Brexit

Don’t think I have felt so depressed for a very long time.

A few months ago I went to en exhibition at the British Museum. It focused on a large Island off mainland Europe. It had seen waves of invaders and the Normans were one of the main groups who beat the indigenous inhabitants and set up a kingdom. Given its location, the Island was a major trader and became very prosperous.

Subsequently the Silk Trail was fully opened and Western European’s nations explorers found routes to the Far East and also the opening up of Africa, and the America’s. From being a ‘major player’, the kingdom slowly declined in importance, it has become a back water, where organised criminals, still leave a major shadow. Hordes of migrants land on its shores and despite it being a pleasant land, it is relatively impoverished.

Sicily was that thriving multicultural centre. However its decline is now very marked. I fear that the UK will slowly decline and become more irrelevant in the world, another island which lost sight of changes in the world and could not adapt.

Our economic importance is in decline, we are dependent on imports of lots of materials the cost of which will increase as the pound decreases in value compared to other currencies. We have a welfare and health system, which is dependent on generating wealth, which will surely go into decline. There is the issue of Northern Ireland and there are some odious characters there who will exploit the situation (the Brexiters have never ever explained how they were going to resolve that conundrum in a practical manner).


Frankly the future is very bleak.

 

Indeed. And we all know that the real reason that the likes of Rees-Mogg, John Moulton, Paul Dacre, BoJo, Dyson, Farage etc are so concerned about any suggestion that the UK would remain subject to EU directives is because of the snappily titled EU Directive 2016/1164 which will be implemented next year and which we're all familiar with!

It's better known as the Anti Tax Avoidance Directive and will start to bring an end to the many UK overseas tax havens where the rich, famous and questionable keep their fortunes beyond the reach of UK and other EU tax authorities. And without the hardest of Brexits as favoured by the likes of Rees-Mogg, Moulton, Dacre, Dyson, Farage, BoJo etc etc the UK may well have to sign up to this new directive. And for those with something to hide or at least not disclose, it could be a major problem

 

And they'll all be able to use their new blue passports when flying to and fro between the UK and the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Gibraltar, Bermuda etc to count their lolly.

 

So not a penny for a pound?

I guess Swiss Franc’s and Dinar’s of any denomination, plus Gold and even Bit Coins!

 

Of course they are doing it in the best interests of we the British people! Rees-Mogg has said already said that. He's quite content to have to wait for 50 fecking years for the economic impact of a hard Brexit to show some benefit. In the meantime with him being such a great democrat and supporter of our Parliamentary democracy, who exactly is representing his constituents in North East Somerset who voted by a large margin to remain in the EU?

 

People’s vote mate! Once they made their mind up that is it!

Wait for a referendum on; stopping benefit payments, bringing back hanging, etc. Once the ‘people’ decide that is it. Peoples democracy, stuff Parliament, and a further ‘let’s have a good think about it’ referendum, ‘what is done is done’, end of period!