Bong for Brexit

In an "interview" yesterday with BBC Breakfast, the PM said that maybe the public could bung a bob or two to get Big Ben to Bong for Brexit.

It will cost half a million quid to get the clock to bong on the 31st, and the Daily Express suggests in 72 pt type that it would be a national embarrassment if it doesn't.

That literal Nazis used to get church bells to ring to herald some new pogrom, now it seems that Britain should do the same.

If Brexit was so marvelous, then people would just go out and celebrate anyway, they wouldn't need to be summoned by pealing bells?

Its not enough, apparently, that a 3rd batch of 50 pence pieces (soon to be worth 40p) are to be minted for the occasion, but a high ranking Tory warned remainers not to sully the night of celebration and bonging.

So much for bringing the country together! Because nothing helps me losing the rights 45 years of EU membership have given me, along with the right to live, work and love in 27 other countries, than the sound of church bells.

So it goes, so it goes.

And you might like to know, I have been reading technical papers into how the Irish Border and NI border with Britain might work after Brexit?

Well, I have, and its not pretty, with good will on both sides, and bucketloads of trust on either side, it might be able to get it work with only some friction. Trust is something in short supply, especially as it was revealled yesterday that the UK failed to inform the EU about 75,000 criminals being sent back from UK.

Anyway, it turns out that sending good from Britain to NI, if the goods are staying inside NI, will be as it is now, but storage will have to be done in bonded warehouses where tariffs and/or tax will have to be paid. It all depends on how close the alignment between Britain and EU is.

I will use the terms UK to mean, England, Scotland, Wales and NI. But use Britain to define the UK without NI. This will be important in the months and years to come.

So where goods or ingredients or parts come from will be important, as to where the destination of the goods once they enter NI. Paperwork, taxes and tariffs will have to be completed and/or paid accordingly.

No matter what the PM says, this will be unavoidable.

In other news, the PM refused the SNP's demand for a further Indyref in Scotland. This was expected, but that the SNP have now won 5 elections on the bounce in Scotland, there is a clear mandate, especially as the promises of the 2014 one have been so badly broken now that England (and Wales) is going to drag Scotland out of the EU against its will.

Such a refusal will only strengthen the SNP's case and further weaken the Union. Such independence in the past has been on sectarian lines, but the economic reality might mean, as in Ireland, that will break down the old walls and barriers.

Brexit will take us out of one Union and destroy another. So that's far from taking back control. As is having to accept another trading bloc's rules and regulations, either the US, China of the EU, but that is the reality. More taking back control.