Brexit reality

If there is just one thing that brings home the sheer stupidity of Brexit, it is the ending of free movement. When it was ended last month, the PM and Home Secretary crowed about it, the Home Hoffice posted celebration videos.

Gammons cheered.

But, readers, there's more.

The ending of freedom of movement goes both ways, as it was always going to, and yesterfay the Sunday Torygraph and today's Daily Hate Mail leadw with news that UK citizens who have holiday homes or who have retired to anywhere in the EU, will be limted from staying in their own houses, homes, for three months out of every six.

Just like citizens of any other third country.

A rule change they both shout, but the reality is, dear reader, this is a consequence of Brexit. Ending free movement of EU citizns to the UK also limits your, ours, in the EU.

Who'd have thought it? Well, me for one.

"Furious ex-pats blast EU's post-Brexit travel rules which will ban them from spending more than three months at a time at their holiday home from January."

What did they really think would happen?

I would laugh, but Jools and I would like to retire to an old French farm to grow old and grow vegetables. We can't now. Not until the UK sees sense and allows free movement, so the EU would do the same. Its not just the rich who want to retire to the sun, why not us? We have both worked for nearly 40 years, paid our taxes, paid our bills, and so on and on, so why shouldn't we be able to?

Because some red-faced gammon doesn't like to hear Polish on the bus. That's why. It'll help wreck the economy, because most who voted Brexit won't go to farms next spring to pick fruit and vegetables instead of the young from the EU. Nor will they retrain to become care workers. Not enough money in either, really.

What a sad little country we have become, and maybe one day, we will think about the consequences of our actions BEFORE we take them, not years after.

That's be nice.