No Deal
Where does the buck stop when a backstop blocks the options in a break-up?
Haystack Haircut got the top slot,
guns the juggernaut
plum at the cliff-top.
Metal on metal, the brake shoes squeal.
An utter nut-job’s at the wheel,
no air-bag and no seat belts.
It’s
No Deal.
The new Prime Minister Boris Johnson
says the EU’s spouting nonsense,
digging in their foreign heels,
sticking to their cherished backstop.
His bet is that they’re gonna back off.
Don’t imbibe his specious spiel,
the country’s ****ed:
expect No Deal
Forty years of peace in Europe.
Bliss for which our forebears fought:
falling prices in the shops;
no border hassles for the tourists;
no trucks in log-jams at the ports.
On Halloween it all goes pop!
No food, no fuel, no drugs, no steel,
no wine, no cheese, no Peace.
No Deal.
Boris badgers on regardless
blusters for his blasted Brexit
blithe to Britain’s grind and hardship
when the Irish backstop stops it.
The hope is vain, the pain is real.
No give, no take.
Oh no!
No brakes.
No Deal.
M.C. Newberry
Wed 7th Aug 2019 16:27
I enjoyed the general "dig" at the current PM for his perceived
poncing about with politics. But not sure about the EU being part
of "peace in Europe" - recalling the dreadful goings-on with that
ancient animosity playing out in the eastern part of the continent
in the not-too-distant past. NATO has always been the bulwark of
peace-keeping and remains so, even now when the EU fulfils the
warning of years ago from Sir James Goldsmith about it seeking
its own army. How they mocked the "scare-mongering"
from that source and his Referendum Party. No thought about
how Russia and its allies (always a bit paranoid because of its
huge sacrifices in European wars) might view this eventuality as a
threat to its interests and react accordingly. Trading "trade" for
the political ambitions of assorted ill-matched "member states"
led by our erstwhile enslavers using the Clausewitz doctrine is hardly a good long-term swap. This outcome was essentially a
matter of time and changing circumstances.