Jove hurts
EU President Ursula von der Leyen has finally admitted that European leaders “made a mistake” when they pushed Britain to leave.
Germany’s failed defense minister turned Commission president says it must fall to the next generation to “fix it” and get us to rejoin. Why? Fix what?
The European Union is collapsing, and even its mythical open borders are closing.
Its economy is in critical condition, and Germany, once its powerhouse, is fast becoming a highly polluted basket case. Across the continent, voters are moving towards the right, even the extreme right.
While the Greeks complain about marbles, Spain attacks Gibraltar again.
At the same time those plans for the European Union armywhich Remainers told us was a myth, is accelerating.
Is this what anti-Brexit fanatics still want to join?
Every day that passes it becomes clearer that we are out at the right time.
Rishi says Brexit is not in danger.
However – with a ‘stronger’ David Cameron back at the Foreign Office – the EU is suddenly making overtures on a return.
Just wait until Nigel Farage hears about this when he comes out of the woods…
Non-civil service
Is it any wonder that the Home Office is a circus, when you can see the clowns running the show?
Two senior ministry officials admitted to MPs yesterday that they had no idea why 17,000 small boat passers-by had disappeared from the system.
They also did not know how many immigrants were being repatriated. In Rwanda, things were no better.
Even Labour’s left-wing chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Dame Diana Johnson, asked: “Do we have any figures on anything?”
Successive Tory Home Secretaries have faced this useless ‘border point’, only to be accused of it bullying When they complain.
If senior staff are this awful at a public hearing, can you imagine what they are like behind closed doors?
The plane is stupid
We usually don’t mind ministers using planes to get around, but do they really need three planes to lecture us at the climate change summit?
The King, Rishi and Lord Cameron will all go to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), but each will be on their own plane.
With the annual gathering of complaining hypocrites heading to Dubai this weekend, surely the queue on the runway was long enough already?
Just energy Minister Claire Coutinho was wise enough to book herself on a commercial flight.
Could it be that Dev and Rishi don’t share a cabin?