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Brexit finally got done at 23:00 GMT on 31st December 2020 when the UK's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU finally expired. A "trade deal" between the UK and EU was agreed on 24th December. The Alt-Wrong finally got their prize of freedom, democracy and British sovereignty.
What did they actually win? Chaos at the ports, thousands of tonnes of fish that can't be sold, tariffs, duties, and all sorts of things which were once Project Fear and the undemocratic, treasonous lies of the Liberal Metropolitan Elite, Socialists, Marxists, quislings, traitors, lefties and people who hate their country. Socialism, Marxism, EUSSR, Venezuela, toilet paper!
We are on the third week of this glorious new future of sunlit uplands with no downsides, only upsides with much more to look forward to. And Donald Trump is going to give us a fantastic trade deal with the USA straight away.
Over at the Guardian, Polly Toynbee has an excellent summary entitled Brexiters are waking up to the damage they've done.
As Brexiters turn on each other, Brexit politics move fast. Until now the Tories planned to move on, only reviving “Brexit done” triumphalism to re-arouse the captured red wall at the election: Labour just wanted to bury the whole issue.
The Westminster system has failed us (the UK). We are now looking at Irish Reunification and Scottish Independence. Gibraltar has already got its own deal where it gets to join Schengen.
We have Taken Back Control(TM).
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @05:33AM
Your words belie a lack of knowledge of what the 'UK' was. The British Empire used to lay claim to about a quarter of the world's population. They were one of the most far-spread and powerful empires in existence, all supported by a Navy unlike anything the world had ever seen. Britannia died at the end of World War 2. They were on the winning side but it was, for them, a Pyrrhic victory. The British Empire was ravaged and bankrupt. They were left to "liberate" nearly all of their territories and they rapidly transitioned from a world spanning megapower to America's little sidekick or 'that weird little country that bans everything'.
The decline of the British Empire was humiliatingly rapid and remains in the living memory of many Brits alive today.