Peter Rhodes on paying tribute at the wrong place, football's grim dirge and why a soft Brexit is like 100 dead rabbits
You can't polish a dirge.
AFTER her Cabinet triumph, Theresa May will be spending more time with EU negotiator Michel Barnier. Good luck with that (Spell-check for "Barnier" suggests "barmier").
IN the meantime, the bean-counters and policy-wonks are arguing whether the Cabinet's "soft" Brexit option, dismissed by Boris Johnson as a t**d that cannot be polished, is worth having. As I suggested a few weeks ago, our lords and masters focus too much on the economics. For most Leave voters, this was always a political issue. What matters is that we will no longer be part of the EU, that we can stop dignifying its preposterous parliament by electing make-believe MEPs, that we are not ordered around by unelected officials and that our local councils no longer have to fly the EU's silly flag or erect "built with EU funding" signs when, in order to get £1 out of Brussels we have to pay £2 in. The message we sent to the Government in the 2016 Referendum was simple: "Get us out. Get the best deal you can, but get us out." We seem to be on track. More polish, please.
