The Diary of Boris Wimp

Boris Johnson, Lord of House Starkers, continues his now back-bench revolt.
Undermining the cowardly, craven, psychologically Stockholm Syndromed and thoroughly emasculated Theonsa GreyJoyless while pretending he is supporting her.

 Meanwhile  'Govey' LittleFinger continues his similar, incessant, granting and withdrawing of support to all sides, in his attempts to seize the Iron Throne for himself.

The Tory 'Red Wedding Conference' is just weeks away and..

What? C@W readers have no idea who or what is Game Of Thrones. Most popular television series in the world? Multi  million selling 10 novel series ?


Please yourselves
Here's some early 80's ELO encouraging Boris to get on with it!

Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un populiste pour encourager les autres

I liked ND's humorous post of Saturday, so it got me thinking, what was discussed, what happened?


And here it is interesting a swift search reveals hundreds of articles about the meeting happening. Plenty speculating what will happen, how nice the French President's place is in the South of France and all sorts of other 5p per word guff.


But nothing, nothing on what actually transpired at all, post the event.


So why is this? Most obviously it is because neither Macron or May have issued any kind of statement or press release.


But why have the media not insisted on one? Perhaps they have, only ineffectively.


I can see that the chances of progress were near zero. Macron has an easy view of Brexit, stay in the single market and betray the populists. Or a Hard Brexit to teach the populists across Europe a lesson...perhaps there is a modern re-working of an old quote that may sum this up.


So May's recent position of a kind of half-in half-out model will be lost on Macron who if anything thinks the Michel Barnier is a bit wimpy in the negotiations.


With a lack of meeting of minds, maybe it should not surprise us that the meeting has quietly been forgotten already.

Italy continues Populist trend

Whatever you think, Bepe Grillo and his Cinque Stella movement are utterly nuts.


They are in origination closer to the Monster Raving Loony Party than UKIP.


With success, they have moved to have some actual policies which are suitably anti-elitist. Leave the Euro etc. All in good order really. Even better, the EU approach of appointing PM's from Berlin and Brussels has been proven a failure, hopefully this pathetic experiment will not be re-tried for the sake of the poor countries subjected to it.


Italy itself remains ungovernable, split into regions and hampered by the populace happily ignoring nasty things likes rules, regulations and taxes (makes it a great Country, I love visiting!).


For the UK, the May Brexit plan is perhaps working out. Fillon or Le Pen, Grillo or Berlusconi, the people in charge of the EU will be markedly more friendly to the UK next year. Merkel will be more isolated - though looking at her history this won't bother her much.


Meanwhile, still trying to find the most leveraged way to short these Italian banks....