Widdecombe

For years I thought her name was Widdlecombe and couldn't understand why she didn't just change it. (Mind you, for a while, I also thought Ed Balls had made his name up, because it was so unlikely anyone would have kept it if it was for real).

I saw Widdecombe's speech at the EU parliament on TV and I can't say I was surprised. There's an element among the Brexit Party that feels they are martyrs, although I have to ask who the hell knows why. Brexit won - if that's what the mess that is now brexit can be called a win. But the Brexiteers are either so arrogant or so lacking in emotional intelligence, they will say anything to get attention.

After all, Ann Widdicombe is the politician who went on a TV dancing programme despite the fact she can't dance. She's the female equivalent of the blustering fool in the Westminster Parliament who keeps on standing up to make points of order even after the Speaker tells her (nicely) to sit down and shut the f*** up.

I saw suggestions online tonight that we get the government we deserve and I deny that absolutely. There are very few people in England - or any other part of the UK - who voted for the likes of Ann Widdecombe. Or who think the likes of Ann Widdecombe speaks on their behalf. I'm pretty sure many people in England cringe when she mouths her views - as she does standing right next to Farage...

But this is where we are in the UK: we just have to wait for morons like this to go away - or leave  the UK. To be fair, that would suit me.