Never stop

I ventured into the world of Brexiteer Twitter yesterday, where facts are ignored or an inconvenience.

What do the remoaners never shut up about Brexit, there's a pandemic on, dontch know? Was one of the more common type of remarks.

I have news.

Contrary to what I may imply, Brexit is over.

The UK has left the EU and the articles and regulations no longer apply.

That is true.

What is up for discussion is the long term relationship we will have with the bloc.

The same people who delivered the referendum result, negotiated Brexit and are now trying to wriggle out of the consequences of the latter.

Take two exapmples:

REACH regulations. There is no actual benefit from the UK leaving the chemical regualtions of the EU (REACH) and setting up the UK's, or Britain and NI's own regulations, if they do not diverge from the EU's. It will be for the sake of political dogma.

It is the same for GDPR: the UK is now proposing our own, which will mean that UK user's data will be able to be harvested and sold.

But, in both standards, different areas, if a company, either UK or EU, wants to trade in both areas, will have to show compliance to both standards. Double the costs, and with no effect other than to increase costs, mainly for UK businesses and reducing choice for UK consumers, when those EU companies who do not want to comply with UK rules or can't afford to, opt out. And at the same time, doubling the costs and requirements for UK companies that want to have a presence in the EU.

It is madness, and will give EU companies an advantage as the UK GOvernment, in the name of sovereignty, imposes economic sanctions upon ourselves and sells of more of our, UK cotizen's rights to the highest bidder.

Meanwhile, UK companies are pressing for limited lossening of immigration rules to allow drivers, care workers and so on to enter and work here for a year at a time, while our freedom of movement will still be stopped.

Is this the Brexit you voted for?

I heard a fisherman complaining that this isn't the Brexit he voted for.

Well, it is the Brexit ohnson and Frost negotiated, and Johnson was elected on the back of implementing. So, if he voted for Johnson in 2019, it is the Brexit he voted for. Just not the one promised, but the very limits in the export of live shellfish the fisherman complained about, were the very rules the UK helped shape as a member state, before it left. And voted for.

You really could not make this shit up.