…THOUGH COWARDS FLINCH AND TRAITORS SNEER, WE’LL KEEP THE RED FLAG FLYING HERE.

Immediately after the Supreme Court ruling which decided that the government’s attempt to prorogue parliament was unlawful, we saw dozens of MPs and others whose interests depend on remaining in the socialist controlled EU, saying how ‘they were delighted’ and announced that they were now scurrying back to Westminster to urgently debate the way forward regarding Brexit.


Then as the Labour conference finishing early on Tuesday following the court ruling, those people who later would be accusing Boris Johnson of being a ‘traitor’ finished their conference by enthusiastically singing the communist and now the Labour Party anthem of The Red Flag’ whose lyrics are as follows: Raise the scarlet standard high. Beneath its folds we'll live and die. Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flying here!


The song is about armed proletarian youth revolution, with the song symbolising how the youth must bring about a new age and wash away that of the old capitalist regimes of the modern world. Red Flag in the title itself has its roots firm entrenched in a communist/socialist revolution.


However, the line ‘cowards flinch’ sounds like a perfect description of the election-dodging Corbyn.


Then, as the camera’s rolled, the SNP, Liberals, the Greens and those that had recently broken away from their socialist comrades and joined other groups, along with the Labour MPs together with many vocal members of the Trade Unions, collectively delivered their epistle to the masses and returned to Westminster ready for Parliament to reconvene on Wednesday. I believe our own MP Jonathan Reynolds was photographed and was published on ‘social media’ looking like the cat who’d finished off the cream, sitting smugly in an empty commons chamber.


So, the much-vaulted Brexit crisis; the very subject of the UK leaving the EEC was not to be! Instead, they used this ‘urgent time’ to plan further scrutiny of the government and undermine both the democratic Brexit result and rather than trying to find a solution to Brexit, spent their 'urgent time' plotting further spoiling tactics and instead engaged in a programme of mud-slinging and dragging spurious historic accusations to further undermine the Prime Minister.


Although there was not the usual Wednesday Prime Minister's Questions, the Speaker, Mr Bercow said, ‘there would be "full scope" for urgent questions, ministerial statements and applications for emergency debates’ to which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn suggested that “This unelected Prime Minister should now resign, with the SNP leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford saying, “Once it’s clear that Parliament has blocked a no-deal Brexit, the opposition parties should combine to pass a vote of no confidence. And MPs again try to seize control of the Commons timetable from the Government.


With the Prime Minister speaking to the UN, he too was forced to curtail his intended international meeting schedule and returned from New York to address parliament.


Watching the proceedings I soon realised the atmosphere was turning positively toxic with remainers from all the opposition party’s shouting throughout his delivery from the despatch box where the PM was attempting to speak about the Benn Act, calling it the ‘Surrender Act’ and saying the word ‘betrayal, as in “We will not betray the people who sent us here; we will not." His speech was met by opposition members shouting out, that the PM was acting like a ‘tinpot’ dictator, and of being a liar; - words that are usually pounced on by the Mr Speaker as being ‘unacceptable parliamentary language’.


As the slanging match continued with screeching accusations being slung back and forth, each side were increasingly escalating the stretching of the English language to denigrate their opponents.


To me, the whole sorry affair smacked of screeching hypocrisy.


CURMUDGEON