A ‘Gammon’ is apparently a ‘white, puffy, pink-cheeked, angry, middle-aged Brexit voter’. I don’t think I’ve ever met one, but plenty called a popular midday radio ’phone in to be angry about being one. A ‘Gammon and proud’ said he voted Brexit because he ‘believed in the Commonwealth’. Which of course gave us the Windrush generation and many others, brought to take up the job vacancies in the NHS and elsewhere that no-one here wanted fill. I don’t seem to remember the ‘Gammons’ of the 60s and 70s being any happier about that.
“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...