Why Brexit

Brexit was never about Brexit.

I think.

I have written about this on and off for several years, and this week's progress of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act has seen the Home Secretary insert 18 pages of hardline illiberal provisions, extending the right of stop and search to all, and taking away freedoms to travel and assembly meerly on a suspicion.

This was done after passage through the Lords, to to restrict any kind of deabte about what was added.

So, what we can see now, is having left the EU, our rights are now being taken away while the checks and balances on the Executive are also being removed.

The Government would rather we fixate of a migrant "crisis", so they can go about grabbing all the power they can, sidelining Parliament, the Legal System and with a pliant media, just rule, like Henry VIII would.

By the time we realise this, it will be too late, we are sleepwalking into an elected despotic state, and as Johnson's powers wane along with his popularity, thoughts turn to who would replace him. Someone more of a hardline Brexiteer, or like Patel, someone only too happy to remove any remaining right, we the population might have.

All this and going into a winter where there is very likely to be an energy crisis, food shortages, and shortages of materials for our remaining industries to eb able to function.

And on top of this, COVID is to return, with a variant 500 times as transmissible and with many more mutations, which we have yet to dicover what they will enable the pandemic to do.

It feels very, very worrying. And with little or no hope.