BREXIT A CALAMITY, SAYS PR MAN.

Someone called James Chapman has been in the news recently, making noises about Brexit being a calamity and various political figures of both left and right being interested in forming a new party. It seems that he's been 'tweeting' prolifically and giving assorted interviews to anyone who'll listen. Such mouthings from a largely unknown personage would probably have been ignored except for the fact that Mr Chapman was on the staff of David Davis, the Conservative Brexit Secretary, until June this year.

The media has leapt on Mr Chapman's remarks as if they're of real moment. Sadly, the same media has said little if anything about Mr Chapman's history or current occupation.

Before taking on his role with David Davis, Chapman was a 'PR' man and spin doctor for that arch-Europhile, George Osborne, apparently being a committed 'Remainer' himself; why he ever took a job with an arch-Eurosceptic such as Davis raises questions. Now, after only a few months in post with Mr Davis, he has taken on a lucrative job with a PR company, Bell Pottinger, in the City of London, specifically to cater for clients with political axes to grind.

He took up his new role on 26th June and one has difficulty believing that his outbursts in the last 2 or 3 days are anything but moves on his part to promote the Europhile views of certain customers of his new employer; for all we know, he may even be dancing to the tune of his former master, George Osborne, again.

It's hard to conclude that this man is anything more than a mouthpiece for whomever happens to be paying his wages at any particular time and his 'twitterings' should be treated with the contempt that all such PR outpourings deserve.

EU REFERENDUM : THE SKY WILL FALL IN, SAYS CHICKEN LICKEN.

Yawn !

Thank heaven the referendum is not far away now. Yesterday, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, teamed up with one of his Labour predecessors, Alistair Darling, to tell us more horror stories about what might happen in the event of the British people voting to leave the European Union. As usual from the 'Remain' campaign, it's a long list of frighteners.

According to these 2 economic giants, a 'Brexit' vote would mean an emergency Budget with the most terrible effects on us all. We'd have massive tax rises, huge cuts in public services, particularly the highly sensitive NHS, but also education and the police, and all be much worse off as our economy crumbles. These pseudo-predictions are, of course, based on the same negative assumptions as the forecasts issued by other Government directed bodies, pro-EU politicians and establishment organisations, and are every bit as debateable.

Former Chancellors of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont, plus former Conservative Party leaders Ian Duncan Smith and Michael Howard, have all condemned this invented picture of the future saying that it displayed "startling dishonesty" and was "born of desperation". Quite clearly, it is designed to frighten voters into doing what they're being told by those who have a vested interest in keeping the status quo, from which they benefit massively.

George Osborne and David Cameron have nailed their colours to the mast and know that their political futures are in the balance. Cameron has already said that he will not lead his party into another General Election, so his political future is already limited unless, of course, he expects to follow Tony Blair's example and become some sort of international political guru, paid insane amounts of money by organisations such as the European Union for doing very little. A vote for 'Brexit' would certainly upset this particular apple cart.

In Osborne's case, 12 months ago he had solid expectations of becoming the next leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister; today, this ambition has been blown apart and his only chance of any sort of future position in British politics is for there to be a vote to stay in the EU. Even then, he has so damaged his reputation within his party that there will be huge opposition to him and it could well be that, whichever way the vote goes, his position will, very quickly,prove to be untenable. Osborne's career in politics is surely over.

Amidst the lies and hypocrisy, one question remains supreme. Do we want to govern ourselves and make our own decisions, laws and rules, or do we want to let a load of faceless and largely anonymous people from across Europe do it for us ?

VOTE LEAVE !!