BRUSSELS IS BORDERING ON THE RIDICULOUS

JUST SIX counties of the UK’s multi-county union of four countries united as one lie across a strip of water called the Irish Sea and have a land border with an EU member, the Republic of Ireland.We are daily told this presents insuperable problems. But why?

Switzerland is not a member but is surrounded by France, Italy, Germany and Austria which are all in the EU. Do the juggernauts roll at every border? They most certainly do. Does trade thrive? Absolutely. Norway, a non-member, has a 400-mile border with EU member Sweden. Same thing. The border is hardly there.

The problems of Northern Ireland are deliberately confected by Brussels as ongoing “punishment” of the UK for Brexit. It really is time that our patience ran out.

IT DEPENDS how late children are allowed to stay up nowadays. We are told that fresh words, once obscenities, are now to be allowed in PG rated films. They include a short word for excrement and another for copulation. But why go to the cinema? Turn on the telly to catch Live At The Apollo or Mock The Week and little diddums can hear a constant stream of profanities that not long ago would have closed down entire channels and ended careers if allowed into the home – even by accident.

And why waste time on mere vocabulary? Any small-timer dexterous on the laptop keypad – which seems to be any child out of nappies nowadays – can apparently find a hard porn channel and sit staring at the filth while mum and dad, down in the sitting room are gazing at Strictly Come Dancing. Or so I am told at the pub ‘cos I only use my iPad to solve crosswords. The rest is a bit Memory Lane!!