Brexit and beyond

One of the best, if not THE best Brexit commentator is Chris Grey, his posts, sometimes twice a week, have put into simple yet effective words the madness and duplicity we see all around us.

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/05/englands-dreaming.html Take his latest post:

"With apologies to those who have a fastidious objection to cliché, the sound of Brexit chickens coming home to roost and Brexit pennies dropping is now all but deafening. Thus the Daily Telegraph has belatedly worked out (£) that ending the right of freedom of movement of people does not just make it much harder for ‘them’ to come ‘here’ but also for would-be British ‘expats’ hoping to retire in the EU. Indeed the Express positively fulminates at the “new” laws “targeting” the British in Spain and “criminalizing” them for having the incorrect papers (silence, though, from the Brexiters on the disgusting treatment being meted out to EU national seeking to enter the UK). The Express has also just discovered that Brexit is having a serious adverse effect on UK financial services.

Yet with wearying inevitability, these and other realizations are unaccompanied by any understanding at all that they arise from the UK’s own choices. Instead, they are invariably ascribed to the hostility of the EU, or of its member states, and to some version of the ‘we’re being punished for Brexit’ narrative which has been in place almost since the day of the referendum result. There’s an invincible, obstinate wall which simply can’t be broken through and that is not surprising, for its bricks are the combination of bellicosity and victimhood that were so central to the vote to leave in the first place."

The fact that ending freedom of movement would always cut both ways, meaning that in order to not hear Polish on the 63 bus, you forfit your right to retire to Spain. I don't know, that don't seem too bringht if you ask me.

For five years the UK has demanded to be treated as a third country by the EU, and once they were treated as a third country, they complain about being punished, by the EU.

News has come this week of EU nationals with the right to remain in the UK, one even waiting for his UK passport after being granted citizenship, yet refised entry at the UK border by some immigration official not understanding the rules, and the UK refusing to supply any of them with paper documents, all proof being in electronic form only.

Almost it was designed to fail and make life as difficult and cruel as possible.

If UK citizens travelling to work in the EU had been thrown in jail for not having the right or a visa to work, there would be, rightly, and outcry. That it is happening, now, to EU citizens in the UK, and it not being reported widly is doubly shameful.

Because, like in the US, the cruelty is the point. Making people suffer is a by product of the policies. Unfair and cruel.