Am I the only vodka drinker in a crowd of gin drinkers?

Ever felt out of fashion? That's me right now. I'm a vodka and tonic drinker. Gin is in fashion, so pooh to me!

It's been a while now since the gin movement started, and boy has it taken off. There are so many flavours and types around that, if you like gin, it's a dream come true. Everywhere I look there are magazine articles, tv programmes and internet sites all about this drink. I look at them all and think yummy what better on a  hot sunny day than a gin and tonic. The idea, the mystery, the fashionableness of it all, makes me aspire to be a gin drinker. Who wouldn't want to drink a gin flavoured with blood oranges, or maybe wild berries? Just add tonic and ice, maybe a slice of lemon, or heck go the whole hog and add a slice of cucumber, and away you go. The image of some cool person in large sunglasses, floppy hat and not a lot else, sipping a nice gin and tonic is bandied about all over the place. You are that person if you drink gin. You are that cool, fashionable person. In fact you can even look cool while drinking non alcoholic gin too. Imagine that. A gin that doesn't give you a hangover and still tastes like the real stuff, apparently. 

The problem is that I have tried to drink gin but I really don't like it. Honestly, I have tried. The only 'gin' I like is sloe gin, and I have to be in the right mood to drink that, and only in the winter. I've never liked gin, let's be honest. Years ago when I used to go out clubbing with my girlfriends I would drink wine or vodka while they would drink gin and tonics. My over-riding memory of those nights is my best friend delicately crying in the taxi after consuming vast quantities of gin muttering 'It's the gin. It's mother's ruin. It makes you cry, It's the gin'. More sniffles. I used to pat her on the shoulder and mutter 'It's the gin, don't worry'. I think that made me decided not to drink the stuff anyway! 

In my own 'cool' days I would sip vodka and lemonade with ice and a slice of lime. In fact when I think back I even drank vodka at college. Vodka and lime was my tipple of choice, introduced to me by a mate of my then boyfriend. I suppose I've never looked back after that. I like the purity of vodka and prefer to drink a barley version called Finlandia. I don't like any of this rye grass stuff either! It's a pity that you don't get the choice that you do with gin. I trawled an on line supermarket site and found five pages worth of gins and only two of vodkas. Rather disconcerting when you are attempting to get the drink of your choice. I must admit I've tampered with flavoured vodkas but always go back to the simple clarity of a pure unflavoured type. I have had a go at all those flavoured vodka Christmas pressies you see in the magazines every year (don't mention Christmas ahhhhhh). I've bought pretty cheap vodka, added skittles sweeties and watched the colour go day glo, and it does indeed taste rather good. One tip. Either use one skittle sweetie colour only, or stick to yellow and green OR red and blue, just don't add them all because the colour ends up rather weird. I've also done citrus peel infused vodka, and that was just as good. In fact I may just make some again this year.

So I think I will just label myself as 'different'. I like to stand out from the crowd and so why would I drink gin just to follow what everyone else is drinking? Nah. That's what I tell myself. Mind you, don't tell anyone but secretly deep inside I really do wish I liked gin because it does all sound so good when you read the label...…….but nope I just don't like it and that's that! I'll stick to vodka please. 

https://www.candystore.com/blog/recipes/sweets-with-an-adult-twist-our-favorite-candy-infused-vodka-recipes/

When you realise you sound like a ten year old.....

I listened to a recording of my voice the other day and was horrified! I sounding exactly like my aunt! I was all carefully spoken and quite high pitched, and my laugh was awful. This is not what I thought I sounded like!

I'm hoping that a recording distorts the voice a bit. I thought my voice was lower, and if it isn't I am going to have to practice speaking in to my chest a bit more. The voice I heard was rather poncey, and sounded more like a young child than someone of my age. My laugh was quite low though, not the fabulous peal of sound I thought it was. My illusion of myself has been shattered quite dramatically. 

At work we have to make tanoy announcements sometimes, and I really must try to lower my voice a bit. When you make the call you can actually hear yourself in the background. It's rather disconcerting, and sort of makes an echo as you speak in to the telephone microphone. The first time I heard myself I thought 'who the hell is that'. Then my next thought was 'oh my gosh it's me. Do I really sound like that?'

