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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, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @06:29AM
I don't understand how people such as yourself fail to understand one simple recurring issue. It's not "politicians that caused the problem". The question was asked in a democratic fashion and the public and the public chose to leave. And that was after they were (and continue to be) inundated with nonstop propaganda against Brexit. And Authoritarian globalists spent years trying to cancel democracy, and hoping to somehow change the tide. And they failed. Even if Brexit were run again, it'd *still* [mirror.co.uk] pass.
This is why democracy is failing. People on both sides appeal to it when they like the result of an election, but then aim to destroy society and undermine democracy in every imaginable way when they don't like the answer it gives. The very nature of democracy means you're sometimes not going to get your way. And at that point the right path forward is to make the best of what you perceive to be a bad situation, and move on with your life looking forward to the next vote where you can make your voice heard, so long as you believe that your vote still matters.