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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: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @08:02AM (1 child)
Also abortion rights were rolled back by Stalin. We should be highly suspicious of these Republican commies that want to roll back Roe v. Wade.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @04:26PM
On these sort of divisive issues, it's unlikely either party would actually pull the trigger. A large chunk of republicans are pro-choice and similarly a large chunk of the pro-life contingent is pro-life only in certain circumstances (e.g. - after second trimester or whatever).
They tease the pro-life stuff to get the evangelicals to show up. If they actually passed it not only would they alienate a pretty sizable chunk of their party, but they'd need to come up with a new gimmick to get the evangelicals. Similar to the DNC with reparations or similar hand-outs. The vast majority of people, including democrats, oppose reparations and so there's not a chance in hell they'd ever pass it. They just use it to try to sustain the usually 90%+ black vote which has been slipping in recent years.