Failing the Iron Maiden test

Bruce Dickenson, the onetime lead "singer" in Samson and Iron Maiden, and Brexit voter, was on TV yesterday complaining about the effects his vote and those of others who voted for Brexit was having on the entertainment and arts industries.

This didn't mean he accepted that his vote was partly responsible, just that David Frost should do something about it.

The EU has offered 90 day visa free travel for artists, and other such people, might even extend to all UK citizens, but of course that would mean the UK accepting the same conditions for EU artists and nationals coming here. And that is "not compatible with Brexit", apparently.

Though no one voted for a particular form of Brexit, but this is the form that May and Johnson chose, and are continuing to push, with the effect that it will kill off the creative arts. Not just rock and pop singers, but artists in general, musicians in orchestras, sportsmen and women all because the aim, in the end was to end freedom of movement at any cost, including all of the creative industries.

This is just one area where political dogma is going to affect many lives and livlihoods. In the end, is it worth it? No, not at all, but will political dogma change? in time.

Latest statistics show that support for the EU is growing in teens and twenties, and if that support holds up as they grow older, and the realisation that once again the older parts of society have pulled the ladder up to deny them a benefit, then the backlash may yet come. And the cost of this and Brexit in general will, in time, come to pensions. The triple-lock gold standard pension that readers of the Mail and Express treasure. Money will run out, in the end, even for that.

What if the choice is, and will be, helping the sick, infirm, disabled, poor or unemployed, or they keep their pension?

Many will choose pensions, but this is a social contract, why should the young carry on supporting the old if they have been shat upon for the last 12 years since the Tories came to power? The removal of the benefits of society from the young and healthy lieke the right to work in the EU, benefts, BBC3 and so on while forcing on them a life of debt through further education costs will bring the house of cards down.