Two and a half years spent in finding out that the E.U. were never going to give us a deal which would be acceptable to the people who voted to leave, and the rest of the world would exploit the country's weakness when it comes to trade deals and exports.
Big businesses like Rolls Royce have to know what they are doing when they begin to stockpile parts in case of log-jamming at the docks, and the European-based food manufacturers here in the U.K. are also stock-piling ingredients so that we can continue to buy Dutch Marmite and Dutch H.P. Sauce.
Theresa May will probably survive right up until we either crash out or sign contracts tying us to trade agreements formulated by the E.U. which severely restrict our freedom to barter with other countries on our own terms. Nobody seriously wants her job because nobody could do it any better than her. It would be impossible. She is a sacrificial goat.
I would have thought that a second referendum could be justified solely on the grounds that the Leave voters will end up with the exact opposite of what they thought they were voting for, but paying an extra £39 billion to get it.
We are scuppered whatever happens. If we change our minds and remain, we will have lost all respect from the rest of the world for the foreseeable future, thanks to the personal ambition of two male politicians.
How the Once Mighty have fallen... all due to personal greed, ignorance, intolerance.
ReplyDeleteWhat respect can you now expect from the worlds nations when it was the UK electorate that Shot Themselves in the foot.
I am not gloating though, for actually am saddened that this awful mess was allowed to come about when the future could have been so much brighter.
Got a passport?
DeleteAs I have just said in reply to Heron on my blog, I don't think this country has pulled together for decades. This is the climax of it.
ReplyDeleteWho or what would you ultimately blame for this social division?
DeleteFind a darkened room, open a bottle of single malt, and wait till the clouds have passed. It may take 10 years or more.
ReplyDeleteI've been doing that for 40 years and look where it has brought me.
DeleteThe world may become worse before it improves. I give you mine, for an example. In the meantime, the great majority of the people carry on properly, and eventually life becomes right again. Or, we get old and die and it's up to the next generation to fashion the world the way we wanted it. Or, the way they want it. I wonder if it's all a crap shoot.
ReplyDeleteIt's all crap, that's all I know.
DeleteI have given up on everything to do with the EU and our leaving via Brexit. But what I would say is that I am amazed that Teresa May keeps going, keeps cheerful and even makes a joke (about George) at her Press Conference.
ReplyDeleteNobody wants her job right now. Not even Michael Gove.
DeleteI am absolutely mystified by this whole Brexit thing and the fact that everything has turned out exactly the way no one wanted it to. What a mess.
ReplyDeleteUnderstatement of the decade I think!
DeleteWell it will be interesting to read the history books 50 years hence!
ReplyDelete'May you live in interesting times'. Old Chinese curse.
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