‘exit: annunziata’ (rees-mogg announces her departure)

oh dear poor nigel farage. he’s such a ghastly little oik. all he wanted was to hang out with the posh set and here they are they’ve gone and snubbed him. four of his MEPs, people he’d personally hand picked for the best sinecure he knows have chosen the final week of the campaign (if you can call it that) to bail on him and call on people to vote tory (of course they’ll probably keep the MEPeepships).

in retrospect the plot was perhaps just a tad obvious, here's the brexit party with their hard won wisdom with hindsight;

‘ we also note that one of the MEPs is the sister of a cabinet minister, another has a partner who works in the office of the same cabinet minister and yet another is a personal friend of both boris johnson and michael gove.’

well, when you put it like that...

‘in the case of john longworth, who was for years the firmest advocate of WTO withdrawl that we have ever met, he underwent a metamorphosis into being a supporter of the new EU treaty following two days of meetings in london.’ says the brexit party.

gosh. someone who understands WTO rules (what a catch). it is at this point that an unwanted spirit of rancour enters their belated and clearsighted analysis,

‘we hope mr.longworth is well rewarded for his actions.’

horsemouth hopes so too.if only in the spirit of comedy. he owes this information to the copy of the FT he found on the train (it’s just such a pleasure to read a newspaper).

of course this s not the sum total of nigel’s problems there being roasted by andrew neil while a series of racist and islamophobic quotes are read out from his candidates (well it’s too late to fire them all). one of the founders of the brexit party calls on him to give up and, yes you guessed it, calls on their supporters to vote tory.

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last night horsemouth watched bronco bullfrog. endless cups of tea in the new high rises, in the cafes, in the old terraces. the old east end. greenpoint. stratford. down in docklands (when it was docks before it was docklands). escape by the river.