Readers Blog: Britain gets ready to face realities of Brexit
Brexit is becoming more of a talking point in recent days, probably due to media coverage which focuses the plot a bit more in people’s minds — the realisation that it’s most likely going to be like jumping from the
frying pan into the fire is beginning to hit home.
Everyone knows this turmoil boils down to the Little Englander mentality, those who felt they were being colonised by an EU parliament whose laws took precedence over theirs.
An uncomfortable feeling it may be, but isn’t it nice to see the shoe on the other foot for a change? It should give them a better understanding of how our ancestors felt when they were deprived of their properties by Her Majesty’s forces, but the side-effect is clearly that they don’t.
English xenophobia is an abhorrence to those who suffered because of it, and it is this blinkered hankering to the past which is threatening to dismantle what’s left of the union without the likes of enthusiastic Brexiteers Rees-Mogg, Johnson, or Foster even realising it. I did a shortened version of a jig when Margaret Thatcher departed this world, and if I’m alive and able to stand on my own two feet, I will do a jig wherever I’m at if Brexit finally puts an end to England’s unlawful ownership claim to the six counties or, indeed, Rockall.
The Conservative Party conference was a slimy affair of unbridled Euro bashing. Comparing the EU to the Soviet Union was an idiotic insult to countries and people like Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, who lived under Soviet communism in Poland.
Theresa May trying her best to do an impression of someone dancing was an embarrassment to watch, her contrived moves with background music resembled a cricket having an orgasm.
In another side room, Boris Johnson was entertaining a few hundred delusional Brexiteers with tales of making Britain great again, even implying that building a bridge across the Irish Sea would somehow circumvent issues in relation to the backstop agreement, which is there to prevent a border reappearing on the island of Ireland in any shape or form.
He could be the next leader of the Conservative Party and what a joke that would be.
Aside from the distasteful attributes of English nationalist Brexiteers, they have no road map, no plan, no clue as to the mess they’re getting themselves into, and unfortunately, we are going to suffer because of their folly.
It will affect the relationship between east and west, north and south, and will be difficult to surmount. Britain exports more foodstuff to Ireland than to India, China, and Brazil multiplied by two.
The problem for us is that all the big discount stores like Lidl, Aldi, and Tesco have their main distribution centres based in Britain; another shock to me was the fact that all flour is exported from Britain, we have no flour mills here, just like the sugar beet factories we got rid of them.
Most of the sandwiches for sale in motorway shops are produced across the water as well.
hen we have the reality of over 3,000 SMEs who have no trade source other than the British market, so what’s in store for them?
The strand of Brexiteers like the Arlene Fosters of this world who have been ‘chewing their cud’ in glee at their two-fingered approach to the EU will suffer a humiliating climbdown when it becomes apparent that big businesses like Panasonic in London are moving their headquarters to the Netherlands and others in the financial sector planning their moves to Dusseldorf, Paris, and, to a lesser degree, Dublin.
Their political posturing will see higher inflation and a weakening of sterling which will guarantee that Downing Street’s balance sheets will be heading for limbo land, and Nicola Sturgeon will demand a referendum that will see the republic of Scotland emerge from the ashes.
11pm on Friday, March 29, 2019, is the date for the cock to come home to roost in British terms. It means that everything from planes and ferries to freight lorries will grind to a halt at airport terminals and docks because trade, travel, and freedom of movement will no longer be feasible as trade and flight barriers will apply immediately.
The electricity market in the six counties is owned by the Irish Government via the ESB so could the last person leaving please switch off the lights.
