in one of the newspapers was probably the most interesting.

It described how British April Fool's jokes have been banned this year under an archaic parliamentary order, amid warnings the public can no longer tell the difference between reality and farce.

It went on to say that a statute from 1653 imposed by Oliver Cromwell forbade the telling of porky pies. Of course, our recent constitutional twists and turns are borrowing from similar sources.

I’m somehow reminded of those Magic Eye tuning/recording indicators, where the indicated gap would decrease as the signal strength increased.

For the referendum’s aftermath the true signal strength still leaves a large gap.

The fibs, the funding discrepancies, the original vote only being advisory, the denials of knowledge from some of those now seeking power, the information hiding, and so it goes on.

The spinners use current circumstances to illustrate that ‘democracy itself is in jeopardy’. These arguments are self-serving and conveniently forget the things that don’t help their ongoing case (which is to gain power). The realisation that it was impossible to keep a lid on all the original reality distortions for two-and-a-half years. There is a huge hypocrisy in claiming the will of the people when it is all about grubby personal agendas.

There’s bound to be more about this later, after the next set of indicative votes. I see the PM has instructed the Cabinet to boycott them - which anyway skews the percentages. Theresa May is operating in a contrived parallel universe in any case. Her dissociative behaviour ignores the marches, the petitions, the push-back, the lost votes. The dream reality confusion spreads wider creating personality disorders across key parts of Parliament.

I realise these indicative votes are mostly an attempt to make the unpalatable seem better. If something emerges as a better option it will be clutched at like a straw. As an obvious example, a drift towards a variation of a Customs Union or Common Market 2 - I could imagine Labour going with it to create more chaos. It's still a poor choice when it would have the UK on the outside of EU’s decision-making.

What does it amount to? No Vote, No Voice, No Exit.

Better to stay where we are and pretend the whole thing hadn’t happened.

Keep our votes, keep our voice and remain. #revoke, #remain, #reform

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