I wonder if other people hear your voice like you do yourself? How would you find out? I think I sound rather pretentious actually, and that is not how I want to come across. You know, that 'little miss know it all' that you want to shove in a separate room so you can't hear her. Don't deny it. We all know someone like that!  I listen to my colleagues at work and their voices sound more measured than mine. On the recordings I've surreptitiously made of my parents they sound just like I hear them anyway. Maybe my mother's accent is a little more pronounced, but apart from that they sound just as I expect. It's their voices that I love and want to keep alive. My brother sounds the same on the recording, and so does his laugh. The only conclusion I can come to is that I do actually sound like a slightly nasal ten year old girl! How horrific! 

In desperation I've returned to good old Google to type in the search bar 'does a recording of your voice sound like you'. Sad isn't it? Still the initial answer was what I wanted -
...........when you hear your voice on a recording, it usually sounds higher and weaker than you think it should. Don't worry if your voice sounds funny to you on a recording. Everyone experiences the same thing. Just because it sounds funny and different to you doesn't mean other people hear it that way.

Phew. That's okay then. But hang on, maybe not. Maybe I do actually sound like a recording, because the next information on google said this - 

The good news: There's evidence that suggests that while you may prefer the sound of your voice as it sounds in your head, the people around you probably prefer the sound of your voice as it exists in the real world. The mere-exposure effect, after all, works both ways. 

Oh dear. I really do sound like the recording. Apparently it's all to do with our bones in our head. That's why our voices sound deeper than other people hear. But how does that work when I can hear other people around me with deeper voices than I have? Gosh I really don't like my voice now!  wonder if I can practice speaker deeper. Right now as I write this I am actually speaking out loud in a deep voice! It sound weird but maybe I will try it on a recording, ha ha? Watch this space...….

Mr Bercow please butt out..........

Mr John Bercow is the Speaker of the House of Commons. The Speaker of the House of Commons is supposed to be unbiased. Mr Bercow is anything but unbiased.

Wikipedia explains that the Speaker 'remains strictly non-partisan and renounce all affiliation with their former political parties when taking office and afterwards'. Mr Bercow has been constantly accused of allowing his own beliefs and feelings to come in to play when he makes a decision in the House of Commons, and I agree. Don't get me wrong. He is clever, informed, and manages to pull little known laws out of the hat when he needs to, but that is not being unbias when you can be seen to thwart certain motions consistently. The important word here is 'consistently'.

Much as I don't want to harp on about it, I seem to be consistently writing about Brexit recently. It's become my bête noir. I honestly never thought my blog would end up so full of it, but then my bio says my blog is all about what I think, and Brexit seems to be on my mind a lot recently. It's very therapeutic to get it off my chest! 

So back to Mr John Bercow. He was a Conservative Party member, but his election to the Speakers Chair depended very heavily on the support of other parties. His election was also unpopular with many of his Conservative colleagues. I can see why. He has been a controversial Speaker, and to a layman's eye he meddles when he should be silent. Today he is in the news for two reasons. One is that he has announced he will stay on as Speaker of the House of Commons because 'it was not sensible to go while the momentous events of Brexit are happening'. To be honest that's rubbish. We're having a New Conservative Leader, we'll probably have a new Labour Leader soon the way things are going, so why not have a new Speaker? He has clashed with Tory MPs consistently and has been accused of  making up rules as he goes along. He certainly has been the most outspoken and involved Speaker for a long time. The second reason he is in the paper is that he has openly stated that he will make sure that MPs have a say over whether we leave the EU with No Deal or not. 

At the moment the current law says we will leave on the 31st October 2019. It isn't clear whether Parliament could stop a No Deal but Mr Bercow has proved to be rather 'flexible' in his Speaker approach recently where Brexit has been concerned. It could be that Parliament will have to rush through a new law to get another postponement if a No Deal seems inevitable. What the MPs and Mr Bercow believe the EU will do about that is beyond me. As I have stated before, the EU have totally and categorically said they are now getting fed up with the dithering and will not tolerate another delay. All the other EU member states would have to agree another delay. It would only take one member state to say no extension and that would be it. The cost to all of the countries is growing, business wise and economically wise, not to mention that everyone's nerves are getting fraught. They will not allow another extension, and it appears they could turn round and say that we cannot leave if this carries on. I suspect that is what some people, some MPs and Mr Bercow want. I cannot imagine the mood of this country if that would happen, but be it on their heads. 

