I can’t work out quite why they want to have a TV face-off. Persuading we punters to support them won’t make any difference to what’s going to happen, and is more likely to encourage rather than prevent French-style street action. Showing who’s hardest won’t help much with the MPs who are their current problem; or opportunity, depending on which side that other Great Divide you stand. Unless, of course, there’s likely to be a second ref…sorry, I’m dreaming again.
“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...