I’m back to my original plan about picking a word that’s just popped in to my head and writing about it. That way I avoid going on about current affairs or creating a diary. So today’s word is confidence. Funny that – considering there was a vote of confidence in the government today.

The strange thing is that everyone observing this vote were confident that the official opposition would lose. In another world, perhaps one or two MPs could have been in hospital, or accidentally walk in to the wrong lobby by mistake when voting. But they wouldn’t and they didn’t. No blow of any force was landed, as the government mustered all of the votes they would be expected to get. It looks as if Mr Corbyn fell in to a predictable trap. He’s almost played all of his cards now.

Yesterday, Mrs May took a kicking in what can be described as political rope-a-dope. The opposition, and MPs on her side of the floor have punched themselves out, she isn’t even on the floor after all of the punches she’s been taking. And now, it’s time for some counter punches. The opposition have nothing, and now it’s time to counter punch. Now the leaders of the opposition parties have to tell her what they want. They don’t want the possibility of a no deal Brexit, but that was voted for as part of the Article 50 vote. Mr Corbyn wants this option to be taken off the table before he meets with the PM. He’s had over two years to come up with an idea of what he wants and he hasn’t. His plan is to go and ask his party members what they want. This leaves him in a bit of a corner. There’s no point in being involved in negotiations with the government because he has nothing to add, despite the party line of not being involved with any input in to the current Brexit negotiations. He needs to be in two positions at the same time, and at the moment he’s more than a little fuzzy.

At the same time, everyone is confident that the Brexit deal put forward by the PM cannot make it through a Parliamentary vote. But at some point, the PM must have been confident she could win a vote, surely she must have been confident. Or, at least she was confident that she wasn’t going anywhere. Everyone is learning as we go with the whole Brexit deal, and perhaps more study should have been compulsory before Article 50 was triggered. For example, what’s so bad about the Customs Union? And why are there people out there who are confident that falling back World Trade Organisation rules will be anything other than a sub-sub-sub-optimal outcome?

I really don’t want to be eating meat that has been grown using synthetic growth hormones, or chlorinated chicken. So, someone really has to stand-up tell some truths and become a national hero, because at the moment the weasels are running the show from the shadows.