Day 492, Gilbert and George do brexit

It is unclear whether the graphic artists Gilbert and George favour remaining within the EU.  Their admiration for Mrs Thatcher might suggest they would be inclined to stay.  But is anyone really interested in their half-baked opinions.

Another well known artistic couple, Nigel and George, have recently declared their allegiance on the EU, specifically on the ‘leave’ element.  Until this week they hadn’t been a couple at all, occupying completely different voids on the political spectrum.  How did they come together?  Opposites attract?  A blind date over a pint of Greene King IPA and a glass of apple juice?  Celebrity berk swap?

As with many apparent opposites they do have some things in common.  Both have been, or are still, glorious leaders of political parties.  Both are larger than life characters.  Both are enormously full of themselves.

Here’s a brief snapshot of their character traits - for some reason I get the image of them desiring to be rulers of an imperial realm.

Emperor Farage

Special skills: beer drinking while walking down the road, easy exasperation, plain spoken hearsay, simple minded every-moron approach, focus of a personality cult, extremist.

Emperor Galloway

Special skills: pompous, long-winded, obtuse and verbose, easy exasperation, focus of a personality cult, extremist.

When two became one in the back entries of Crumpsall, Manchester it was to make the beast with two backs, grunting to completion among the dog muck and dustbins and sung about by Mike Harding.

Here we have a partnership of the unprincipled, in plain view, arranged in an odious two-handed circle jerk, each desperate to satisfy their own needs by bringing the other to a climactic exit.  Witness the beast with two arseholes.  A bimodal nightmare even Mike Read would be reluctant to sing about.

Is anyone really interested in their half-baked opinions? Really?

It's moments like this which prompt people to suggest that satire is dead.  That can't be right, maybe just a little more work is needed to be heard over what’s become a new background level of the bizarre.

And what about the stay/leave debate itself?  Don't ask me, I haven't got a clue about the complexities of any of the arguments, the media watered down examples are so black and white as to be meaningless.  Maybe that means it must be time to go and formulate some half-baked opinions of my own.

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