24 June 2016
Today I realise:
We hold an early morning teleconference, the other officers and Mr Davies and Mr Lampert and I. Mr Lampert has prepared a shouty thing called a press release, with CIPA’s official response to the Brexit vote. It is a tad more restrained than my own response to the Brexit vote. We help Mr Lampert to make it more accurate, and more comprehensive. We continue this process throughout a lengthy subsequent email conversation. Eventually Mr Lampert is allowed to publish the shouty thing, following which the rest of the membership take up the baton and help him to make it even more accurate and comprehensive. By the time the official CIPA position on Brexit has reached all its intended audiences, even my local charity shop will have published a FAQ booklet. The Pee decides we must hold a Special Council Meeting next week, to talk some more about Brexit. I suspect this will be a miserable and bad-tempered affair, but Council has to be given sufficient opportunity to be miserable and bad-tempered when important things happen, otherwise people become, well, miserable and bad-tempered. There is also an urgent need to clarify exactly what is meant, in the CIPA shouty document, by “at least two years”. There are already dark mumblings to the effect that this figure might be insufficiently precise, or worse, inaccurate, or that it might be only partially accurate in which case we should include a caveat explaining the extent to which it is accurate. I do not think Mr Lampert is looking forward to the Special Council Meeting. After the Special Council Meeting, we are going to ask Mr Lampert to ring the national media, to provide a more accurate and comprehensive summary of the official CIPA position on What We Don’t Know About Brexit Yet. No, he is definitely not looking forward to it. Mr Davies, meanwhile, having just about resigned himself to the word “Brexit” despite its ugliness, is now wishing he hadn’t. He wasn’t expecting to have to use it quite this much.
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