My prediction: there will be a poor, threadbare deal, and then will begin the long, slow climb (over many years and probably many different governments, with incremental improvements to the ‘deal’) back to sanity.
The whole Brexit thing has been an absolutely pointless and absolutely destructive waste of time. 😡
We used to be a “member of the club.” In future we shall have to pay (in one way or another) to get the benefits we require, but without full membership and without a say. Pure folly.
I look to a future generation of young politicians who will have lived through this Brexit folly. They will despise Tory fanatics and Labour prevaricators. They will return sanity to our country and with any luck radically reform it.
I think, if they are English, they will welcome Scottish independence and Irish reunification. They won’t stand for the bullshit that swamps us today.
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“As an MP, Zahawi earns £74,962 a year. He also earns £241,500 a year from the Kurdish oil company Gulf Keystone, on top of regular bonuses. He is paid a further £40,000 a year by the recruitment company SThree.” theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
“Zahawi has embarked on a series of property purchases, including a £13.75m house in one of the most exclusive areas of London in 2013. He has spent more than £10m on commercial property through Zahawi & Zahawi, a company he co-owns with his wife, in the last 18 months.”
How can you “earn” £241,500 a year from the Kurdish oil company Gulf Keystone when you don’t work there?
I must have been phenomenally naive in 2016 because I could not believe people would vote for the rightwing project of #Brexit, something no one could say they understood but that was obviously extremely damaging, in the nonbinding frauderendum. I was phenomenally disillusioned.
But that wasn’t the end of my naivety. I couldn’t believe three and a half years later that people would vote for the spoiled-brat, self-serving charlatan and liar, the poisonous Toad .@borisjohnson. Can you be phenomenally disillusioned twice? It felt like it.
I find it hard to answer this question. A necessary legal technicality? One step up from statelessness? Resentment? Anger? Shame? Horror?
The UKIP/Brexiter/Tory attempt to assert Britishness has so mangled, impoverished and destroyed the notion that it only conjures up negative emotions. And having lost our moorings in the EU, a small shift of opinion in Scotland is all it will take and - RIP Britain (1707- 202?).