Like much of the country, I've been watching the recent Brexit coverage like misery porn, unable to look away as much as I do my best to avoid it.
It's like one big dose of anxiety you just can't shift. It keeps grinding away at my subconscious, leaving me a wreck. I'm tired of the chaos that never ends. Like many people, I turn to Twitter as a place to vent my frustration, which is, in and of itself, a blessing and a curse. Today, in lieu of a blog, I thought I'd share some of these ramblings in no particular order; if you can pick up on my political leanings you win a prize.
13.03.19: For politicians to keep stating "What the public wants" while not asking is a contradiction in terms.
10.03.19: My favourite moment on this morning's BBC Breakfast: "So, you would have voted to leave and yet you moved to France. What's that all about?"
05.03.19: IAIN DUNCAN SMITH IS FULL OF SHIT.
12.03.19: It says a lot about our recent political chaos that I didn't even recognise the name or face of the current Brexit Secretary.
10.03.19: Jeremy Hunt always looks like the speed's just kicked in.
10.03.19: Boris Johnson needs to know a new haircut does not a PM make.
14.03.19: The case for Brexit was built on lies from the gutter press and the likes of Gove, Farage and Johnson, who had their own agenda and personal interests at heart, and it sickens me that at this stage - with the clock running down - they're still doing it.
To stoke up ignorance and hatred purposely is deeply irresponsible and yet politicians keep doing it for the simple reason that it's the quickest, easiest way to get what they want. Please: STOP.
I don't want to leave the EU, yet I understand that - whatever happens - it makes sense to take the time to get something this momentous (that affects so many people) right. Crashing out of the EU without a deal makes zero sense; how do you negotiate a position from the outside?
It's like not being offered a job but still trying to negotiate your money for it.
Brexiteers even speak in Daily Mail font.
04.02.19: Is it possible to hibernate through Brexit?
And the result of it?
15.11.18: God, we look like a bunch of fucking idiots. #RaabResigns #Brexit
01.06.17: If I neglect to add Brexit to spell-check, there's still hope.
17.01.17: *setting a timer for how long between Iain Duncan Smith appearing on BBC Breakfast to discuss Brexit and him saying "Take back control"*
29.03.17: Here's hoping she triggered Article 49 to play for time.
15.11.18: ...all those resigning Tory [EXPLETIVES] not thinking about our country, but about their own career ambitions.
16.11.18: In the interests of self-preservation, I mentally substitute the word "Brexit" with "breakfast" in any article, conversation or tweet.
16.01.19: Why does Bercow always sound like he's being penetrated by a bollard at force?
23.07.18: When Paxman can't even sum up the energy to acknowledge an incorrect answer: that's how the rest of the EU will treat us after Brexit. #UniversityChallenge
15.11.18: Thank God for the likes of @DominicRaab, @DavidDavisMP, @BorisJohnson and @JoJohnsonUK who resign to put the country's interests over their own nasty, calculated, duplicitous, selfish, hubristic career ambitions.
Let's add @EstherMcVey1 to the "not at all thinking about themself" list.
14.01.19: The BBC's Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith's Theresa May Brexit deal analogy of a crashing plane trying to execute a safe landing has a Farage-like aftertaste.
20.11.18:
I don't think you truly believe that, @Jacob_Rees_Mogg; not for a second. You know the truth, yet you scaremonger at a crucial time to suit your own ends at the expense of our future.
If you, Gove & Johnson didn't lie habitually, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
09.07.18: We know why you've quit, @BorisJohnson; because you're a self-interested, calculating turd, happy to hoodwink the public into thinking Brexit was good idea by falsifying figures, solely because it suited your career ambitions. But we don't want a Machiavellian con-artist as PM.
18.01.19: It's appropriate that @BorisJohnson is currently discussing Brexit in front of a JCB in Rocester, what with him having run a bulldozer through UK politics.
15.01.19: ...because the point is, Brexit is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible idea.
It's like one big dose of anxiety you just can't shift. It keeps grinding away at my subconscious, leaving me a wreck. I'm tired of the chaos that never ends. Like many people, I turn to Twitter as a place to vent my frustration, which is, in and of itself, a blessing and a curse. Today, in lieu of a blog, I thought I'd share some of these ramblings in no particular order; if you can pick up on my political leanings you win a prize.
13.03.19: For politicians to keep stating "What the public wants" while not asking is a contradiction in terms.
10.03.19: My favourite moment on this morning's BBC Breakfast: "So, you would have voted to leave and yet you moved to France. What's that all about?"
05.03.19: IAIN DUNCAN SMITH IS FULL OF SHIT.
12.03.19: It says a lot about our recent political chaos that I didn't even recognise the name or face of the current Brexit Secretary.
10.03.19: Jeremy Hunt always looks like the speed's just kicked in.
10.03.19: Boris Johnson needs to know a new haircut does not a PM make.
14.03.19: The case for Brexit was built on lies from the gutter press and the likes of Gove, Farage and Johnson, who had their own agenda and personal interests at heart, and it sickens me that at this stage - with the clock running down - they're still doing it.
To stoke up ignorance and hatred purposely is deeply irresponsible and yet politicians keep doing it for the simple reason that it's the quickest, easiest way to get what they want. Please: STOP.
I don't want to leave the EU, yet I understand that - whatever happens - it makes sense to take the time to get something this momentous (that affects so many people) right. Crashing out of the EU without a deal makes zero sense; how do you negotiate a position from the outside?
It's like not being offered a job but still trying to negotiate your money for it.
Brexiteers even speak in Daily Mail font.
04.02.19: Is it possible to hibernate through Brexit?
And the result of it?
15.11.18: God, we look like a bunch of fucking idiots. #RaabResigns #Brexit
01.06.17: If I neglect to add Brexit to spell-check, there's still hope.
17.01.17: *setting a timer for how long between Iain Duncan Smith appearing on BBC Breakfast to discuss Brexit and him saying "Take back control"*
29.03.17: Here's hoping she triggered Article 49 to play for time.
15.11.18: ...all those resigning Tory [EXPLETIVES] not thinking about our country, but about their own career ambitions.
16.11.18: In the interests of self-preservation, I mentally substitute the word "Brexit" with "breakfast" in any article, conversation or tweet.
16.01.19: Why does Bercow always sound like he's being penetrated by a bollard at force?
23.07.18: When Paxman can't even sum up the energy to acknowledge an incorrect answer: that's how the rest of the EU will treat us after Brexit. #UniversityChallenge
15.11.18: Thank God for the likes of @DominicRaab, @DavidDavisMP, @BorisJohnson and @JoJohnsonUK who resign to put the country's interests over their own nasty, calculated, duplicitous, selfish, hubristic career ambitions.
Let's add @EstherMcVey1 to the "not at all thinking about themself" list.
14.01.19: The BBC's Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith's Theresa May Brexit deal analogy of a crashing plane trying to execute a safe landing has a Farage-like aftertaste.
20.11.18:
If you, Gove & Johnson didn't lie habitually, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
09.07.18: We know why you've quit, @BorisJohnson; because you're a self-interested, calculating turd, happy to hoodwink the public into thinking Brexit was good idea by falsifying figures, solely because it suited your career ambitions. But we don't want a Machiavellian con-artist as PM.
18.01.19: It's appropriate that @BorisJohnson is currently discussing Brexit in front of a JCB in Rocester, what with him having run a bulldozer through UK politics.
15.01.19: ...because the point is, Brexit is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible idea.