Why Brexit?

I thought I might take a few lines to explain why I blog about Brexit.

Well, Brexit is the largest single act of economic self-harm I can imagine. It defies logic, reason, and those who believe suffer no opposition, but will do anything to avoid an actual debate, resorting to nationalism in an attempt to silence the remoaners.

In truth, I will probably be OK. I work for a Danish company, travel will be difficult for a while, but my skill set now is in high demand, and through my employer, or self-employed I can work anywhere in the world doing this job. So, mortage will be paid, and as long as there is demand, I will be able to work. Our savings will suffer, affecting our pensions, but we have moved the risk to Europe rather than keeping our options in just Britain.

But in limiting opportunities for future generations, every aspect of what the Government is trying to do needs to be challenged. That is the biggest crime, and something our children and children's children will damn us for; how on earth did such a course of action be allowed to happen relatively unchallenged? The Conservative Party, the Labour Party, broadcasters, the media all have allowed the lies and untruths to go unchallenged, or allowed facts to be countered by lies, in the interest of balance.

Britain will be poorer, subdued, ugly and with much reduced influence. And as has happened already, we will turn on each other once there is no one else to blame.

I hate what my country has become, and fear what it will turn into once those sunlit uplands are full of unicorns and fairy tales like they always were. Reality will close in on Brexit, we will be trapped by it, as we already are, but reality will win out, there is no escaping it.

Even now as EU agencies are relocated, some Brexiteers are still claiming it will be a success. Maybe they even believe it. In the end, we will know what the truth is, because there is no escaping it.

Everything I have said about Britain not being able to stop or pause the A50 process is true, so that would be a gift of the EU27, but still the UK Parliament is arguing about getting a "meaningful" vote on the final deal, if there is one.

More rearranging deckchairs on the sinking Titanic.

And the Labour Party is next to useless, as given the opportunity of getting an amendment to the Brexit bill forcing the Government to ensure Britain stayed in the Single Market, the Labour front bench whipped the party into abstaining. Worse than useless.

Today, another spanner in the works, as Ireland said that there has to be a viable solution to the border with NI or there will be no talks on trade.

Brexit means Brexit.