Danny Dyer. Our new national treasure, because he dissed Brexit and speaks without cut-glass tones.
“You see?” The remainiacs say.
“If a normal, down to earth bloke doesn’t get it, then we have been right all along”.
The remain cause has shown no love until now for Danny Dyer.
But, say a few swear words on national TV and whip up a quick frenzy in the Twitter echo chamber and soon the mainstream media will report on how you should be PM.
Well done everyone.
But here is where I actually think Dyer has a point. It’s not about Brexit, where he probably voted to leave anyway. It’s his point about David Cameron.
Now we can talk at length about how the former PM made bad political decisions; whether it was calling the referendum in the first place, or not seeing the opportunity in campaigning for leave after getting handed nothing in the prior EU negotiation. But he promised he would stay to implement the result of the vote, no matter which side won.
I believed him.
But any final respect I had vanished when he immediately resigned.
When it turned out that absolutely no work had been done to prepare for a possible leave vote, it just doubled down my disappointment at a politician who had detoxified the Tory brand enough to convert a hung parliament to a majority government.
So the frustration expressed by Dyer as to where David Cameron is now, I totally get.
A true democrat would have implemented the decision of the people, not run away.
He could have been bullet proof.
Turning round to Brussels and saying “see, I told you you should have agreed to meaningful reform”.
“Now you need to agree to a serious deal or we’ll just walk away without giving you a penny”
But instead we have Theresa May and her ungovernables…
Now of course my alternate universe Cameron is doing what I would do in his situation.
Equally there has always been a way for Theresa May as PM to get a good deal and I’m not the only person saying very clearly how that could have been achieved.
Yet here we are, two years in and I’m actually pining for a Cameron premiership. What’s the world coming to?