I’ve finally realised! Brexit is jealous of the Good Friday Agreement. The GFA is magic, it looks both ways at once. It’s alchemy. It turns everything to gold. It shouldn’t really work in reality, yet it does. It avoids disappointment on all sides 1.
Brexit wishes it worked like magic, but reality exposes it. It satisfies no one, even the people who love it. It’s a wrecking ball, a destroyer. It has failure built in. 2.
But most of all, the GFA is a success, it’s admired. It’s a masterpiece. It’s internationally applauded. Yes, brexit can never be anything like a peace treaty. It’s too petty,stupid and cruel. Brexit’s architects can never be people fondly remembered. Historical titans 3.
This is the final revenge. All the brexiteers know they will be hated when brexit properly lands. They may have made their money, but they are all narcissists so it will still smart. Brexit is a Mo Mowlam free zone, that’s for sure 4.
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When @theresa_may got elected she dined with the EU dignitaries and apparently said that she expected the EU to facilitate brexit with the NI border not being an issue because, well , Ireland was less important than the UK. 1.
To her shock (and I bet she was shocked. No one says no to these privileged people), she was rebuked and told that the EU would side with a member. It’s the point of the EU after all. I genuinely think she stepped up for PM not knowing this would happen. Naive and stupid. 2.
The Trump regime is learning the same lesson on a grander scale. They were expecting to divide and and conquer, pick off countries separately. That other countries were led by morons who can’t easily outwit Trump’s regime and the nutters in the Heritage Foundation. 3
So, this is what happened. A global pandemic occurred which was no surprise as it was on every country's risk register. At this point, Johnson would have had an 'oh shit' moment when he realised he had sacked the pandemic response team. Mistake number 1. Trump playbook 1/
When they finally managed to get him to engage with it properly, someone will have informed him and Hancock there wasn't nearly enough PPE and Hunt had allowed it all to go out of date. Mistake number 2.
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At this point Civil servants would have suggested ways to get PPE fast. The options would have been NHS procurement, existing suppliers and setting up a central government operation. The Tories chose none of these options. This was not a mistake.
Must be great being a right wing politician. You can lie daily, no one ever plays back what you said before. You can promise the earth and deliver nothing because your voters are as naive and gullible as children and believe you when you say you’ve delivered. 1.
You have armour that hypocrisy arrows cannot pierce and you are unencumbered by conscience or shame so you can chop and change at will, moving the goalposts as you do 2.
You can loot, cheat and steal and throw your voters some slogans and they’ll cheer you whilst you do it. You can wave a flag and stick a dagger right in the heart of what used to make your country great 3.
Brexit is exceptionalism incarnate. The difference between people who voted leave and remain is leave voters are totally unaware of the UK’s true place in the world. 1.
You can understand why ppl would vote leave if they believe
A. The U.K. is more important than Ireland
B. The US sees us as an equal
C. Everyone will give us a trade deal on our terms, because we’re us. 2.
D. We were fine without the EU before we joined, so we’ll be fine again. The world hasn’t changed at all. If it has, we’ll change it back again
E. Commonwealth countries will forget they are independent and come running home
F. We have a QUEEN godamnit! 3.
Well, it’s finally happened. Been waiting for this. Dug in leaver dad at the school. Let’s call him Brexit Steve. Brexit Steve works in a supermarket so brexit was always going to materialise before his very eyes, no matter how balls deep he is in the cult 1.
OH did the school run. There’s absolutely no way Brexit Steve would have this conversation with me because he knows how I’d react. I’ve already had a row with him about NI which is appalling seeing as though his dad was Irish and his sister lives in NI. 2.
OH- you ok Brexit Steve, you look a bit stressed?
BS- we can’t get any staff. Working flat out.
OH- yeah well, EU cits have gone home like people wanted them to. 3.
A child joined boy’s class 2 years ago, but with the pandemic, I hadn’t really got to know her mum. S came into the mum WhatsApp asking if anyone else’s child was in the after school club because she was running late. 1.
I DMd her and said I’d go back at 530 & collect her daughter if she was stuck. So I did and she was here 4 an hour. Don and her had a right laugh 2.
My son wasn’t in after school club but we live near the school. No biggie. She’s just collected her daughter. And she said, ‘You saved my life. Thank you. I’m not used to people helping me’. 3.