Election and Brexit news

It has been a month since I last wrote about Brexit, and the PM had just called an unnecessary election, in order to, well, she says strengthen her negotiating hand in the Brexit talks that begin the week after the election. Then uses the excuse she is too busy revising for Brexit talks to be bothered with things like engaging with voters or taking part in debates with other politicians. Well, with the fixed term parliament act, there was no need to call the election, and if it was too much for you, then maybe an election was a bad idea?

That it won't matter a jot who is in charge of the country to the EU27 when the negotiations begin, they will offer us something, and we as a country, or the Government will either accept that or Britain will leave without a deal. Quite what Britain has to negotiate with now that their only trump car; when the Article 50 notification was sent, has now been played.

Brexit has strengthened unity within the EU27, which otherwise would not have happened, and recent economic data not only shows the EU performing better than Britain, but Britain is at the bottom of G7 countries in economic performance. Experts eh?

Seven years of austerity have not only failed to reduce the national debt, but managed to increase it by 50%, at the same time making the lives of hundreds of thousands of unemployed, disabled, sick, elderly people miserable. And the choice is more of the same. Austerity also affects things like funding for the police and Armed Forces, and in the last two weeks there have been two terrorist attacks in the UK, one in Manchester and on in London, and funding for the police, and their numbers have fallen by 20%. That there is no link between funding, numbers and attacks is laughable. Or would be if people had not lost their lives in these attacks.

Despite having the most useless of leaders, Labour is closing the gap in the polls, now just 5% behind. Polls have been wrong before, of course, but judging by the amount of smearing down by Fleet Street on May's behalf is astonishing. That he once met with IRA Leaders, as did members of the British Government at the time, and says that war in the Middle East was a bad idea.

Mrs. May was Home Secretary from 210 until she was made an unelected PM, that failures in keeping radicals monitored, lower numbers of police, reduced funding for the police and other security services, the useless immigration billboard trucks were all done when she was Home Secretary, and now she wants us to trust her to do more of the same?

A lot of what is happening with Brexit there were warnings about, and ignored by the Brexiteers. Latest is that farmers now realise their industry is at risk; who knew? Well, most people apart from the farmers it seems. I will put another bag of popcorn in the microwave and watch the chaos unfold. Brexit and election and then negotiations. It won't be dull, that's for sure.