It’s so good to see politicians like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump sticking two fingers up at the establishment
For the first time the EU understands we no longer give a stuff about the old order
I DON’T think I’ve had so much fun in years.
Just love watching the EU establishment becoming redder and redder in the face as our leading politicians very gently give them the V-sign.
It makes my Leave vote so worthwhile.
Apparently Boris’s jokes don’t go down well in European capitals. Excellent.
One of the German sour Krauts, a chap called Manfred Weber, is beside himself, accusing Brexiteers Boris Johnson and David Davis of provocation, arrogance and the like.
Good. For the first time the EU understands we no longer give a stuff about the old order with Merkel and Co running the show.
The Germans love Europe as, thanks to skint EU countries, the euro is permanently depressed, making it cheaper to flog their Mercs knowing if they went back to the Mark it would be twice the price.
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The fun is not only taunting the Germans but also watching from 3,000 miles away Donald Trump giving just the one finger to our man in Washington.
That man, Sir Kim Darroch, has been kissing every backside in Brussels for most of his career (look it up on Wikipedia) and when he got to the US did the same to the Clinton camp.
So no wonder Trump would like Nigel Farage as our Ambassador.
After all, he stood by him when nobody else would.
You don’t forget that kind of loyalty.
Right now we have a time-serving dud who backed the wrong horse.
Mrs May should swallow her pride and bring the guy home.
It’s the new order.
The establishment everywhere is on the run.
You are the masters now.
Don's got 'em over a barrel
LUCK favours the brave. The US Geological Survey has announced a shale find 500 miles west of Houston, Texas, which contains 20billion barrels of oil.
To give you some idea of its size, in almost 50 years the North Sea only produced 40billion barrels.
Donald Trump is a fracking enthusiast so now the US will not have to bow the knee to the medieval religious nutcases who run the Middle East. Nor should we.
The faster we become self-sufficient through fracking by literally bribing local residents through a percentage of the revenues (money talks, bulls**t walks) the better. The smashing of the oil cartels should be our nation’s No1 priority.
Learn from The Donald.
BUENOS Aires is not going to allow cryogenically freezing of bodies. The government has decreed: Don’t Cryo for me Argentina. Thank you.
Help divorced dads see their kids
I HAD no idea about the scale of the issue until I studied my record postbag on how a divorced parent deliberately alienates the child from the partner.
Many of the tales were heartbreaking.
Clearly there would be two sides to every story but what is evident is that dads appear to be suffering a lot more than mums.
A doctor in Somerset tells me he hasn’t see his daughter in two years following divorce.
The daughter even moved schools without him knowing and broke bones in two separate accidents without him being informed.
He, and other column readers, reserve much of their criticism for Cafcass, the court social workers who are trained to record the “wishes and feelings” of a child.
Despite having no expertise in alienation – the deliberate brainwashing of children – they decide how much time they can spend with each parent.
False accusations of abuse are often made and, by the time the parent is cleared, the alienator has had plenty more time to poison the child’s mind.
Perhaps somebody (a lawyer or a judge would be helpful) could explain to me why we can’t introduce a law to protect innocent children from parental alienation, as they have in the US.
Do email [email protected].
It isn't taxing to switch
WITH Philip Hammond doubling insurance tax in a year, you must be either nuts or Philip Green if you don’t go on a price comparison site. Column reader Ken Turner is neither.
He went on my price-switching site
and saved £120 on his home insurance and £275 on his gas and electric bills.
Do send your saving stories to [email protected]o.uk.
THOUGHT this letter to The Times from Tom Howe, of Haslemere, Surrey, needed a wider airing: My father’s definition of a cad was someone who broke wind in bed and then shouted: “Burglars!”
WE have the highest use of cocaine among 15 to 34-year- olds in Europe and the highest rates of gonorrhoea across the continent.
As that makes us champions in two different specialities, do you think they are being Lottery funded?
Makes you proud to be British, doesn’t it?
Stick to sprouts, shares don't pay
WORKING on the not unreasonable assumption that we would always need to eat, I decided to have a fair sized punt on the supermarket Morrisons, buying their shares at 303p.
At first they went up, but over five years the share price looked more and more like the Daily Mirror circulation graph: Down, down and more down.
Finally I bailed out at 170p, having made a sizeable loss.
During this period I always shopped at the rather snooty Waitrose, but now I was skint I was looking round to save some money.
And where do I food shop now?
You’re right. Morrisons.
Bloody marvellous they are too.
At least 30 per cent cheaper with better fruit, veg and meat.
The only problem about pushing my cart around Morrisons is that it’s a constant reminder of my poor investment.
As of last night those shares had climbed to 218p.
I’m tempted to have another punt.
Think it wiser to stick to the safer option: Buying their sprouts instead.
At least there will be food on the table, rather than a sell note.
Rinder gets ribbed
NOT wishing to appear politically correct but I didn’t much enjoy the homophobia surrounding Judge Rinder on Strictly Come Dancing.
I particularly disliked Craig Revel Horwood’s reference to “grinder” – did he mean the gay pick-up app Grindr? – as he gave his views on Robert Rinder’s dance.
How many times do you think Mr Rinder, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, has had to listen to that “joke”, often from people who didn’t have his best interests at heart?
Being gay and being watched by ten million people meant he had to bite the bullet. I doubt that’s how he really felt.
Throw in Peter Kay, pretending to be goosed by Mr Rinder (very 1980s), and you could understand he thought he was there to dance, not to be taunted for his sexuality.
A private apology from the producers may be in order.
Fears for Timothy Spall
A COUPLE of months back I saw a worrying photo of Harry Potter actor Timothy Spall.
The portly look had vanished and instead he looked drawn and haggard having lost at least 40lb, left, which he credited to a new diet.
That may not be the whole story.
In publicity for the Pinot noirs he produces at his vineyard in his home town of Otago, New Zealand, Sam Neill – of Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders fame – tells how he is still in the grip of the grape but his thespian mates are going on the wagon.
Let me quote Mr Neill: “Liam Neeson was always our most enthusiastic client but Liam has decided he is not drinking. And bloody Spall has given up. Who would have thunk it?”
I don’t know the state of Mr Spall’s liver but I do know the state of his face and wonder if he might return to the occasional livener, or in future he could be cast not as the paranormal researcher in TV’s brilliant
The Enfield Haunting but as the ghost.
I do hope he is ok.
Vow factor
DOMESTIC oven cleaner’s near Middlesbrough – Hobsnobs. Sandwich shop in Norwich – Season’s Eatings.
Dog walker in Rutland, East Mids – Hairy Hikers. Café in Nottingham – Room With A Brew.
Locksmith in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex – Inugo. Carpet van in Waterlooville, Hants – Get Gripped And Felt. Sign at Three Frogs pub in Wokingham, Berks – Frog parking only. All others are toad.
Window cleaner’s in Frome, Somerset – Albright And Shiny. House name in Sawley, Notts – Wits End.
Barber’s in the City of London to open shortly – Jack The Snipper.
They’re a lot funnier than a night out with Philip Hammond. Do send more punnies to kelvin@the-sun.co.uk.