There are a couple of scenarios possible if Mr Bercow starts this action. The MPs could pass a resolution rejecting a No Deal but that would not be legally binding, and so it could still go ahead. MPs could call for a no confidence vote in the Government and bring it down. What a mess the House of Commons would be in then. 
This is Mr Bercow's statement - 

'My reading of the situation is that legally the default position in the absence of an agreement is Brexit on October 31.  'There can, however, be a difference between what the law says and what political movements between now and then decrees. 'I'm not saying that Brexit without a deal will happen and I'm not saying that it definitely won't. I am saying that Parliament and individual parliamentarians will have strong views about these matters. 'There is a difference between a legal default position and what the interplay of political forces in Parliament will facilitate.'The idea that there is an inevitability of a No Deal Brexit would be a quite wrong suggestion. There is no inevitability whatsoever about that.' 

Mr John Bercow denies impartiality. He says that he has allowed both sides to be heard, but he also admits he voted to Remain. I have accused MPs before of doing what they believe in, rather than doing the will of the majority of their constituents. I would suggest this is what Mr Bercow has done, and is doing. This is my opinion from my observations and my prerogative to think this, but I am not the only person to feel this way. The media is full of his statement today.

He also mentioned who he admires 'for their capability for answering urgent questions in Parliament'. Quote 'In the present Government, if I may say so, I would cite Michael Gove and Jeremy Hunt as very good examples of extremely capable ministers who have got the intellectual self-confidence as well as the communication skill and the dexterity at the despatch box to cope at that which is thrown at them'. That smacks of unbias where the Leadership of the Conservative Party contest is concerned! He knows he can influence MPs and as such should keep out of it all. He is there to keep the order of the House of Commons when it is sitting, and as such should do his job rather than meddle. But Mr Bercow has always done what he feels is right. So maybe I should admire him for his stance. Actually all he does is irritate me for bending the rules of his job, and allowing himself to get involved when he should be neutral. 

Mr Bercow please will you butt out, be quiet for once, and let MPs get on with their job!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bercow

Please let's have some respect.

One of the Guardian newspaper's headlines today is 'The Remainers won these elections and they'd win a second Brexit referendum'.

Nigel Farage's Brexit Party has won the most MEP seats in the European Parliamentary elections. The Brexit Party is a political party that wishes the country to follow the original referendum result and leave the EU. The Guardian newspaper wishes for a second referendum because the sum total of the other MEP political parties, with the Conservatives and Labour divided up how they think it would be, would tally up to more Remainers than Leavers. We have a First Past The Post system for most of our elections. That sort of system means that the Brexit party would be an all out winner as they had the majority of votes. If we had a General Election and they had received the most votes, they would become the ruling party in Parliament. But, and it's a big but, you have to have an overall majority above those of the remaining parties because otherwise other political parties can overrule what you want to do. As a result a political party will often have a 'coalition' which is made up of a couple of political parties (trying) to get together and run the government. I haven't a clue who the Brexit Party would enter in to a coalition with as they are a new political party. It could be very interesting if it ever happened. 

The Guardian newspaper says that if you add up all the MEP results you will see that there are overall more Remainers than Leavers, but it's close. It was close in the original referendum too, but you cannot keep choosing to have more voting on the same thing over and over again until you get the result you want. The Guardian is a pro EU newspaper so they want another vote. But we have already had a vote! People will come out in their millions to vote on something like that again, and again it will be a close result I am sure. So would we end up in the position of a reversal of winners, the Remainers, if we had another vote? Probably. But then what could happen is the Leavers could turn round and say 'hang on' it was a close result, people don't really understand and so we better have another vote to check and see what people really want. Then we could have a third referendum and the result could be different again. You cannot keep going on and on. How many votes should you have on a subject? A lot of people didn't like the result of the original EU referendum. I was shocked too. I didn't realise how strongly people felt. The EU was shocked. But the decision was clear, if by a small majority. People wanted to leave, and so we have been trying to do that for the last couple of years. 

Anyway the Guardian Newspaper has been rather derogatory about the people who voted to leave and I just get very fed up with all the disrespect happening everywhere. It's happened over the last couple of days after the MEP results, too. The vileness and bitterness on Social Media is perplexing to me. I hold my hand up and say I voted to leave originally, and would do the same again. I object to it being suggested that most of the people who did that were 'ill informed', 'lied to' and 'didn't understand what they were voting for'. Other descriptions have been used, many seriously derogatory, about the sensibility of anyone that voted that way, and particularly their age. Believe me, I did a lot of research before I chose the direction of my vote. I am sure a lot of people did. Why would just the people who voted Remain check out the information? Why couldn't the Leavers have done the same? To suggest that somehow anyone who voted to leave is 'mentally impaired', 'stupid', 'crass', 'old' and so on, is an affront to anyone. There has been nastiness on both sides. Some who voted to leave have called anyone voting to stay that they are 'under an illusion', 'unpatriotic' and 'ill informed'. Equally bitter and vile words have been used. It has got incredibly unpleasant, and leaves a nasty taste in my mouth. I can honestly say that had the result been that we should remain in the EU I would have been sad because that was not how I voted, but I would have accepted it and got on with things. I would not have shouted out that as the result was so close we should vote again, just incase the result was different. I certainly would not have been so rude and obnoxious to those that voted differently to me. In fact, while I would have been irritated, I would have got on with trying to make this country the place I know it can be. A united place, where anyone and everyone can live, freely, and that can happen whether we leave or stay. 

