Day 73. See you at the barricades babe. (14/3/19)

Three hundred and thirty-four to eighty-five.

That's your count. That's the count that tells us our Parliament doesn't think we're worth having a say in the destruction of this pitiful little country. Abstentions all over the place. Labour abstaining. Labour apparently instructed to abstain. Whipped to abstain. So J tells me. I wasn't watching. I was in here, writing. Labour staying in the house rather than heading to the division lobbies?

I'm disgusted.

And it doesn't even matter.

Because, even if Labour had all rocked out to the sound of the division bell and voted to allow the people of the country, who were lied to by bigots, racists and chaos capitalists, they still wouldn't have gained enough votes in favour of a second referendum to overturn the Tories whipped by their side into voting against it.

You expect Tories to take away choice. They claim they're for choice and freedom of the individual, against the idea of 'the nanny state' but they're a group who were largely, literally, raised by nannies. A group of upper class scum whose parents loved them so little that they paid others to raise them. It's no bloody wonder they hate humanity so much.

Everybody knows we were lied to. Everybody knows that the words on the sides of the buses were bullshit. Everybody knows that Boris Johnson, the emblem of everything that's wrong with allowing the children of privilege to enter politics despite lacking any sign of ability or intellect, had two opinions on the day of the referendum, had written two columns, one recommending out, one maintaining in and went with the one that would give him the greatest chance of leading the Tory party.

These people. These vermin. They're not interested in the fate of the country. They're motivated by nothing more than the profit they can make from uncertainty.

The Tory party inflicts a decade of politically motivated austerity that breaks the working class and then, once they've broken a class to the point that it can take no more of the status quo, gives them a choice in a referendum that hints that the status quo they're now disenchanted with is that big one over there full of all those bloody foreigners who want to come over here and take your jobs while somehow simultaneously claiming your benefits. They tell the country that they're being invaded by Bulgarians. One lands. One. A single individual wondering why the media are waiting for him.

Ah, yes, the media. The news. The national news. Gobshites, pretty much to a man. A media that allowed Nigel Farage access to a  public soapbox that he had done nothing to deserve. A media that indulged the myth that this privately educated merchant banker was a man of the people just speaking up for the little man. While hanging around with that offensive orange buffoon currently running America into a cesspit of hate.

They allowed this man WITH NO MPs WHATSOEVER to put his point across.

And people voted for the cause he espoused.

And those people weren't all racists. But the people who led the charge are.

Not everybody who voted 'out' is a racist or a bigot.

BUT ALL RACISTS AND BIGOTS VOTED OUT.

Find me a racist who voted to remain. Go on, I dare you. It won't happen.

And if you vote on the side of the racists then you've just put yourself on the wrong side. It doesn't matter what your intentions are, you've just found yourself on the wrong side of history. Because the Nazis are always on the wrong side of history. And those lads with the yellow vests threatening everybody who disagrees with them, those lads chanting for 'Tommy' every time that Yaxley-Lennon gobshite shows his face? Ever notice how many of those have swastika tattoos?

And, trust me, they're not making the argument that it's an ancient Hindu symbol that was corrupted by Hitler and his mates. They know what it is.

Those that voted out with the best intentions? Those that believed that the NHS would benefit, that believed that it would mean that we were 'in control of our own laws' (hint on this one, we always bloody were)? Those that thought it would be good for business but have now seen how many companies are already deserting the country?

There's so many of those that realise they were conned, lied to, mislead. There are so many that would welcome the chance to vote again. So many who would welcome the chance to put right their protest vote.

Because, now, they have an idea of how bad this is all going to be.

They know that, in two weeks time, there's every chance we're looking at food shortages, medicine shortages. Stockpiling, hoarding. We're possibly looking at civil unrest on an unheard of scale as people try to simply survive.

Call that project fear if you wish. Everything else that those of us who were warning about this stuff up front said has proved accurate.

The economy is falling apart. It's going to fall further.

The Americans will trade with us. And they'll allow us to trade on their terms. While the market on our doorstep is ignoring us because we're idiots.

Never mind, though. I'm sure chicken tastes far better after it's been liberally doused with chlorine.

We're denied a second vote.

MPs voted three times on the same bloody thing last night. Theresa May returns to Parliament for meaningless 'Meaningful votes' every time she thinks they may have changed their minds on a document that she's changed nothing on but the typeface. But we can't have a second vote because that would be against democracy.

Let's ignore the fact that of that original vote, many of the section that voted out have, statistically, passed away, while the 16 year olds who weren't trusted to make a decision about their future are now 18 and have no say in how appalling the rest of their lives may be.

Because we have to respect the will of the people.

UK population 66 million.

Voted out 17 million.

Will of the people. Jesus Christ.

In an advisory referendum.

A referendum that was, in no way at all, legally binding.

Okay, Labour would have lost. That doesn't matter. Losing doesn't matter on this. Well, it does, obviously but...

Vote for a second referendum. Do the right bloody thing. Because none of those bastards over on that side of the house are. At least make your voices heard.

Because nobody is allowing us to make ours heard. My party has let me down on this. They've betrayed me with silence. I didn't ask my party for silence. I asked that they made my voice heard.

Prediction. Have a second referendum tomorrow and we remain. And we don't remain by 52% to 48%. It goes 60/40 at least.

Because everybody's seen what's happening.

And they talk about the possible unrest caused by the first decision being overturned.

Nonsense.

A second referendum, or the most sensible option on Earth, REVOKING ARTICLE 50 LIKE ANY SANE PERSON WOULD DO would give the following result:

50 bigots in yellow vests shouting at people in Trafalgar Square. A couple of million racists complaining on twitter. And the largest sigh of relief you've ever heard from the rest of the country.

"But what if you had a second referendum and it was still an 'out' result?"

Then you accept it because at least this time it's been carried out with some idea of what it actually means.

But it wouldn't.

And the thing is, those of us that voted remain are prepared to take the chance with a second referendum. Those that voted out don't appear quite so confident.

Wonder why that might be.

Leaving the EU is a bad idea. Leaving the EU without any kind of deal is suicide. Attempting to present an alternative, as Labour seem to be most desirous of doing, is folly. The EU have been very open about the fact there is no other deal to be discussed.

And there is no time to discuss it in.

The only option that makes any sense is suspending, or revoking, Article 50. Going back to the country.

The country wanted to take back control, as the facetious, shallow, campaigning terminology had it. All it's done is hand the control to 385 self interested MPs.

Not allowing us the chance to put right what was put wrong with lies, criminal overspending on electioneering and misinformation spread by minor political figures with major ambitions for themselves (Gove, Johnson, Farage) is an insult to our intelligence and our parliament's belief in our ability to understand the true nature of the crisis that we are now mired in.

So they're insulting us.

Bastards.