End of another week in Brexitlalaland

When, in either weeks, month, years or decades time, people, maybe a commission looks back at the clusterfuck omnishambles that is Brexit, blame will start to be apportioned.

Let me say right here and now, the blame is with Parliament, in particular with the House of Commons, who, at every step were cowed into nodding along and blindly voting through the various parts of legislation that made Brexit inevitable.

In particular, the A50 notice, because at that point, Brexit became subject to EU and international law, and not UK domestic law. I pointed out at the time the stupidity of starting a process without knowing if or how it could be stopped. MPs cheers and waved papers as May made the statement that the notification was sent, where are those cheers now? Had they have done their job properly, they would have discovered there was no plan, no position on what, at the most basic of levels, Brexit was or what the Government thought it was.

Even to have that got, Gina Miller and through people like me who crowdfunded the people’s challenge, made sure MPs got a vote on A50, that they pissed it into the wind was their own fault, and we will suffer the consequences for decades.

To use the Titanic analogy, it would have bene better to change course when the Brexit iceberg was first sighted, not now that it is mere feet from HMS UK.

Through this time we have bene told that Labour under Corbyn has been playing the “long game”, however, sacking front line shadow ministers when they voted with their conscience on Brexit is not a good look, and even now Corbyn says Brexit cannot be stopped. |Or it can, but the vote has to be honoured.

So, the country is sleepwalking into a no deal Brexit, where if only a thing where trade is affected would be bad enough, but all areas of life in UK will be plunged into uncertainty. But, of course, as the Brexiteers bray, this is mere “project fear 2.0”, and there is nothing to fear. So say those who have houses in France, moved their investment funds to Ireland or obtained German passports for their children. Yes, I’m sure they’re right, nothing to worry about, we shall jolly well muddle through, have that wartime spirit, though after 20 years of eating rats and grass, I’m sure that will tire.

The BBC have take to getting, either by accident or design, actors to fill in as talking heads in supporting Brexit. I mean, I don’t care what a fake vicar says, what really matters is what experts tell us will happen. I wrote a blog many years ago “let idiot speak unto idiot” bemoaning the fact the BBC seems to do very little other than have the public speak about things they know nothing about.

I means that’s all very well, but where we’re talking about the economic future for the country for the next few decades, shouldn’t we be making these decisions via some fact based thinking?

I think, in the end, Brexit will happen, and we deserve it, as a country, to teach us a lesson not to be so insular, stupid, xenophobic, but it will be a very expensive lesson, one which future generations will be paying for, is that what we want to happen? Because we think we know best when it is clear we don’t? The rest of the world thinks we have gone mad, America dies, but then it voted for Trump. Albeit with some help from Russia, and it is clear now to thanks to the work of the Guardian and Observer that the same channels of money and disinformation that got Trump elected helped Brexit win too.