Sunday, 26 April 2026

The beginning of the end of Brexit

Ah, Mr Brexit. It's been a while.

Let me start by saying that the EU will not allow the UK to rejoin unless there is a political consensus by the two major plitical parties in the UK. Larbour and the Conservatives, something that would give stability.

After having the UK as a troublesome member state, then go through Brexit, they wouldn't want to go through it all again.

And there will be no optouts.

But there is movement by the current Government to have coloser relations with the EU, even if that stops at anything meaningful.

But the reality is, with the Orange Shitgibbon in the Whitehouse, there can be no stability with the USA, and every tantrum threatens tariffs, so it makes sense to trade with those closer to us. Odd then that it is the US that will drive the UK back into the arms of the EU.

Of course, Nigel Farage will complain its a betrayal of Brexit and the referendum. But elections trump (ahem) refendums, and the Brexit that was negotiated at speed by Johnson has revealed its faults.

And as said on numerous occasions, Brexit was a process not an event.

We may have left the EU, but negotiations will go on forever, as standards in the UK and EU change, and there has to be processes to deal with it. Even if the UK doesn't change, the EU does, to non-compliance occurs by drift and inaction.

There is no appetite in the UK to politically litigate Brexit again, not the whole nation. Even numbers of people crossing the Channel by boats has halved in the last year, so the Brexiteers now turn their blame gun on those on benefits.

Its always someone's fault, but never theirs.

Farage backed Johnson's Brexit deal to the extent he stood down every one of his MPs in places where the Tories were expected to win, to ensure a landslide for Johnson.

A return to the EU is a generation away, no matter what some people and groups might say.

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