{"id":20513,"date":"2016-11-28T00:36:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20513"},"modified":"2016-11-28T00:36:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T00:36:31","slug":"brexit-bullst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20513","title":{"rendered":"Brexit Bulls**t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written much about Brexit recently \u2013 if I did, I\u2019d be at my keyboard permanently. However, one particular story today has prompted me to start writing about it again.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 699px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 699\/468;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Derek Norman - serial vandal and criminal\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/derek_norman.jpg\" alt=\"Derek Norman - serial vandal and criminal\" width=\"699\" height=\"468\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Staunch Brexiteer Derek Norman's metric campaign is a Brexit sign of the times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/dereks-metric-campaign-brexit-sign-12223781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story concerns an aged halfwit called Derek Norman<\/a>. This unholy specimen is 82 years old, and he is apparently a \u201cstaunch Brexiteer\u201d. It seems that he is guilty of extensive acts of criminal damage around the country, since it is his self-appointed vocation in life to go around removing any road signs which have metric values on them. He proudly boasts to have removed 2,000 signs \u2013 that\u2019s 2,000 examples of absolute, outright criminal behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Most people his age would content themselves with hiding behind the curtains ready to run out and claim ownership of a particular corner if a learner showed up there. But this man is special.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a while back \u2013 shortly after the Referendum \u2013 that it wouldn\u2019t be long before some prat started trying to bring back Imperial measurements. I was proved right when <a title=\"I Told You It\u2019d Happen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warwick Cairns formed some jackass movement for precisely that purpose<\/a>. Senior Citizen Norman has taken things a step further by committing acts of vandalism to effect the changes himself. It is also worth pointing out that he\u2019s a UKIP activist, which means that his thinking is far from normal. As a small digression, it speaks volumes about his likely opinion and attitude regarding other Brexit propaganda, such as towards people whose lineage isn\u2019t confined to this sceptr\u2019d isle. You don\u2019t join UKIP with the Party line anymore than someone in the American Deep South joins the Ku Klux Clan in order to promote racial tolerance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Norman said: \u201cWe have what we call spotters all over the country who tell us about the signs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accurately translated, what he means is there are plenty of like-minded twats all over the place who look up to him and egg him on to commit further criminal acts.<\/p>\n<p>He should be locked up until such time as he can be handed over to the British Natural History Museum and stored in a back room with all the other fossils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written much about Brexit recently \u2013 if I did, I\u2019d be at my keyboard permanently. However, one particular story today has prompted me to start writing about it again. The story concerns an aged halfwit called Derek Norman. This unholy specimen is 82 years old, and he is apparently a \u201cstaunch Brexiteer\u201d. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}