Mushrooms

The Times, concluding its leader on the defection of seven Labour MPs, appears to abandon all pretence of impartiality by concluding that Parliament must either back Theresa May’s deal or delay Brexit (by which, it follows, they mean begin the process by which the whole idea of leaving the EU may be progressively abandoned).  Whatever happened to WTO arrangements upon which, incidentally, the Conservative Front Bench are equally silent?  Whilst the political elite dream of sensible politics and centre ground consensus, mushrooms, crowding to a keyhole and who have come so far in darkness exclaim:

“We too had our lives to live.

You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,

Let not our naïve labours have been in vain!”

With grateful thanks to my friend Ian for pointing out Derek Mahon’s wonderful poem, “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford.”