The buffoon and
his nemesis have both recently returned from their pilgrimages to the great man
and his team in New York, although only the nemesis actually got to talk to
him, and then only by pretending to be a reporter rather than the full-time
politician as which we pay him handsomely.
Both bring similar glad tidings from the mountain, although not only is this
particular message not written in tablets of stone, it doesn’t appear to be
actually written on anything.
Still, they’ve
heard the message and we just have to trust them to have both understood the
mind of the great man and interpreted it correctly. And we must believe that the great man has a
settled opinion, uniquely, on this one particular issue, despite having
reversed or revised his opinion on almost everything else.
He wants to do
a deal on free trade with the UK, we’re told, and he wants to do it quickly. They also want us to believe that there’s no
scintilla of inconsistency between his desire to rip up the US’s existing free
trade deals and his intention to negotiate a new one specifically with the UK. In fairness to both the buffoon and his
nemesis, I can see that that would make eminent sense to them. After all, they see no inconsistency between
ripping up the UK’s free trade deal with its 27 neighbours and starting again
with everyone else; why should the US be any different?
The detail of
the proposed new detail is conspicuous by its absence. But again, for people who can tell us little
more than that Brexit means Brexit, why would the mere absence of detail be any
sort of problem? We can trust Trump and
the US more than we can trust those pesky Europeans that we’ve been trying to
deal with for the last four decades, because the US is special (although not
quite as special as ‘us’, obviously), and according to the Prime Minister last
week they even share our values (do try and keep up – those are the uniquely
British values that she was talking about the previous week).
The future is
safe as long as we trust Boris, Gove and Trump.
No problem there, then.
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The media, including the BBC, totally ignored Trump's outrageously untrue claim in the interview that he gave to the the buffoon's nemesis, that the UK was forced to take in large numbers Syrian refugees and that this was crucial to the Brexit vote. The UK took in very few refugees and nobody forced it to do so. But in the post-trust era, nobody seems to care.
(Editor's note: This comment was submitted on a different post, but I've moved it to this one to which it seems to be more closely related.)
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