Brexit - am I stupid or what?

Oh, God, that means an even bigger bill added to the original UK bill.

 

You were leaving???

 

I read that they were thinking of cutting Kent off and floating it across the Channel so that it can still be in Europe.

 

I think that would be a very cruel thing to do..................................to Europe.

 

I am not surprised in the least - the only certainty is that no matter the situation, our government will make a right mess of it.

As I see it, Cameron called for the vote to make himself look more 'in touch' and 'with it'; he, and the majority of the eejits in Westminster thought that the little people would behave themselves and vote the way they wanted them to vote, which was to stay in the EU, on the gravy train and everything would be just dandy.

Only, the little people were pee'd off with immigration levels being so high that there was not enough housing stock, schools or NHS capacity to cope, and the Tories did what they do best, cut services all over the place whilst taking more money off the electorate for the pleasure. As a result, a lot of the little people decided to send a bit of a message, and voted to leave the EU.

Upon the result, Cameron hadn't a clue what to do, and realised that he had properly 'dropped a clog' which was likely to see all his mates suffering when they had to take their snouts out of the EU trough.......... so he did what all politicians do when it goes wrong, and resigned to leave someone else to try and do something with the mess left behind.

Meanwhile, in the EU, all of their elected elite decided to take the huff, and to make it as hard as possible for the UK to leave the EU, seemingly thinking that this would cause us to go back with our tail between our legs and ask to call the whole Brexit thing off.

Michael Gove showed his true colours when he knifed Boris Johnson in plain sight, which then left us with the fart in trance better known as Theresa May for PM. Before she could form a government, she had to pay a small fortune to the DUP to gain their support (essentially buying their votes in my opinion, and I still don't know how she got away with it!). She formed a cabinet, the majority of which were still of the mind that we shouldn't be leaving the EU, mostly because they wanted to keep their snouts in the trough.

The elected politicians faffed about for month after month, with the elite in the EU determined to make the UK suffer for daring to leave, and because most of our political elite wanted to stay in the EU they didn't have the balls to stand up to the likes of Junker and to start dictating our terms.

Roll forward to now, and those politicians have had a 'oh shhhh.....' moment, when they realised that the date we are due to leave is fast looming, and they had essentially faffed about so much that no plans were in place. In a panic, May decided to go with one particular option that doesn't seem to fit with the spirit of Brexit (at least it currently seems this way going by the reaction it has had); she took the cabinet into Chequers on Friday and dictated to them what they were going to do, disregarding the objections and opinions of almost all of her cabinet (even those who are currently saying they stand with her have said that they disagree with it) - in short, she bullied them into being good little boys and girls to nod in the right places, and keep quiet about their own opinions.

David Davis, and Boris Johnson (to their credit, in my opinion) mulled this over, not agreeing with the option being laid out and decided that they could not put their name to it, and resigned. Sure, Boris has mostly resigned as he sees a leadership contest in the offing, but we will allow him a little bit of credit for walking rather than towing the party line.

The Tory party are now in an almighty mess, and if May survives this, it will be something of a miracle. It may even end up with another general election - of course the trouble with that is that the alternatives Jeremy Corbyn or Vince Cable - - talk about frying pan and fire......

The really worrying thing is that voters across the globe are voting in such a way as to show their feelings toward the elected elite - they are electing people who are making controversial promises (Trump, Giuseppe Conte etc), and STILL the traditional politicians cannot see what is right in front of their nose.