Hi, I’m Apple…
…and I’m Ginger.
And last week we began ‘Frost Over May’ from ‘The Greatest Show Not On Earth’ where we focused on Brexit. Now we continue and move onto foreign policy.
“Hello, Good Afternoon and Welcome Back. My guest today is probably Britain’s most unpopular Prime Minister since the job was invented after Charles I had his head cut off!”
“Well, I don’t think I can be as unpopular as him, then.”
“I was factoring in Britain getting rid of capital punishment into my statement.”
“Well, I’m not in a popularity stakes.”
“Prime Minister, I pray a great deal for my country and the world. You claim to have faith. Do you?
“Well, I not only claim to have faith, I do have faith and I have faith in delivering an orderly Brexit.”
“But do you have faith in God?”
“Yes, I do have faith in God and I was brought up a vicar’s daughter.”
“Prime Minister, do you think God has faith in you?”
“Well that is a matter for God and only God can answer that question.”
“You attend a Christian church every Sunday, don’t you?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Because you are a Christian.”
“I was brought up a vicar’s daughter.”
“I’ll take that as yes, then. In fact, you were very concerned about the destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral, weren’t you?”
“Yes, I was. I think we all were.”
“But no-one died.”
“No.”
“And yet 300 Christians died in terrorist attacks in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka and you called them ‘Easter Worshippers.’ ”
“Well, it was Easter Sunday.”
“And they were all murdered because they were Christians.”
“It was a popular place for tourists from all over the world.”
“Tourists who were celebrating as Christians.”
“Easter worshippers.”
“Are you ashamed of the gospel of Christ, Prime Minister? People of other faiths get killed and you name the faith. Why not Christians too?”
“Some of them might not have been Christians.”
“Prime Minister, as a vicar’s son myself, I find that offensive to their memory and cowardly.”
“Well, it was Easter and they were worshipping.”
“What about your recent deal with China? Was that cowardly too?”
“A firm decision has not been made yet.”
“I put it to you, Prime Minister, that Gavin Williamson, as your Defence Secretary, in agreement with his opposite numbers in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, at the Five Eyes, told you it was wrong and in a fit of rage you invented a leak in order to have an excuse to fire him.”
“I was not responsible for that leak.”
“Then why not have an open inquiry about it?”
“I have drawn a line under that matter.”
“Have you drawn a line under Salisbury as well?”
“That was the Kremlin.”
“Where’s the proof, Prime Minster? Why has the press no access to the Skripals? Are they in The Village, Prime Minster? Do you fantasize that you’re No. 2?”
“I have drawn a line under that matter too.”
“These questions won’t go away. People are not only questioning your judgement, Prime Minister, they are questioning your mental state, your fitness for office. Why don’t you make your health files open to public scrutiny? Have you drawn a line under your health as well?”
“There is no line to draw.”
“Our time is up, Prime Minister, alas, but I put it to you, in closing, that your deal is dead and your time in 10 Downing Street with it. Your country is saying to you now, ‘grieve and leave’ and, if you don’t, I think you are going to regret it for the rest of your life. That’s all we’ve got time for, I’m afraid. What can I say? Too many questions still needing answers. Goodnight!”
And it’s time for us to go too.
See you next Tuesday.
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