Winners consent

There can be no arguments that the referendum in 2016 dekivered a non-binding result by 52-48% that the UK should leave the EU.

However, apart from non-bindding, the vote did not define what this actually meant.

Never did.

May decided in her Lancaster House speech in 2017 that leaving meant leaving the SM and CU.

That was her decision.

Johnson dud not change that definition.

May agreed the backstop in regards to NI.

Johnson agreed the frontstop, the opposite of May, meaning that we agreed applied from the start: a regulatory border in the Irish Sea.

Leaving could have meant just leaving the political institutions.

Or leaving just the SM and/or the CU.

The election in 2019 backed Johnson's Brexit deal.

However, at no point did Cameron, Johnson or May reach out and compromise to those 48% who voted to remain. It was their definition that was imposed on us all, 52% rounded up to 100% and 48% rounded down to 0%.

Neither did Johnson seek approval from the devolved institutions in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, as he should have.

So, the election in 2019 meant that the country agreed to implement Johnson's Brexit deal, NIP and all.

We who voted to remain we told that we lost we should get over it. And we did. Even if we're still angry about it. Fucking angry, more angry than I have ever been in my life. All I and those who voted remain is to get on with our lives, make the best of what we have.

Oddly, its the leavers. The Brexiteers who are trying to renegotiation Johnson's deal. Even Johnson was trying to.

"A New Brexit" was trending on what's left of Twitter this morning. It would be good if the twats who lied and were backed by dark mney to win the referendum actually just sucked it up and made the Brexit they wanted, work.

I mean, they won, get over it.

Johnson won the 2019 election on the promise that the talks and negotiations with the EU would stop if we voted for hom and his deal.

He lied.

Of course.

Can we just end this shit show now?

Work with what you got, let us and business have some stability and get on with our lives.

Make it stop.

P.S.

DAG wrote yesterday that one of the main issues with Brexit, apart from its rank stupidity, is that it was treated as a simple problem with simple solutions.

That the UK could untangle itself from five decades of joint legal and commercial arrangements and agreements at speed and with no risk.

This could be down to stupidity on the Brexiteers part, or that they just did not understand the problem.

The dog that caught the car: what then?

Brexit was never going to be simple, it needed a lot of time, a lot of thought and a lot of preparation. But the need for deadlines to satisfy either a political or media driven agenda was never going to end well.

The latest is that all retained EU law is to be made obsolete by the end of next year.

Simple.

But no one knows exactly how many retained EU laws there are, whether they are needed or not.

But it makes headline in conference and makes the editor of the Mail and Express happy, but what it means to us, business and the economy matters not a jot.

Scrutiny would help, that I, a humble blogger knows this, mean that I would hope journalists would be asking these qyestions and not accepting the non-answers they get given.