Eight Years Today

I make no apologies for this post.

Betrayal

So, here we are, the eighth anniversary of that most heinous affair - the Brexit referendum. That dish of lies sold cold to a public ready to give the government of the day a right good kicking - which they did. Desperate Dodgy Dave Cameron (the PM at the time (now Lord Dodgy Dave of wherethefuckever)) gave in to having a referendum to try and unite his fractious/fractured party, and to quieten the Eurosceptics like Rees Mogg. He failed! He was always going to fail. The one thing that might have saved him embarrassment would have been to put a lock on the result, requiring a two thirds majority. He didn't - he lost - he scuttled off leaving others to clear up the pile of shit he left in the corner. Over recent years I have become heartily sick of hearing the Moggian chant about the Betrayal of Brexit. What the long streak of urinary effluent that is Jacob Rees Mogg, and his fellow Eurosceptics, seem to ignore is that no one was/is 'betraying' Brexit, because it has failed/is failing all by itself as it was/is completely undoable! But, of course, that scenario doesn't suit their purpose, it has to be the fault of a combination of 'remoaners', 'enemies of the people', 'vermin in ermine' and/or the EU. But, stop, let's think about betrayal for a few moments.

Now is the point where I will come clean. I voted to remain in the EU, and did so for many reasons, it is by no means a perfect solution, but it is the best show in town right now. I am no politician, neither am I am lawyer (except in the bar room sense), I come at things from a more creative and philosophical angle. At the end of the day I am nothing more nor less than a simple country oik, albeit a haphazardly educated one, with an OU degree, and another in process. So, why did I vote remain? For many reasons really:-
a) why would you leave your biggest trading partner? I don't think that The Maybot saw the irony of asking Wee Nicola this question when the possibility of a second Scottish Independence referendum was tabled.
b) the fact that there has been unprecedented peace (with the exception of the Balkans) in Europe for many decades now.
c) the fact that Vlad 'the bad' Putin wants nothing more than a divided Europe, and now has tame puppets, in the form of Farage, Trump et.al. to lend assistance, after pouring money into the Leave campaign via some dodgy methods.
d) freedom of movement - who wouldn't want that?
Just a few of the many reasons that I want to remain a part of the EU. Brexit is the reason that I now have an Irish passport, and remain an EU citizen - and no rancid fucking Tory can take that away from me.

Back to the betrayal, if there is any recognisable betrayal it is the ongoing betrayal of the Moggian Mob. For them there could be no solution other than driving the Brexit bus over the edge of the cliff. They don't seem to get that their solution is a complete and utter betrayal of democracy, the economy, their country, even of those who believed their lies during the referendum campaign. This is even before I begin to think about the hypocrisy of this bunch of morons. Now, before you shout too loudly, educated people are better placed to be morons than the uneducated. Not one of them really want to be out of the EU, Loony Lawson has become a French citizen, Fuckwit Farage scrabbled around for German passports for his family, the Mogg moved his business interests to Dublin - rats abandoning a ship headed for the rocks, need I continue?

The more one reads the more one comes to realise just what this bunch of lying, cheating charlatans really are - disaster capitalists! These guys are like a cat who sees a decorated Christmas tree that brings out its inherent instinct to create chaos. They want to bring about a catastrophe that breaks everything purely and simply so that they can get their greedy hands on what is left for a pittance, and make a killing for themselves in the longer term. The thing is that these hypocrites have the resources to see out the many decades of austerity that inevitably follow driving the Brexit bus over the edge of the cliff, they will not suffer in the least, unlike those who are struggling, and were even before the event, and who are being driven further and further into poverty by a 'hard' Brexit.

In conclusion, That is all now in the past and we are enjoying wandering around the 'sunny uplands' and reaping the rewards of those many 'Brexit bonuses' we were promised. Also I note that no one I know has ever taken delivery of the unicorns we were promised - I'm sure that the delivery of mine must be in the hands of Hermes/EVRI as it is still a no show. And now here we are more or less in the middle of an election campaign and no politician has the balls to mention that big hairy mammoth (Brexit) standing in the corner - the very thing that should be being discussed right now given the present world situation. The one thing that these wankers seem to have forgotten is why we needed entry into Europe back in the day. Back then Britain was the 'sick man of Europe'. Our entry changed that, and love her or hate her (and I detested her, and still do) Thatcher got Britain the best deal of any of the other member states. Now here we are again, having thrown out the bath water with no regard for the baby in it, standing on the outside, once more the 'sick man of Europe' with none of the above mentioned dickheads having any clue what needs to be done. I remember a 1960s expression which strikes me as quite relevant right now - Stop the World I Want to get Off. Then there's the quote from The Italian Job "You weren't meant to blow the bloody doors off!". All it really needs is someone with the bottle to stand up and say 'hey guys, this isn't working, don't you think we should have a bit of a reset here?' - but who? Certainly none of the present bunch of clowns who want to run the country. Surely it is better to be inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

Nuff said!