The Half Brexit

Thursday sees the midway point in the A50 process, and as things get ever more real, just a reminder as to why I am so opposed to Brexit.

I love my country.

I love its people.

I don't want to see it come to any harm.

I want the country to be stronger and better for generations to follow.

That Brexit will make the country poorer, devastate industry, weaken UK's influence across the globe, cut is off from our neighbours, make travel harder for Brits, deny our children and their children the right to live, work, study in one of 27 other countries.

And that the referendum was won on lies. And when facts or questions were raised, these were dismissed as "project fear". And project fear becomes project reality, it is funny, but in a tragic way, to see the Brexiteers come to term with reality.

British citizens living in the EU were assured nothing would change for them, and their rights would be protected by the Vienna Convention. Boris Johnson said this, and he is now the Foreign Secretary, this is not the case, and never was. But then who reads treaties and conventions? Not Brexiteers certainly.

Families with one parent being from the UK and the other being from the EU runs the risk if one were to accept a work post overseas not being able to return to the UK if they wanted. I don't remember saying we would be spitting up families, or that in doing so would be a good thing.

I will not lay down and accept a fraudulent vote won on lies by a tax avoiding establishment that will think nothing of promising the undeliverable to those who cannot afford to lose anything. As things get ever more difficult for May and the Brexiteers and they complain about how the EU does not offer solutions, I just say, you won, get over it, as surely thay had a plan. Although clearly they had no plan. Still don't. And the rest of us will pay the price for that for many, many years.

I have no idea what is going to happen in the next 6 months, but it will be both entertaining and frightening as the Brexiteers will throw anything onto the pyre to make Brexit happen; your rights, my rights, the Union, the economy.

It seems the Government are prioritising the fishing industry (0-05% of the economy) over that of financial services (13% of the economy). Or to put in simple terms, a father earning £66k a year deciding to give that up in order to live on his son's £5 a day paper round money. It is madness on stilts, clearly. But while the BBC don't challenge the madness, the madness get accepted.