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Wednesday 7th December 2016

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What is guaranteed about Brexit is that whatever happens it will not be with the wishes of the majority. Because although everyone who voted to Remain wanted the same outcome, the people who voted Leave were doing so for lots of different reasons - from wanting to help the NHS to wanting Asian immigrants to be deported - and they are not all going to get what they wanted. In fact it seems to me that a tiny, tiny minority of the country will end up with Brexit meaning what they imagine it to mean (it doesn’t matter what colour it is, nobody has a definition yet) and that can only lead to disaster. 

"You lost get over it” is the common response to treating this subject with logic. But I am actually thinking of the people who won. They are unlikely to get what they wanted (unless all it was about was us not being a member of the EU, even if that means us having all the same stuff as we has when we were in the EU but paying more for it and receiving less) and when it strikes them that they’ve been (I want to say) duped, how are they going to react?

Is everyone just trying to defer this moment as long as possible? In the hope that a meteorite or Trumpite will destroy as all before we have to go through with it? 

All that is certain is that whatever happens it will be with the wishes of a minority and that seems a foolish way to run a democracy. But I guess it’s been the case at most general elections too.


The painful process of having to restart the search for a house, when in my head I was all prepped to be making that new start in about three weeks, is juddering onwards.  Thank God I have my daughter to cheer me up and give me incentive to carry on. I have been impressing her with my ability to make a popping noise with my finger and my cheek. I had a whole day to get cracking on my Radio 4 sitcom but my brain and body were not playing ball. And I went to my safe place of Addams Family Pinball and smashed my PB getting well over 2 billion for the first time. No one can take that away from me. Unless they take away the electricity. Which they might do.


It’s annoying to waste a day, when I have so much to do, but you can’t force yourself to be in the mood to create and the feelings of worthlessness might spur me on to do better another time. It’s OK. Writers are meant to feel worthless most of the time. It means those days where you achieve something are all the sweeter for their rarity.

I drank wine with my wife, ate a haloumi cheese salad (and as long as there is haloumi cheese there is still hope) and watched the last episode of Westworld, which I am struggling to follow 100% and I am a bit perturbed about the sex robots might kill me, but there’s some good twists and turns. Where is the drama about a man who makes sex robots, who don’t gain consciousness and so the man just has a happy life having sex with robots though?


The Ed Gamble RHLSTP is up in the usual places. I don’t normally watch these back but did view a fair chunk of this today and it made me laugh a lot. Ed is a very witty man and I am in a stupid and giddy mood (having been on largely best behaviour for the Caitlin Moran podcast that preceded it) and I laughed a lot. The Harry Potter Trivial Pursuits bit is particularly fun. It made me cry with laughter at the time and did so again today. I only wish we had pushed it even further. 


Thursday night I am doing The Best at Bridgwater Arts Centre. Come along Somerset.


And don’t forget episode 4 of AIOTM is being recorded on Sunday at the Leicester Square Theatre. Ticket sales are low (December is always a tough month) and it goes better with a crowd, so if you were thinking of coming to one, then please come to this one.



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