Yes, her name escapes me too, as do most names these days. To summarise the last decade in UK politics.
Farage, the MEP who creamed off expenses from the EU whilst attending very few meetings for his bucks, formed UKIP which posed a real threat to the Tory centrists.
Cameron, aware that the right wing of his party were leaking to UKIP on their anti-immigration, anti-EU stance, promised a referendum as an act of appeasement to those looking over the fence at UKIP.
He got what he wanted, and had to provide the promised referendum whilst being a pro-European, just to keep the Tory power base united.
Cameron did not believe the British people so dumb as to believe the UKIP propaganda, and so approved a referendum without putting in any real democratic safeguards -ie a sensible voting ratio that would have prevented a Leave/Remain win on only a slight margin.
He promised, once the result was in and he realised his folly, to 'steer the good ship Brexit' unaware it was already heading for the inevitable ice-berg. He soon jumped ship and saved himself from being the worst PM ever by being succeeded by the woeful Theresa May who just couldn't navigate the ship to shore because the compass had been lost in the murky waters of the English Channel. Next? Boris Johnson, who clearly loved being at the helm and announcing to the people who had already gone, about being oven ready whilst floundering on the sandbanks of the Irish sea. Next? Liz Truss, who tried to keep the ship afloat with bags of lettuce but in the end had to hand over to another un-elected PM who just grinned inanely and tried to persuade what few crew he had, that he had five ideas to save the ship, completely unware that the ship was now aground with no hope of moving anywhere.
Meanwhile, UKIP regrouped and re-formed. In their little dinghy Reform are now flying the flag for the right-wing to get onboard. A few swimmers are in that boat, confident that they have something to offer in pushing the 'immigrants' back with their short and badly made paddles. It maybe some others will join the flotilla espousing the Dunkirk spirit, but not only are their boats inadequate for the job, they have nothing but waving flags to attract the poor swimmers who once they arrive cold and exhausted on the good ship Reform, will find themselves bringing down the whole thing and sinking into the bottom of the briny sea.
Meanwhile Labour have a nice cuppa in Downing Street and begin the process of restoring the sinking reputation of our tattered and bruised island nation.
No apologies for this post- I got a lot of my chest!
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