I have my reasons for why I voted, as does every one. I do not have to justify why I voted the way I did. All I and many other people wish for, is that we get on with it. Move forward instead of stalemating. The MPs in Parliament stalled and argued amongst themselves instead of doing that. We relied on them to honour a vote result, as they have in the past. It hasn't happened and that is why I am looking very carefully at what is happening around this country right now. We are so in danger of becoming what we hate in other countries. A directorship, (not dictatorship), where you are told what is going to happen, however you voted.We have a democratic system, and as such it should be followed through. 

I implore people to calm down. We need to agree to disagree in a respectful way. We need to be nice to each other! We can argue until the cows come home, but you cannot expect to sway people if they have made their minds up, and most of us have. The other people are simply fed up with it all and have stepped back. Maybe we should watch out for those people, because they are the ones in the background who may just creep up on us all while we are bickering with each other?

https://www.nriol.com/uk-visitors/politics-in-uk.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting

Let's show the world what we are made of..........

Just as I thought. The MEP results shows a split in this country again. I suspect it will be the same when we have our next General Election too. There will have to be a coalition, and that is how the decisions will be made. It will be interesting to see if we end up with another referendum, though the outcry will be huge. After all another referendum will prove our democracy is not all it makes out to be.

So the results are -

East of England (7 MEPs)

Brexit Party 38%, Lib Dems 23%, Greens 13%, Tories 10%, Labour 9%, Change UK 4%, Ukip 3%

Brexit Party 3 MEPs, Lib Dems 2, Greens 1, Tories 1

East Midlands (5 MEPs)

Brexit Party 38%, Lib Dems 17%, Labour 14%, Tories 11%, Greens 11%, Ukip 5%, Change UK 4%

Brexit Party 3 MEPs, Lib Dems 1, Labour 1

London (8 MEPs)

Lib Dems 27%, Labour 24, Brexit Party 18%, Greens 12%, Tories 8%, Change UK 5%, Ukip 2%

Lib Dems 3 MEPs, Labour 2, Brexit Party 2, Greens 1

North East (3 MEPs)

Brexit Party 39%, Labour 19%, Lib Dems 17%, Greens 8%, Tories 7%, Ukip 6%, Change UK 4%

Brexit Party 2 MEPs, Labour 1

North West (8 MEPs)

Brexit Party 31%, Labour 22%, Lib Dems 17%, Greens 13%, Tories 8%, Ukip 4%, Change UK 3%

Brexit Party 3 MEPs, Labour 2, Lib Dems 2, Greens 1

South East (10 MEPs)

Brexit Party 36%, Lib Dems 26%, Greens 14%, Tories 10%, Labour 7%, Change UK 4%, Ukip 2%

Brexit Party 4 MEPs, Lib Dems 3, Greens 1, Tories 1, Labour 1

South West (6 MEPs)

Brexit Party 37%, Lib Dems 23%, Greens 18%, Tories 9%, Labour 7% Ukip 3%, Change UK 3%

Brexit Party 3, Lib Dems 2, Greens 1

West Midlands (7 MEPs)

Brexit Party 38%, Labour 17%, Lib Dems 16%, Greens 11%, Tories 10%, Ukip 5%, Change UK 3%

Brexit Party 3 MEPs, Labour 1, Lib Dems 1, Greens 1, Tories 1

Yorkshire & Humber (6 MEPs)

Brexit Party 37%, Labour 16%, Lib Dems 16%, Greens 13%, Tories 7%, Ukip 4%, Yorkshire Party 4%, Change UK 2%

Brexit Party 3 MEPs, Labour 1, Lib Dems 1, Greens 1

Wales (4 MEPs)

Brexit Party 33%, Plaid Cymru 20%, Labour 15%, Lib Dems 14%, Tories 7%, Greens 6%, Ukip 3%

Brexit Party 2 MEPs, Plaid Cymru 1, Labour 1

Scotland (6 MEPs)

