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Brexit is Done

Journal by turgid

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).

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 20 2021, @12:46PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 20 2021, @12:46PM (#1102830) Journal

    The bigger, more serious problem is that Facebook and other social control media have even stronger footholds in other countries than they have had in the UK. There social control media are actively brewing even worse discontent and, possibly, on the verge of fomenting violence, but keeping it just below the surface so that standing politicians can turn a blind eye to it until it is too late. Only a small number are tuned in, the rest are twitting away and having sessions in Facebook video and so on, feeding the very beast which will soon kill their institutions, and possibly the politicians themselves also.

    Keep in mind that a fair number of those other countries badly need a cull of their institutions.