Final Brexit post.

Unless either the UK Parlament or the EU fails to ratify the trade agreement, economic Brexit will happen on the 31st just before midninght.

If they don't there will be no deal and even greater chaos.

I have written about Brexit since the day of the referendum result, sometimes as many as half a dozen posts a day. I have read, understood and able to challenge the lies that have poisoned the debate about our relationship with the EU.

In the forthcoming weeks and months, there might be a lot of "I told you so moments", or there might not, it might be worse, or better than expected.

I don't know, no one does.

The queues at Dover and through Kent this week shows what might have happened, now I think it is reasonable to say not so many drivers and hauliers will risk being stuck here come January 1st, so there might not be jams, but there could be food shortages.

Or there might not.

I will never forget the lies and spin that flushed out of Downing Street and in the media, it has made it impossible for any of us to make a judgement based on understanding the consequences, in fact being told there would be no negative ones, just huge positive ones.

Just about every promise made by the official Leave campaign, Vote Leave, has crumbled to ashes or revealed to be the lies some of us suspected they were.

There will not be less red tape, there will be more.

Much in life will be a little bit difficult, from travelling, to buying things off the internet to the rights we have as citizens and workers. As a country we have lost, and will lose more, influence and say in the way the word works. We had enormous soft power, but gambled it on an imaginary hard power that died decades ago.

We will have years to reflect on what we lost, and cannot reclaim. Many who voted to leave, knew it was wrong, but did it any way. Many who saw what Johnson was voted in huge numbers for him to be returned as PM last December.

His prize will be to try to keep his party and the Union of the United Kingdom together. For what its worth, I don't think he can do either, but I have been proven wrong on Brexit before.

We cannot change what is to come, and have to rely on those who fucked up Brexit so badly to make whatever comes afterwards work.

God help us all.