[Official results declared 11am, but nearly all votes are already counted]

SNP 38%, Brexit Party 15%, Lib Dems 14%, Tories 12%, Scottish Labour 9%, Greens 8%

SNP 3 MEPs, Brexit Party 1, Lib Dems 1, Tories 1

Northern Ireland (3 MEPs)

Full results expected Tuesday afternoon

Overwhelmingly the Brexit party have the most MEPs. What would happen if the Liberals and the Labour party formed an alliance would be anyone's guess, but to be honest their manifestos are far apart except for Brexit. The results were just like the EU referendum and no-one expected London to have any other result but 'remain'. As for Scotland? Well the SMP have always done well ,and it will be interesting to see if they go ahead with their threat to have a vote for  independence if we leave the EU. I think that would be a travesty though. To see if they can go it alone, and it wont be as easy as they think, will be a sad reflection on what people think of our United Kingdom. We need to be pulling together not splitting up. 

So what is the media making of the results? Well they are saying just what I said a few days ago actually. The country is still split on leaving the EU. The Conservative Party and Labour have paid the price for their messes on Brexit. The results in most areas were similar to that of the original EU referendum. It's interesting to note that we will still obviously have a difficult time ahead. Nothing has really changed and I'm just waiting to see if the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow will put his finger in again and get involved, even though he is supposed to be unbiased. 

So I think the future for this country is going to go one of two ways. We will either leave with no deal on the thirty first of October this year, or we will have a second referendum. A second referendum will split the country again, and to be honest the argument will go on and on because of it. We need to end it once and for all to be frank. Accept the decision of the majority. If the EU wont give any more concessions we leave with no deal, and move forward with our heads held high. Our country, as I have said before, is resilient. We have fought our own battles with and without the help of allies. We have shown we can be leaders, and can manage our own affairs. It is time to stop all this messing about and move on. Let's get back to business, let's get back to being Great Britain, The United Kingdom, and getting this country on the road to what it deserves. We have a great place to live in, whatever you may think. We have freedom, we are liberal and we are forward thinking. Let's show the world what we are made of...…….

Did you just click 'accept' to that box collecting cookies on a website?

I watched a slightly disconcerting BBC Click programme today. I freely admit to accepting cookies, and goodness knows what when I am looking at web sites. After seeing this today I realise I need to be far more careful what I accept.

How many of us see the little box pop up stating 'we use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with social media, advertising and analytics partners', see 'details' and actually click on the 'see details' bit? How many of us just click 'got it' or 'accept'? I've looked at the further details before and tried to tick what I don't want shared and then suddenly I can't access the information on the site. It seems very unfair of companies to do this, and restrict the viewing. Maybe they get money for sharing our data? Even this site Blogger get's me to accept the cookies bit! 

When you click on the 'details' bit you actually get quite a lot of interesting...and important....information. For example why the information is shared, data retention, and the fact that you can look up the data held on you by using a data lookup tool app. There's generally a list of information about 'the usage, technical and identify metrics that are commonly stored and processed when you use the website'......

Your location information, including country, state, city, metro and postal code

The webpage your were at before this website

The type of browser you use and the version

The brand and operating system of your device

What time zone you're in and what time it is there

What pages on this site you visit

How you interact with this website, including time spent, how much you scroll and your mouse movements

The size of your devices screen and the size of the browser on that screen

What content you share on the page

If you copy and paste content on this website

What ad or link you clicked on to arrive at this website

The type of internet connection you use and your ISP or service provider

How long it takes for this website's content to get transferred to your browser, load in your browser and render

The weather where you are currently located

Your age and gender

Your ip address

A unique id so that we can recognize you

What ads you click on

I found it quite horrifying to see what can actually be accessed. I mean why know about the weather? How do they find out the weather? What do they use that information for? I understand all the rest as it's obviously to do with marketing and targeting advertising, but the weather? You also get a list of vendors that may use the website you are accessing and what purpose they will use your data for. The fact I will happily click 'accept' makes me realise my data information must be out there in internet land for a heck of a lot of companies to see. 

Everyone has noticed the advertising that sometimes appears along side some of the sites you view. I may look at a catalogue company's site or Amazon, for example and lo and behold their advertising, on the very products I've been looking at, will appear on any page I am viewing. I have been more careful since I read about mobile phones picking up information, too. I genuinely never thought it was true until I happened to make a passing comment to a work colleague about something very unusual,l and a couple of hours later I had that very item pop up in an advert on my mobile when I accessed a site. This was from a passing spoken comment and it freaked me out so I went on line, googled it and sorted my security on my mobile in my settings by turning off my mic. So far so good. No more creepy adverts popping up after I have made a random comment! Some technology really does listen in to what you are saying!

