Make mine a large VAT, Dave!
Call Me Dave is still struggling to come to terms with how and why he lost the referendum.
‘Nearly every voice that should have mattered backed our case. The voice of our main industries: cars, aircraft, trains, food, pharmaceuticals, farming, fashion, film.
‘The voice of business: the CBI. The voice of many workers: the TUC. Our allies around the world: america, India, Japan, australia, Canada.
‘The multilateral bodies of the world: the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organisation, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
‘Thirteen Nobel Prize winners. The head of the NHS. The former heads of MI5 and MI6. The head of the Church of England. Nine out of ten economists . . . ’
No prizes for guessing the missing voice he failed to take into account: the British people themselves.
So perhaps it’s not surprising that three-and-a-half years later, we’re still waiting for the political class to honour Cameron’s promise to respect the result of the referendum and implement our decision.
In his memoirs, Dave reveals that his wife Sam needed a stiff slug of gin at 8am to cope with Brexit.
Don’t we all, dear!
LABOUR’S Stop Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer has convinced himself that he’s the obvious choice to become Prime Minister in a Government of National Unity. So we vote Leave and get a proRemain Max Headroom lookalike in No 10, dedicated to overturning the referendum result. Funny how this ‘defending democracy’ business is working out.