From the outside, looking in

Wherever in the world you read my words, I hope that if you like outside UK my posts will bring some understanding as to where and how things are going in this once highly respected country.

I hope that you see a country that has lost its mind, ignores fact, and brands those who are not Brexit evangelists as traitors or worse.

There is no rational debate here, anyone railing against Brexit must battle against the "will of the people" line. Then "talking down the country".

In normal times, a major political party pursuing a policy that will cause great harm to business and the economy and general would be called out by the press and those who care for the country and those who live in it. But these are not normal times, there is no debate, facts are ignored or dismissed as irrelevant, and the call is for harder, faster Brexit. Breaking all international treaties and agreements we are part of, and signed when we were a country of our word.

Nothing is really said of how the rest of the world sees Brexit, unless it is the 75 year old man baby currently occupying 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue saying he'll do a great deal with the UK.

Putting our economic future into the hands of Trump should alarm everyone, as he is someone who can't keep his word on anything. The art of the deal is always to break the deal to drive better terms from the other side.

Don't way you were not warned.

The BBC hosts shows and interviews with the leading Brexiteers and their reporters either support Brexit, apparently, or do not have the understanding in how trade and economics work to enable the lies to be pinned down.

But instead the fog of lies, half truths and waffle wins the day, every day.

The Brexiteers don't stand a chance, not with the EU nor with any other country in trade negotiations, as they think we should have a deal that is beneficial to the UK because we speak English or some other suck load of tosh. As for the EU; Either there will be trade borders on the NO?irish Border or between Ireland and Britain. Either way will be a disaster for Britain, and will end the Government. One of those WILL happen, as May's red lines and the Brexiteers and DUP's stance make it obvious, as obvious as their foot on the accelerator pushing the UK economy towards the cliff edge.

That cliff edge is coming either on March 30th next year, or January 1st 2021. Sooner or later the day of reckoning, the day when the Brexit hangover will kick in, and as a country we look at our xenophobic red eyes in the bathroom mirror and realise what we have done. To ourselves.

And we did this to ourselves. We were told what would happen, but did not choose to listen.