THERE’S a phrase doing the rounds that is used when a question does not deserve a definitive answer because it is so obvious. “It is what it is”. It perfectly describes my reaction when I hear the desperate attempts by EU grandee’s to influence the British voting public to elect a government of choice by conjuring up fictitious warnings of a 100 billion Euro bill. 

Add the embarrassing performance of Ms Diane Abbot; (Shadow Home Sec.) who stated she could buy 20,000 policemen for thirty quid a piece who was then savaged so much by the press; causing a worthy aspiration of Labour policy to be lost in the aftermath.

Then we have the stoic Mrs May; rounding on the EU negotiators for threatening all kinds of mayhem over Brexit.

You don’t have to possess a long memory to recognise the similarities of such statements; George Osborne’s financial Armageddon was a case in point; so expect to hear many claims and counter claims between now and election day. 

This is politics folks, ‘It is what it is’.

Malcolm M Richards
Aberthaw Road
Newport