Sunday 26 August 2018

Holiday weekend Brexit

There are only so many ways to describe the shitshow that is Brexit, I mean it is stupid, dumb, stupid and will be hugely damaging to the country and relations with our nearest trading partners. As ever, even if it were to be ended today, the damage is there, for the sheer cost that the EU has spent and the effort put into preparing for Brexit. I am sure that most of the EU27 are now happy enough that the UK is leaving, and just want to get it over with now.

The MP for the 18th Century, JRM stated then asked how the issue of the Irish border should be dealt with in the event of a no deal, he said, with inspections as during the troubles. Thus failing to appreciate what the GFA has done for all of Ireland. In fact I am sure he knows this, just doesn't care, which goes back to my previous Brexit post, that these charlatans and snake oil salesmen need challenging on their statements, and this being shown to the country. And this show on all news shows.

But the charade goes on and on, and the right wing press just backs the lies up.

As ever, as to how this is all going to play out; who knows? Unless the real risks of Brexit are laid out in a factual way, and the huge benefits that being a member of the EU are explained, then what hope will there be? Only that post-Brexit, as a country we will learn in real time, as a country, all that the EU has done for us for a pittance, for the last 45 years. And then realise that rejoining cannot happen for a generation.

Make no mistake, the 29th March 2019 is a point at which things will never be the same again for UK, there will be no going back either to the EU or to the days when manufacturing and exports paid into the national exchequer, as a country we will learn that too.

And when we go on holiday, having to buy visas for EU countries, car insurance, international driving licences, travel insurance and roaming charges on our phones. Wait until the reader of the Daily Hate Mail find that out! But it will be the EU's fault of course.

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