Back to Brexit

Yesterday, the MP for Dover, Charlie Elphicke, called on the Government to do more about immigrants trying to cross the Channel after some 42 were picked up over the Christmas period. Thing is, this kind of immigration, or attempted immigration, will be unaffected by Brexit. Indeed, in the worse case of breakdown in relations between UK and France, such immigration might be facilitated, transferring the problem from Nord de Pas de Calais to Kent. That would mean violating international treaties, but then failing to pay a bloc what you owe is also doing that.

I have seen with my own eyes, the desperate immigrants in France, living in the central reservations of the motorway, or wandering around the industrial areas of Calais looking for an insecure truck to stow away in.

I guess my point being, some say it won't happen, but then lots of things that we were told would not happen, have happened.

In an interview on NZ TV, Robert Patman, recounts in clear language the problems with the referendum: illegal overspending, broken voting laws, unaccountable £8 in funding, Russian interference. A clear threat to liberal democracies all around the world. But when asked why May has not tackled these issues as a way to delegitimise Brexit, the simple fact that, politically, she gained the most from Brexit; she became Prime Minister becasue of it, and needs to push it forward to remain in power, no matter what it does to the country. And she is doing just that.

Today is the 27th December, meaning that in three months and two days, Brexit is going to happen, as a simple fact of International law. The ratification process has not started in the EU, and in the UK many are trying to unpick was has already been agreed.

You thought 2018 was mad, you really have seen nothing yet.