Brexit is now a runaway freight train of crazy – and
we are all straight-jacketed in.
For light cogitation, I was considering the
fundamentals of why Brexit is utter lunacy.
Put aside the fact that we only have Brexit because
the right wing of the Conservative party is wagging the otherwise limp body of
the blind, deaf, arthritic dog and the gutter press have used the EU as
something to snipe at whenever they ran out of celebrity gossip –Brexit is still
mad as a box of frogs. Despite the Empire fantasists who are shunting this tug
boat, the only waves Britannia is ruling are waves of nauseating nostalgia.
Turn-out at the recent local elections (around 30%)
at a crucial time in the UK’s history shows utter disdain for both of the major
parties – one mired in an anti-Semitism row – the other in a kind of sate
racism of the Windrush debacle (see blog 273).
Our Foreign Secretary is a joke abroad, our
Secretary of Defense is a squeaky creepy boy with no experience, our Secretary
of Sate for the Environment famously thinks you shouldn’t listen to experts. I
would go on but you get the point and I’ve covered all that many times on this
blog. Theresa May’s judgement is infamously bad and the only reason she’s
not out is that the Tories don’t know who would replace her and stand so firmly
while the S—t is spread around by the huge Brexit fan (see blog 270).
And – as Macron seems now to be the only major EU
leader avec Trump entente cordial and the UK ‘special relationship’ is now just
an acquaintance with someone who has serious special needs – the idea that there is any
credible replacement out there for the massive free trading partnership the UK
has enjoyed with the EU for most of my life time is beyond farce.
Also, Britain has never been in a worse position to
‘go it alone’. Existing as we have on the fumes of empire – the mismanagement
and the total privatisation of the UK has turned what was a wealthy nation into
a clapped-out vehicle on bricks in the yard ready for scrap (see blog 268).
I want the yobs baying for raw Brexit to explain
just which bits of Britain are not broken. Which bits are ready and functioning
and fit for purpose in the brave new world of ‘us and global free trade’.
I am currently still waiting for a ticket refund
from Virgin trains that I applied for on 15th February – for another
rubbish journey kyboshed by over-running engineering works on our failing rail
networks. I am also in dispute with privatised energy giant npower – dating
back 4 years over a mess they made of a household bill when I moved house. The
head of customer services (hold on a minute while I stop laughing at that
misnomer) sent me several mails in the last couple of months telling me his
‘team’ will sort the matter in 5 working days – the 4 yr old farce is still
unresolved.
Many and sad are the personal stories of friends of
mine whose kids – with 10s of thousands of pounds of student debt are kept off
the unemployment figures on zero hours contract ‘jobs’ (see blog 174 – zero hours
in not a contract) or shelf stacking or living off mum and dad – depressed and downtrodden.
Major high street shop closures are now so common
they rarely catch the main news (see blog 185).
Bank branches are closing in droves. Ironically, the
reasons given include the prevalence of online banking – just as the TSB bank
is in hot water for their online banking disaster which has left thousands of
customers stranded without banking facilities.
In this supposedly developed country, many of our
cities regularly suffer from dangerous levels of toxic fumes. Our children are
breathing it all in while the government spends all its time on the Brexit debacle.
The NHS struggles with the ongoing obesity crisis,
IT failures, under-funding and staff shortages while longevity has decreased in
the poorest areas of Britain since we first began to measure these things.
Tragedies like Grenfell Tower (see blog 240) show us
that we do indeed need the very health and safety regulation derided in the
gutter press and often penned in Brussels.
The wholesale contracting out of the management of
Britain came to its own horrible hiatus earlier this year with the collapse of
the Carillion behemoth leaving hospitals part-built and huge government contracts unfulfilled –
but with shareholders’ pockets bulging.
So as the team that are pulling this wagon look more
and more like a bunch of nags ready for the knackers yard – the government need
to explain to the British people which bits of the UK are still functioning and
ready to ‘rule the waves’.
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