The Click programme showed the journalist using a new hoover robot that mapped the floor plan of his house. He then took the hoover to a researcher who found out that the information about his floor plan, and a lot of other details, had been sent to an IP address in China. That was when I realised that data collection could be a very lucrative worldwide business, but also dangerous in the wrong hands. Technology is all well and good but it can also be misused. Why would a company in China want information about a house floor plan in England? Hopefully there is some good reason for it! 

So next time you accept those cookies maybe you should read the information they provide about how they will use your information? It is there for you, but in this day and age of widely used technology to gain information about us as consumers, maybe we have become rather too complacent about who is accessing it and what judgements they are making about us? I can really recommend watching the video link I have given below because it may open your eyes, just like it has for me. 

What tech giants really do with your data -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44702483

Gmail messages read by human third parties -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44699263

BBC Click video about data
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0005cx6/click-gdpr-one-year-on

Shame on all you MPs

I was so cross yesterday that I stomped about twitter and Facebook making my feelings very plain. Theresa May has set a date for her to leave as Prime Minister. I wasn't annoyed at that. No, sadly I expected it. I was annoyed by the reaction.

First things first. Theresa May made her announcement outside number ten in Downing Street in front of the press. In fact in front of the world, as it was obviously broadcast everywhere. She was dignified in her very obvious distress, and as she crumpled with her final words the cameras clicked away to capture the moment. I don't blame them as this was breaking news, not entirely unexpected, but still big news. 

As I watched Theresa May's voice break towards the end of her speech I could only shake my head. She has always been true to herself. She has been staunch in horrendous adversity, and resolute in her aim. I do not feel anything but sympathy for her as she clearly loves our country and her job very much. I feel is that she has been sorely betrayed and chucked under the figurative bus. Those close to her muttered all the right words while plotting behind her back. She was ill advised and yet stood resolute until the end. 

What annoyed me more than anything was what happened next. Many MPs had the audacity to praise her speech and what she had tried to do, after pretty much stabbing her in the back. The hypocrites! She has never had the support of most of her MPs, and all the wheeling and dealing that went on would have destroyed any business let alone the Conservative and Unionist Party. Because that is what all those ridiculous MPs have done. They have shown the public that they cannot come to an agreement about something so important that businesses are struggling to survive, people are losing faith and the world is laughing at them. The stubbornness of some of them have placed the two major political parties in danger of never having a majority in government again. They have changed the face of politics for the foreseeable future, and all I can see is more bickering. Shame on you all. You should rightly be condemned by the people of this country for not helping Theresa May to fulfil the wish of the majority. To leave the EU. It has all been self, self, self. What the MP themselves wanted, agreed on, didn't agree on. Never what their constituents wanted. I will certainly never vote Conservative again, and neither will I vote Labour. They have made me despair for the future of this country.

The other thing that made me furious was the vilification of Theresa May on social media. The crass comments of rudeness and condemnation was uncalled for. Have an opinion sure, but there was no need for some of the comments that floated about. Many were disgusting, taunting and jeering. She was ridiculed for crying. Ridiculed for her position, and some even ridiculed her for being a women. I was furious, and made it clear to everyone around me that I felt a huge injustice was being played out. She literally was thrown to the lions! 

The next Prime Minister will be equally as determined as Theresa May was. Hopefully determined to fulfil what has been promised. But do they honestly think it will make one scrap of difference to the EU that it is a new person coming to negotiate? Will it heck. They have told us countless times that they will not budge. They have conceded on a number of issues and allowed us to delay and delay. It is costing the EU and this country time and money, and causing a horrendous uncertainty. Eventually, if they are not careful, this will turn in to serious instability in our economy. All this is down to the MPs alone. The EU don't give a jot what new offer will float over to them via a new British Prime Minister. They don't want us to leave anyway so why would they give us any more leeway? In fact the best thing that can now happen is we simply leave. We go. Bang. Shocking, but we do it. Forget any deal. A quick short sharp burst and we are gone. It would send a rocket up the EU, and show all those dithering nations that also are rumbling about saying they may wish to leave that you just have to get and do it sometimes, instead of waffling and trying to be nice.

So all you MPs. You've ousted the lady. Well you better hope and pray what you get next is what you want, or you will all have a nasty shock. You may find yourself wishing Theresa May was still Prime Minister!