Brexit was always a case of smoke and mirrors. Our national, and supposedly impartial, broadcaster, the BBC, has a duty to investigate this and report the truth.
It is, of course, entirely coincidental that the government would like the state-funded broadcaster to look the other way when it suits them.
There are serious issues at stake here. If Brexit is to succeed, then trade deals, border controls and immigration worries must be resolved. These require delicate and detailed negotiations, not sleight-of-hand. Our government is neither delicate nor detailed. Its Empire-sized ego has made promises it cannot possibly deliver upon. Nothing concrete, just tooth-rotting quantities of fudge.
Ironically, it is the attention to detail and practicalities that the EU has shown which are doing the most damage to the UK’s cause. Our desire to escape EU bureaucracy is foundering upon EU bureaucracy.
Anti-Brexit marches have taken place. You wouldn’t know this from the BBC. The People are speaking, but the BBC is not listening.
Instead, the BBC is gratefully obsessing about Russians, gleefully distracting attention from matters closer to home. A cynic may well wonder if the Skripal poisonings were ordered by High Command for this very reason.
This is distraction theory. It allows the BBC to focus on the mouse in the room at the expense of the elephant.
Meanwhile, Jacob Rees-Mogg loftily informs the cave-dwellers that there is no such thing as mammoths, before setting off on a mission to hunt for ivory.
“I’m getting bored of being ignored,” said the elephant, coincidentally named Donald Tusk. “I’m going to deposit another massive load of poo in the House of Commons. Then I’m packing my trunk and saying goodbye to the circus. I’m going to bugger off and take up residence in the BBC newsroom for a bit. Someone might notice me then!”
It is a third coincidence that elephants are scared of mice. Which, presumably, is another reason why the mouse was released into the room in the first place.