The Author

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Tuesday 22 January 2019

BREXIT EXIT IN STINKING ROTTEN BOROUGH

BREXIT EXIT IN STINKING ROTTEN BOROUGH


Driver Chard has astonished all and sundry by exclaiming that he is to stand for Parliament in an election for a long forgotten parliamentary constituency.

If successful he will strive to dismiss the existing elected members of the House Of Commons and with the help of the unelected House of Lords declare Independence from the existing EU and strive to unite the country in a political and trading Confederation with a re-formed independent German Empire.

The "Rotten Borough" of "Belmont Duck" is located in a small corner of semi-rural countryside situated between the border of the London Borough of London and the county of Hertfordshire. The half acre of land was granted the status of a "Liberty" in 1313 by Pope Clement V and sanctioned by the then reigning English monarch Edward 111.

The land was managed by agents on behalf of the Abbey church at the Monastery of St Albans and sub-let to local parishioners until the Restoration, when the postage stamp sized parcel of land became associated with the Glebe land attached to St Johns church in Stanmore.

It is because of the confusion relating to the ownership of the land originally owned by the Catholic Church, transferred to the status of a safe haven - "Liberty" by the abbot of St Albans Abbey, and then sub-let to various tenants until being obtained by the Anglican church, that the "Rotten Borough" was not included in the various pieces of legislation passed in the 19th century to remove the parliamentary status and the ability to post a member of parliament to Westminster.

Having obtained the knowledge that the opportunity exists to stand for parliament and extol his own brand of Brexit politics, Driver Chard immediately informed the  Prime Minister, the Speaker and Black Rod of his intention to hold a local election, so as to allow the forgotten constituency of Belmont Duck, and those associated with the land, to be represented at Westminster.

Driver Chard has enlisted a number of fellow members of the Duck Flat Cap Society to assist him in his grab for power, and has Ray the Dust his official spokesman and Jester. Barry the Gravedigger has been appointed his official physician and issued  "Letters Patent" granting him the exclusive right to supply bicycles and scooters for his executive team.

The ageing octogenarian potentate has advised his close team of supporters that upon obtaining his seat in the House Of Commons he will publish a series of Bills seeking to abolish the existing executive and appointing himself as the saviour of the post Brexit nation.

In particular he will issue a "Bill of Attainder" as  an act of legislature declaring the entire Parliament  guilty of Treason and punishing them without a trial. They will then be banished to France, Belgium and Poland for the rest of their existence as punishment for the lack of constructive Brexit action over the last 30 moons.

Despite being advised that such Bills were abolished in the UK in 1870, the clearly deluded Driver Chard insists that he will  be successful in his endeavours to proclaim himself as the post Brexit Potentate of the United Kingdom of Greater Britannia and Germania.

More will be published when Driver Chard is released from the mental Institution that is currently holding him on behalf of the Duck Flat Cap Societies "Political and Attainder" sub-division, chaired by the ex convict and dangerous Pygmy smuggler, Little Legs Parks.

R.I.P   JOHN CHARD 1933 - 2020