Five years

Five years today, the UK voted to leave the EU.

Vote Leave and Leave.EU won after much proven lawbreaking. That the referendum was advisary rather than a mandate result meant that the result wasn't annulled.

In response, this week Johnson announced plans to remove many powers of the Electoral Commission.

Almost all promises made in the campaign by the various Leave campaigns have been broken.

Rather than save the UK £350 million a week, it has costed the UK £800 million.

It has broken the UK single market in that NI is in the EU SM for goods.

And Johnson's (an May's) chosen form of Brexit was the hardest next to no deal. But even now they refuse to accept the consequences of their decision. Leaving the EU SW and CU means there has to be a border, just a case of where.

In chosing control ofver trade, the UK will have lots of the former, but much less of the latter. Something I learned in the weeks following the vote. If I could get this through my thick head, why can't Brexiteers?

The UK's position on the world stage is diminished, and will be even smaller if and when the UK follows through on its repeated threats to break an international treaty or two.

Promises were broken to UK nationals living in the EU and EU nationals living in the UK that Brexit would not change their status. It has, for the much worse, especially for those from the EU living here, they have to apply for settled status by the end of this month, and for that they will not receive documented evidence of their right. Families will be split up, and there will be much pain for them.

All because some people didn't like to hear Polish on the bus.

I have accepted Brexit as it is a reality. But I will never embrace it.

Brexit rounded up 52% to 100% and rounded down 48% to zero. There has been no reaching out, no compromise, just suck it up, losers.

Any Goverment compedent to deliver Brexit, wouldn't.