Melanie Phillips suggested this and the replies were everything you’d hope for
Here’s broadcaster and journalist Melanie Phillips sharing her one-stop shop solution to the shambles currently known as Brexit Britain.
I’ve said it before: draft Farage. Sack May, give Farage a peerage, make him party leader and PM – at least until UK really does properly leave the EU.
Too fanciful? Desperate times need desperate measures; public faith in democratic process now in dangerhttps://t.co/DSOo5sUneT— Melanie Phillips (@MelanieLatest) July 9, 2018
Well, yes, there’s probably a parallel universe somewhere in which this might indeed be the ideal solution.
But these 17 replies to the former Daily Mail, now Times columnist are probably a tiny bit closer to reality.
1.
Democracy is in danger. So let’s undemocratically appoint to an unelected chamber a guy who failed to get democratically elected 7 times and put him in charge even though he hasn’t been democratically elected. That should reassure everyone about democracy. https://t.co/ETYJwFik5d
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) July 9, 2018
2.
fair play this is the stupidest tweet i have ever seen
— I Have No Smash Mouth And I Must Scream (@stefmowords) July 9, 2018
3.
I’d go further Mel. Make Farage Emperor. Let literal wolves literally tear May to pieces. Shoot everyone called Jeff https://t.co/EdLQB6RR4u
— Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) July 9, 2018
4.
The man who has never produced a single detailed workable proposal for leaving the EU despite banging on about it for 20 years? That man? Are you on glue Melanie?
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) July 9, 2018
5.
Tory backbenchers: Jacob Rees-Mogg is the most ludicrous selection for PM imaginable
Melanie Phillips: Hold my motherfucking beer https://t.co/iInoNnc13j
— . (@twlldun) July 9, 2018
6.
Somebody please tell Melanie Phillips her Twitter account has been hacked by a lunatic.
— Graeme Garden (@GraemeGarden1) July 9, 2018
7.
Or… maybe release millions of giant killer bees over Bedfordshire and amputate the left leg of everyone who is Sagittarius? #TooFanciful https://t.co/OFyo3eKBMO
— John O'Farrell (@mrjohnofarrell) July 9, 2018