Jack MacRoary's Big Brexit Blethers
Episode Three
Genre: Drama
Swearwords: None.
Description: Plenty of questions, but no answers.
Swearwords: None.
Description: Plenty of questions, but no answers.
I will vote for the first time tomorrow (when you read this). This is because the Scottish Parliament allows 16 and 17 year olds to vote, which is a good thing. But then I won’t be able to vote in the General Election a month later. Do you need any more reason as to why I think Scotland should be independent?
Of course lots of people say that local council elections aren’t important but that’s not true because it’s the local councils that sort out all the day to day things like the roads and the bins and the schools and all that sort of thing, so of course they are important. This year of course they have become a bit hijacked by the ‘snap’ General Election and no one seems to be talking about anything except Theresa May’s bid for a ‘strong and stable’ government. That is her ‘platform’ and she doesn’t even seem to care to say she’s Conservative, it’s like she wants everyone to vote for her personally. And we know what happens when you get caught up in personality politics, don’t we Donald Trump!
So I will be proud to vote and I’m quite excited about going in to the polling station – though I can’t help but laugh when I think back to the fiasco we had at DrumTumshie polling station in 2014 with Micro the Pig. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you need to buy a copy of The Complete TattyBogle and CATCH UP. I know that was a bit of shameless marketing but it’s not exactly as shameless as anything that Theresa May or Ruth Davidson are up to now, is it?
If you’re looking for some insightful comment from me on the whole political situation at the moment, I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place. I’ve been hard at work revising for my exams which start on Friday. Maths. And my Modern Studies exam is on the 19th. I wonder if they’ll give us a question about the council elections? That’s the trouble with Modern Studies, it’s not like History which is all old stuff, it’s constantly changing and we have to keep up to speed. Mr Marker has given up, though. He says no one can keep up with what’s going on just now. We had our last class the other day and I asked him if I could use the ‘The EU is not a Golf Club’ as a quote. He said, ‘A week’s a long time in politics, isn’t it?’ and left the room with his shoulders drooping. He doesn’t know my plan to pass so that he will feel proud of me, and I feel it’s really important to do well now because otherwise he may give up teaching forever. And though we’ve had our differences in the past, he’s a good guy when all is said and done. As he left I said ‘See you at the polling station, sir,’ but he didn’t even crack a smile.
I said I’ve been revising and it’s true, but DrumTumshie had the day off yesterday for our big May Day festival and guess what, you never will, guess who came to DrumTumshie on the campaign trail? It was Nicola Sturgeon. Now you’ll remember I met her a couple of years ago when my mum needed some consolation post indy ref, but I didn’t think she’d remember me when I was standing in the High Street. She did, though. She came right up to me and said ‘Jack, how are you?’ And I said ‘Very well and I’m going to be voting on Thursday, thanks to you.’ And she asked how my mum was and she gave me a hug and that made me feel really proud that the First Minister remembers who I am.
So I’m sorry that this is so short and not very sweet, but I am really busy and with all that’s going on in the world you probably want me to stay around and do a load more episodes, but I have to get my exams out of the way, so I’m sorry, I won’t be able to make any more comments until after the election. By which time there may not be anything left to say. But like the Terminator – I’ll be back with more Brexit Blethers the other side of the election. Someone has to be talking about Brexit and let’s face it, Theresa May is doing her very best to obfuscate (good word for my English exam) things and pull focus away from the disaster that is about to befall. I’ll leave you with the greatest unanswered question of our time: How is it that when Scotland wanted to have another Independence Referendum the time was not right because we had to focus on Brexit and then suddenly there’s an Election which is all about giving Theresa May a ‘mandate’ and Brexit seems to have got lost in the smoke and mirrors? I hope they don’t give us that question on May 19th because I certainly don’t have an answer – do you?
Of course lots of people say that local council elections aren’t important but that’s not true because it’s the local councils that sort out all the day to day things like the roads and the bins and the schools and all that sort of thing, so of course they are important. This year of course they have become a bit hijacked by the ‘snap’ General Election and no one seems to be talking about anything except Theresa May’s bid for a ‘strong and stable’ government. That is her ‘platform’ and she doesn’t even seem to care to say she’s Conservative, it’s like she wants everyone to vote for her personally. And we know what happens when you get caught up in personality politics, don’t we Donald Trump!
