There are five, often six in our household. For us, it’s TV on which it’s hard to find consensus. We older members are used to binary choices, the old BBC/ITV, on/off divide; but there are, of course many others now available. Most evenings we find a couple in favour of a celebrities-cooking- or fat-people-with-tatts-dating-type programmes, others wanting something Scandi, or even French, one or two favouring a WTO-rules, let’s-see-what-we-can-find evening. There’s only one way forward. We’re holding a series of indicative votes on Monday.
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...