Today I had two sets of classes: one with my first Spanish teacher and a second with a different one I am trying out this week. It’s not been the most successful run thus far, but I think the second teacher will do for my time in Puerto Viejo. I was extraordinarily lucky, I think, with my teachers in Oaxaca and Medellin.
Extraordinary scenes in Parliament today as it was prorogued, Boris suffered his sixth defeat of six bills (exceeding the total for both Blair and Brown), Dominic Grieve seems to have given a remarkable Humble Address, the Speaker announced he is stepping down, and Jacob Rees-Mogg tried to trip him on the way out. Much more as well, but these are the ones that stick in my memory. Bercow really will go down in history, and the Tory rebels should as well, though I daresay they won’t.
It is curious to see the buzzwords that are used by Brexiteers, repeated again and again in a way that makes me think it must reflect the media narratives. Actually, not just Brexiteers, there are whole languages here. The Brexiteers, of course ‘just want to get Brexit done’, every single vox populi has that phrase. Everyone is terribly bothered that queen might be ‘dragged in’ or that she might ‘get involved’ — apparently shorthand for a genuine constitutional crisis. The journalists love ‘extraordinary scenes’.