It's time to talk about the miscreants, mountebanks and maniacs. The irrepressible and the irredeemable. It's not totally serious, it's not totally silly, but it is my nominations for the Worst Person Of The Day.
The bronze medal goes to DUP MP for South Antrim, Paul Girvan, who made a bit of slip up in a debate today, by claiming that housewives did all the shopping.
He said the UK should aim to bring other countries up to its standard before telling the Commons: “We’ve set the bar fairly high. But by setting the bar so high we have additional costs and it makes it more difficult for us to compete on a world stage and that is vitally important that we do address that, and we get that put in place with whatever measures we have to put in place and subsidy for our farming, and to ensure that we have a product which is still viable and still economically possible for the housewife to buy."
Now to his credit, he did apologise quickly, saying, “I’ve used the wrong term, I apologise, but those that are buying in their basket, their basket of food in the supermarket, they will definitely be able to get the best value for it.” But, now we know who holds the purse strings in his household...
The silver medal goes to Israeli model Bar Refaeli, who has recieved a large fine of 2.5 million shekels, that's around about £577,000, for tax evasion. She'll also have to spend 9 months doing community service. No doubt she'll turn that into positive PR on her Instagram posts. Now, whilst I am all in support of taking down tax evaders, it's all too easy to go after people like models, actors and entertainers, because they tend to be either self-employed, or have small companies around them. We should never forget that some of the biggest tax evaders right now are large corporations, who are deliberately moving money to tax havens to avoid paying tax. The countries of the world, should be working together, to make these large multinational corporations pay their fair share of tax. I only hope that she has found this whole situation more taxing than actually paying her taxes...
But our winner today is Conservative Brexiteer MP, Andrew Bridgen, who showed just how little he understands the Brexit situation, and the Russia report that's due to be published on Wednesday, by claiming that the release of the report was designed to sabotage Brexit and discredit the result of the referendum.
He told the Express: “I hope that the ISC report will not be used as yet another attempt to try to discredit the referendum vote for Brexit or to smear Arron Banks again. Too often we have seen that Remainers cannot accept defeat and have repeatedly used any means possible to attempt to undermine and discredit the result. Yet whenever the British people have been asked to vote in a referendum or election in the last four years they have consistently and increasingly overwhelmingly backed the Leave side.”
Okay, so from the last point, no, they haven't backed Leave, they backed the Tories, unless you're suggesting that they're one and the same??? Second, it's not that Remain didn't accept the result, everybody accepted the result of the referendum, which was always only meant to be advisory, but was taken as gospel by those who won, it's more that as the evidence has mounted up to show that the result was tainted by external interference, Leave has refused to accept that, claiming some kind of conspiracy against them. Third, Arron Banks hasn't been smeared, there were allegations made, and so far, there hasn't been enough evidence to bring him before court.
But the more important point is this. The referendum result has already been discredited, even if Russian money wasn't involved, and it's not been disredited by Remainers. It's been discredited by your own party, Andrew, becasue they have consistently failed to deliver what they promised in the referendum campaign. They said that Brexit would be easy, that we were holding all the cards, that getting trade deals would be no problem. None of those have turned out to be the case, and it's been the actions of Brexiteers like yourself that have caused all this. Just accept that you won, and now you're having to live with the consequences of it.
And you know what the weird thing is about all this? Once Brexit is finally done, Andrew will just go back to being just another irrelevant backbench MP, much as he was after he won his North West Leciestershire seat back in 2010, and he struggled to find releavance for a while, being critical of both David Cameron and later, Theresa May as Prime Minister. Just you wait, Boris, he'll turn on you too!
Andrew "critical of Prime Ministers" Bridgen, the Worst Person of the Day!
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