Linking back to rugby, it seems that the two largest parties are following the Bulls example by trying to play without a leader on the pitch!

Imagine their petty, small minded faces when the dawning realisation that no veto on Turkish membership means the exact thing they we're crowing and shouting about stopping is going to happen only now they can do Jack Sh1t to stop it...

Three weeks ago Germany officially recognised the Armenian genocide as the historical fact that it is.

That right there was the nearest signal to a formal end of the long abandoned Turkish hopes of joining we're going to get. They've been pivoting to the near east since Erdogan came to power.

Turkey was the reddest red herring in the whole debate.

the right wing press who fermented the supposed threat of immigration, fear of forriners, rule by Brussels will ensure there is no going back.

There are currently freaking out too, though I suspect because freaking the fsck out is the thing that sells right now.

Also, they need to pass through something before turning their ire on the low waged / unemployed as the scourge of society.

(Just today I have twice walked away from conversations with people who regret their vote. I work with them, and they have fscked themselves just like they have fscked me and the rest of this city's largest employer outside the council. It was an hour ago and I'm still shaking with rage. This is a scene being played out up and down the land. Good luck with that national unity gibberish. Not going to happen.)

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxbXzLNn0wIt's a week later and I am considerably calmer.[/url