THERESA May has got me thinking that there just might be a God after all, as she has bestowed such blessings on us that it’s difficult to know where to start.
Any semi-competent politician with half a brain cell should have been able to shepherd Brexit to a successful conclusion after the referendum result and the vote to implement Article 50 passed with a majority of 384. Enter The Blessed Theresa and the journey to the enlightenment.
Next door’s cat could have marshalled an adequate consensus for a rational divorce from the EU with little difficulty. Instead, May’s premiership has stripped away any lingering delusions about the Westminster system, the two-party system, first-past-the-post, and the democratic credentials and competence of the British political class.
Westminster is now laid bare before us and all the arguments of the No voters in 2014 and the Leavers in 2016 are exposed as the lies and deceit that the people of Scotland have always known them to be; the king has indeed no clothes thanks to what will become the legendary premiership of the Blessed Theresa, who is destined to finish what Guy Fawkes started.
Even the pretence, the appearance, of honesty and integrity has disappeared in Westminster and, with one or two exceptions, our representatives have simply abandoned a claim to possess these qualities.
There is no longer a single rational defence of either the two-party system or first-past-the-post given that they have brought the British Westminster system to its knees and to worldwide ridicule and contempt. To call the British political class incompetent is a compliment as they are not as good as that.
There are no longer any rational or sensible arguments for either staying in the United Kingdom or leaving the EU.
May has delivered us irrefutable evidence that what drives the so-called United Kingdom is a particularly toxic brand of English nationalism, rooted in the class system and nurtured on the playing fields of Eton.
If you had the ability to combine the intellects of the entire British Conservative party you would struggle to produce a halfwit.
She has also inadvertently exposed the quasi-fascist tendencies within the Tory party and the raw racism that permeates the entire Brexit narrative. The lies and deceptions of the Brexit campaign and the Scottish referendum have been exposed and laid at the feet of those who deceived us and poisoned our lives and futures.
In response to their disgust for, and loss of patience with, Westminster, the EU has made it abundantly clear that not only would an independent Scotland be welcomed into its community of nations, but that entry would be both smooth and unhindered, again exposing the lies and deceptions of the Unionists.
Another of Theresa’s gifts has been to show us the true character of the Labour Party and its appalling leader.
The Labour party are completely useless and invisible as an opposition, indeed their contribution to the Brexit debate has been persistently negative, and it is questionable who is the worst, Corbyn or May?
History will marvel that any political system could have managed to produce two complete morons at the head of the two major historical parties in Britain at the same time. It will be the subject of academic research.
Thus I salute the Blessed Theresa, you have indeed been a godsend. Your greatest contribution to British politics must surely be the delivery of Scottish independence as a member of the EU, and the best part is that you intended the very opposite.
Peter Kerr
Kilmarnock
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