The subject of the “Dick” game in the Circle – forced to make himself unpopular and be “blocked”
Month: October 2019
Here’s a novelty
This is a video made by my University and shows some of the speech I gave when I was appointed a Professor. I am afraid in the speech there was an elaborate image of a cockroach which has 13 hearts and I suggested this was all about resilience, and added that because we do not often see one cockroach on its own, it is also an image of community and reciprocity. I think it may have lost something in the translation. Still, I rather enjoy the image….
Boris’ Gambit
Just got out of “the Circle” to find Boris in the middle of an extraordinary Saturday sitting of parliament! I worry that he has now decided to send a message to Brussels without signing it. What worries me most is that this supremely intelligent and confident man is potentially heading down the spineless path of his predecessor, Mrs May. I would urge him to avoid hiding like her behind bureaucratic nonsense and to do all he can to discourage his advisors and alies from embracing a Jesuitical approach to Brexit.
If something must be done, then it must be done clearly and not fudged. We must take proper responsibility for whatever we do. My own wish, of course, is that the Brexit referendum should never have happened at all and that, had it done so, the Remain team should have presented a better case and a more united front.
But having had the Referendum, and having seen the lacklustre efforts of Cameron and Corbyn to rally support for the status quo, I feel we should still have made more of an effort to press ahead against the Brussels’ bullies and show, firstly, that what was done to Greece by the Bureaucrats will not be done to Britain and secondly, that life beyond the EU was viable. Sadly, no one could have forseen the May premiership- all evasion and weeping, a sorry state and Boris must pick up the pieces.
The latest defeat is a noble first stab towards doing something.
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