Jeremy Corbyn has a lot of cheek

This guy Jeremy Corbyn was last week plottng to jump into a taxi and go and persuade the Queen to let him form a government. Now, after that was ridiculed, he has come up with a scheme to be caretaker prime minister of a national government. The Great Unifier! Ho ho ho. I love the bit where he promised to be caretaker prime minister for only a short time before calling a general election. But what if he changed his mind?! All this was in a letter to opposition parties and to rebel anti-leave Tories who might like Corbyn's further pledge to campaign in the proposed election for a second referendum on the EU. Well there have been some guffaws, particularly from the Liberal Democrats who don't want to leave the EU but want nothng to do with Corbyn as prime minister, caretaker or otherwise. But Corbyn's suggestion of a national unity government has stirred up all kinds of different views about which individual might actually be seen as a national unifier. One name put forward was Kenneth Clarke, former Tory Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Justice Secretary and Education Secretary and general good egg. He's a great guy but for heaven's sake he is 79 and an old buffer. I sat opposite him on the Tube (Metro) a few years back and he looked like someone out of a Charles Dickens novel. Another name was Harriet Harman, ex deputy Labour leader. But like Theesa May, very headmistressy. Not a unifier. I can't really think of anyone who would be so popular with everyone that he or she would unite the country. It's all somewhat hypothetical anyway since Boris has every intention of staying in power come what may. But to go back to the original script laid out by Corbyn, he thinks he can unify the country more than anyone else. He really does live in a strange world. He has prevaricated so much and for so long about the EU I still don't really know what he wants. He has been persuaded that a second referendum is a vote winner for the Labour party. But I doubt that. It will just divide the country even more. He has always been sceptical about the EU and is only cbanging his spots now because he has Number 10 in his sights, or thinks he does. So having promoted two ideas for saving the country from Boris and a no-deal Brexit and having failed to raise any support what will be his third grand scheme? You can be sure he has one developing right now.