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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: 3, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday January 19 2021, @07:37PM (2 children)
It seems to me that the vote wasn't exactly a majority voting to exit, nor was it supposed to be a binding vote?
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Wednesday January 20 2021, @01:41AM
Exactly, the failure was treating a non-binding referendum which resulted in basically a tie as a binding vote that resulted in basically Constitutional changes that can't be easily undone.
Most countries have a way higher bar for Constitutional level changes, a super-majority in the voters, or in a Federal system, likewise a super-majority or at least a couple of votes.
The question that was asked was unclear and at the minimum should have been followed up with another vote on the exit deal, and should have required a clear majority to pass.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 20 2021, @12:33PM