So I will be proud to vote and I’m quite excited about going in to the polling station – though I can’t help but laugh when I think back to the fiasco we had at DrumTumshie polling station in 2014 with Micro the Pig. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you need to buy a copy of The Complete TattyBogle and CATCH UP. I know that was a bit of shameless marketing but it’s not exactly as shameless as anything that Theresa May or Ruth Davidson are up to now, is it?
If you’re looking for some insightful comment from me on the whole political situation at the moment, I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place. I’ve been hard at work revising for my exams which start on Friday. Maths. And my Modern Studies exam is on the 19th. I wonder if they’ll give us a question about the council elections? That’s the trouble with Modern Studies, it’s not like History which is all old stuff, it’s constantly changing and we have to keep up to speed. Mr Marker has given up, though. He says no one can keep up with what’s going on just now. We had our last class the other day and I asked him if I could use the ‘The EU is not a Golf Club’ as a quote. He said, ‘A week’s a long time in politics, isn’t it?’ and left the room with his shoulders drooping. He doesn’t know my plan to pass so that he will feel proud of me, and I feel it’s really important to do well now because otherwise he may give up teaching forever. And though we’ve had our differences in the past, he’s a good guy when all is said and done. As he left I said ‘See you at the polling station, sir,’ but he didn’t even crack a smile.
I said I’ve been revising and it’s true, but DrumTumshie had the day off yesterday for our big May Day festival and guess what, you never will, guess who came to DrumTumshie on the campaign trail? It was Nicola Sturgeon. Now you’ll remember I met her a couple of years ago when my mum needed some consolation post indy ref, but I didn’t think she’d remember me when I was standing in the High Street. She did, though. She came right up to me and said ‘Jack, how are you?’ And I said ‘Very well and I’m going to be voting on Thursday, thanks to you.’ And she asked how my mum was and she gave me a hug and that made me feel really proud that the First Minister remembers who I am.
So I’m sorry that this is so short and not very sweet, but I am really busy and with all that’s going on in the world you probably want me to stay around and do a load more episodes, but I have to get my exams out of the way, so I’m sorry, I won’t be able to make any more comments until after the election. By which time there may not be anything left to say. But like the Terminator – I’ll be back with more Brexit Blethers the other side of the election. Someone has to be talking about Brexit and let’s face it, Theresa May is doing her very best to obfuscate (good word for my English exam) things and pull focus away from the disaster that is about to befall. I’ll leave you with the greatest unanswered question of our time: How is it that when Scotland wanted to have another Independence Referendum the time was not right because we had to focus on Brexit and then suddenly there’s an Election which is all about giving Theresa May a ‘mandate’ and Brexit seems to have got lost in the smoke and mirrors? I hope they don’t give us that question on May 19th because I certainly don’t have an answer – do you?
About the Author
Jack MacRoary, also known locally as the Bard of DrumTumshie, comes from the small farming community of TattyBogle, which he has singlehandedly put on the map through his fame. After bursting onto the Scottish literary cultural scene in August 2012, when he appeared at the inaugural Edinburgh eBook Festival, Jack now attends DrumTumshie Academy.
During his brief but eventful literary career so far, Jack has been a blogger, providing an insightful commentary on rural life and Scots culture; a short story writer; and most recently a political commentator through his McSerial contributions to the McStorytellers website.
The Complete TattyBogle, Jack's first “real book” published by McStorytellers in 2015, brings together in a handy compendium all of his musings, commentaries and stories to date.
During his brief but eventful literary career so far, Jack has been a blogger, providing an insightful commentary on rural life and Scots culture; a short story writer; and most recently a political commentator through his McSerial contributions to the McStorytellers website.
The Complete TattyBogle, Jack's first “real book” published by McStorytellers in 2015, brings together in a handy compendium all of his musings, commentaries and stories to date.