Life Of Brian also features the Judean Popular People’s Front, consisting of a single old man, who may have been the model for Jeremy Corbyn, hailed in some quarters as The Messiah.Ĭorbyn’s not the Messiah. Or is it the People’s Liberation Front of Judea, constantly purging traitors and squabbling among themselves about ideological purity? Meanwhile, the official Opposition is being run by Momentum, the Labour Party’s answer to the People’s Front of Judea. So far, the EU has run rings round Davis, making the Department for Exiting the European Union look about as competent as the Ministry of Silly Walks.īack home, the fanatical Tory Remain gang - especially Here We Go Soubry Loo - come across as the Judean suicide squad from Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. If that had happened in a Python sketch - rather than in real life, on the floor of the House of Commons - it would have been cut short by Graham Chapman, dressed as a colonel in the British Army, marching on set, shouting:īarnier: I’m sorry, I’m not allowed to carry on arguing unless you agree to accept free movement of people and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.ĭavis: This isn’t negotiating, it’s blackmail. John Cleese and Co would be hard-pushed to improve on Grieve’s too-clever-by-half efforts to derail Brexit.įirst, he tables a wrecking amendment, written in lawyerly Pythonesque gibberish, and threatens to collapse the Government. In the remake, she’s more like the Black Knight, who, despite losing both arms and both legs in a sword fight, insists: ‘It’s only a flesh wound.’ In the original film, Theresa May would have played King Arthur, leading her Round Table on a quest for the elusive Holy Grail of Brexit, while her enemies throw increasingly bizarre obstacles in her way. But who needs Monty Python when we’ve got Brexit? It would be virtually impossible to invent anything more surreal than the latest high farce in Parliament.
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