Perhaps we’ve all
misjudged the Prime Minister, the Government and the Brexiteers over the past
two years by assuming that there was ever a serious objective of negotiating a
Brexit agreement. I’m wondering if the
real objective all along has been to try and parody as many as possible of the
most well-known comedy shows of the past 50 years. Some sort of dare, maybe – after all, at
least one minister has form
on that score.
We’ve had more
cunning plans than Baldrick, and Basil Fawlty’s ‘not mentioning the war’ has
been taken to new heights by bringing the subject up at every possible
opportunity. Earlier this week we had
the PM’s very best impression of Corporal Jones with her call for us all not
to panic. Yesterday, we moved on to
Monty Python, with her insistence
that her plan is not dead at all, although she didn’t go as far as to tell us
whether it was stunned, asleep, or just resting. Definitely not nailed to the perch though. Meanwhile, the negotations have displayed the bargaining skills of Del Trotter.
Perhaps we were never
meant to take any of it seriously, just do our best to enjoy the poorly-written
attempts to remind us all of the comedy greats of the past. I have a horrible feeling, though, that it
will all end with some sort of parallel to the final episode of Blackadder – and that was not at all
funny.
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