I think the Scottish courts’ decision is another gift to Cummings. He and Johnson are being seen as ‘losing’ time after time, which is apparently humiliating.
Except it all plays into their narrative and strategy: ‘The will of the people’; “We voted leave”, ‘Democracy isn’t being served’, and so on. A butcher interviewed in his shop in Leeds summed up what I strongly suspect is a widely held view, “I normally vote Labour but this time I’ll either vote Nigel Frottage or Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson or whoever wants to get us out of Europe, because Watson and Jeremy Corbyn are just useless, they do not believe in democracy and the will of the people”.
Enough to make you weep, but that level of entrenched thinking is echoed whenever Vox Pops is used. And it’s depressing to consider that it’s either very prevalent, or the BBC are complicit in unbalanced reporting.
Then there’s McCluskey at the TUC conference telling the BBC reporter how marginalised and delusional Tom Watson has become, for having the temerity to hold a point of view suggesting the shortfall in support for Labour in every poll, could be closed if Labour had a clear Remain policy. McCluskey makes me angrier than virtually anyone else on the hard left; he’s a thoroughly despicable man.