I guess the airwaves are filled with the Voices of the People because it’s the people, or around 27.4% of the UK population, who voted for Brexit. Anyway, two other loud views this week. From somewhere north-east: ‘If they cancel it, there’ll be riots on the streets up here’. From an east-end market: ‘Maggie would have sorted it out’. Well, she certainly knew how to sort out riots north of Watford. Double their pay and send in the Met.
“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...