27th February Done (again)


In breaking news this morning the oven ready, done and dusted Brexit deal that we were assured was all signed, sealed and delivered back in 2019, will later this week be the subject of another attempt by the government to convince people it has actually happened.

With the PM Rishi Sunak increasing his carbon footprint with repeated dashes across the Irish Sea and English Channel respectively, all that needs to be done now if to get two differing parties who fundementally disagree about anything and everything to agree on the things that currently divide them the most.

In a game of Brexit pass the parcel, this tricky little conundrum has been passed from David Cameron, to Theresa May, through the slippery palms of Boris Johnson until it finally landed within the grasp of Rishi Sunak. Grace under Pressure doesn;t count the 44 days of Liz Truss' tenure as being long enough to actually allow her to understand what the parcel actually was or what she needed to do with it, dazzled as she was by the pretty paper and colourful bow it was wrapped in.

So get that champagne chilled and ready because once two irreconcilable viewpoints have been resolved and eleven truck loads of EU laws changed into British laws, Brexit will be done! Well done apart from the salad shortage, which might well be just the tip of the iceberg!!!




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

6th May Olbia

Image
  A chance to stretch our legs today with our first port of call; Olbia, Sardinia. And it was a quick stretch too due to it being only a five hour stay. Up bright and early, so early in fact that the hot food at the buffet wasn't even ready to be served. Still it gave us a chance to watch the ship glide into port past a host of oyster/mussel beds, before performing a 180 degree turn to reverse into it's berth. A couple of short bus rides later and we were in downtown Olbia. But there an hour or so before anything appeared to open, the disadvantage of being early birds and something we don't seem to learn! Not that Olbia had a great deal to see or maybe if we had done the slightest bit of planning beforehand there might have benn but we didn't. It was pleasant enough but that's about it. It was pleasant enough but nothing special, indeed we were back on the ship after just a couple of hours ashore and then managed to sleep away most of th...
Read more

7th May Naples

Image
 I'm sure I've heard the phrase 'see Naples and die' suggesting that it is perhaps not the nicest location in the Mediterranean but if it's good enough for Diego Maradona fir a few years then it's good enough for me for 10 hours. Although the millions of tax free pounds he was paid might have eased his stay. By the time we got up, washed, dressed and up to The Kitchens, the rest of the ship were already there. Compared to the Marie Celeste of yesterday it was absolutely packed, presumably with people having breakfast before heading out on 8am excursions, our excursion was simply going to be the city of Naples itself as possible trips to Vesuvius, Pompei or the Amalfi coast would have been too much / tired.  So on a day when the weather initially seemed uncertain, we jumped aboard route A for the Hop on Hop off bus and headed out into the mayhem that is the Napoli traffic where it was every van, car and scooter for the selves. I think it's bes...
Read more