Happy Birthday, Brexit…not 
What a total shambles it turned out to be and those responsable still blaming others for their mess. It split my family against me and mine although several were too polite to say anything but others were real nasty and crowed because they had taken the country back and now all they do is winge and whine about how bad things are.
Ears and pigs spring to mind.
Explain?
Typical. Those with an isolationist outlook and think they can do better on their own now find that they were wrong.
It is even more important for us to work with Europe because of the actions of Russia and now Trump and his tariffs.
I caught the first 45 minutes of James O’Brien on LBC yesterday morning. Love him or loathe him, he’s been consistent in calling out Brexit since before the referendum.
He quoted some absolutely astonishing statistics… Only 11% of Brits think Brexit has gone well, and if you narrow it down to only include those who voted for Brexit then it’s only one in five who think it was more positive than negative.
Just 5 years since Boris Johnson “got Brexit done”, only 3 out of 10 people think the UK was right to leave the EU - a whopping 1 in 6 Leave voters have already changed their mind.
Here’s a YouTube link to the show…
And at some point weekend I shall watch this Arte program too…
To make a pig’s ear of something - complete shambles.
The problem is there was no Article 50 option for a trial separation, nor an easy route back to membership - especially when Labour remain determined to somehow make the magic unicorn poo rainbow coloured fertiliser on the UK economy.
Whatever happens in the future some of the damage will never be repaired.
I am thinking of family’s who no longer speak to each other and in my personal case taking Luxembourg Nationality when before Brexit I felt secure and safe living in the EU with only my British Nationality.
Also to my horror one of the evil group that promoted Brexit, I refer to Farage, is now considered for greater power.
Me too, one of the reasons I stopped the French nationality process was the need to gather 100 year old documents, supporting that was my absolute commitment to the EU and my pride in my EU citizenship. It never occurred to me that someone would come along and take that from me, with nothing I had done to deserve it and nothing I could do to stop it.
I had the necessary language certificate, but well out of date now, and I doubt at my age and level of confusion I could pass an English exam, let alone a French one.