Quintin Jardine's blog

I have two grandkids and it’s my earnest hope that they both see the 22nd Century. It’s also my hope that they live to see it in a sustainable planet. In that I have just as much interest as the pseudo-hippie anarchists, yummy mummies and attention seekers who are currently doing their best to screw up the traffic around Westminster.

Apart from being futile in that it alienates people like me, the majority I believe, it is also stupid because they are preaching to the reasonably converted, and because in the short, medium and long terms it will do absolutely no good at all.

Rather than chain themselves to manhole covers in London or join the hordes under the thrall of a criminal teenager, (Organising mass school truancy has to be against the law, surely) they should target the real enemy, the planet’s biggest polluters. Let them disrupt the traffic in Beijing, Washington or Delhi and see how they are treated there.

Or, if they are determined and selfish enough to persist, let them pursue a more effective tactic and contract the job out, to Edinburgh City Council, whose elected members have been fucking up the traffic in their city for decades.

Rory Stewart: Ex-Tory leadership hopeful to step down
— Read on news.sky.com/story/rory-stewart-ex-tory-leadership-hopeful-to-step-down-11826934

I believe it was Groucho Marx who said that he wouldn’t want to join a club that would have him as a member. Rory seems to be taking that a couple of stages further by resigning from a party that had already kicked him out.

Looking at our Prime Minister on telly, I don’t believe a word he says, and neither does Ms Kuenssberg.

But I don’t want Corbyn!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49890199

For the avoidance of doubt I regard Boris as a bumptious twat full of misplaced self-importance. He does strike me as the sort of bloke who might squeeze the odd thigh under the table halfway through the third bottle of Rioja, then forget all about it. I don’t have any trouble believing Charlotte Edwards’ story.

However I do have two pertinent questions. 1) Why has it taken twenty years for her indignation to surface? 2) Why did she choose to tell all to the Sunday Times precisely when she did?

I have just seen an ad on telly, telling me to be prepared for Brexit.

Won’t bother because it isn’t going to happen. The majority voted to leave but the minority won’t allow it.

If that’s how it goes, I want my Scottish passport, Now.

The Supreme Court has ruled effectively that in future, Prime Ministers must seek the approval of Gina Miller or someone like her for every major decision they make.

I didn’t vote for Ms Miller; nobody did. I didn’t vote for a single member of the Supreme Court. I didn’t vote for Boris either, but somewhere along the line I feel that I have been cheated.

Parliamentary democracy has just been shot in the head.

Is this a hidden job creation project, another attack on employers, or just shameless, irresponsible electioneering bullshit?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49798357

I am a ‘named person’. The name is Granddad.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49753980

www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/19/greta-thunberg-we-are-ignoring-natural-climate-solutions

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-david-cameron_uk_5d820dace4b0849d472103ec

I don’t like to involve myself in another country’s politics but Trump is hard to ignore. All that I will say is that he has his distractors and his supporters; in my extended family, there are both.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/15/donald-trump-nuts-impeachment-25th-amendment-2020-election

Last night, awaiting the start of Match of the Day, I was treated to trailers for a BBCiii series, Heartbreak Holiday.

It gave me a warm feeling to know that from next year my household will have to fork out a disproportionate amount of its net income to pay for utter shite like that.

David Cameron: Johnson and Gove acted ‘appallingly’ during Brexit campaign
— Read on news.sky.com/story/david-cameron-second-referendum-cant-be-ruled-out-11808745

You made the mess, then ran away leaving others with an impossible job. Chicken, chicken chicken, looking to deflect the blame on to former colleagues and friends.

Please, people, whatever you think of Boris, don’t buy Cameron’s snivelling book.

Recall Parliament? God forbid. In our household we are enjoying being able to watch telly news free of the boorish, ill-mannered shambles that our House of Commons has become. We don’t want them back.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49671566

Tom Watson has no rhyme or reason

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0fc5206a-d49f-11e9-aa6d-16cb9f989e55

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-49661855

‘Johnson is nothing like Churchill and Rees-Mogg is an absolute fraud’

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9f236bf4-d0a3-11e9-bac7-3a108794927b

Boris doesn’t want an election, but he does.

Corbyn wants an election but he doesn’t.

There are shenanigans going on here. The opposition parties could be accused of conspiring to frustrate the wishes of a majority of the electorate, or else they are just plain conspiring. Either way the Commons, on both sides, is showing contempt for the voters.

(And by the way Dominic Cummings, I have no idea who you are, so you can fuck off too.)

They say they don’t trust Boris, and neither do I. But by implication they are saying that they don’t trust me either, or trust any other voter, to come up with a ballot box verdict that suits them.

That’s an affront to democracy and the whole shoddy crew should be ashamed of themselves. It’s not on to say that an election would only produce another hung Parliament. That’s our choice, not theirs.

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I for one am mad as hell and I ain’t going to take it anymore.

I am watching Boris address a captor audience at Wakefield Police College, wondering who has briefed him. If you are going to quote the official police caution to an audience of police officers, fcs get it right.