I know one person who voted to leave the EU knowing it might make him worse off. Oh no, wait. He voted to leave the EU because it might make others worse off, not necessarily him. More expensive holidays were a price worth paying to take back control, of what I’m afraid he was unable to tell me. “We will get are (sic) country back!” he announced.
Project Fear, under its new guise as her majesty’s government, told us today that if there was no Brexit deal with the EU, planes, trains and automobiles would have major problems getting to destinations across the channel. This was Mrs May’s government’s “worst case scenario”, although they were unable to say what the best case scenario might be.
If this sort of threat had come from the ‘remain’ camp before the disastrous 2016 referendum, led by David Cameron and George Osborne (ask your parents, kids, if these names don’t ring any bells), you can bet your big fat arse that the siren voices from the hard right of the Tory party would be shouting “Project Fear!” at the top of their voices. However, this sort of threat is not a threat at all. It’s what the current hard right Tory government thinks will happen in the event of no deal. It will never happen, right? The planes will keep flying, won’t they?
My guess is that the planes, trains and automobiles will keep moving after Loss of Independence Day occurs next March. Somehow, Theresa May and her woeful ministers will come up with something to kick the can of the effects of Brexit down the road yet again. But that is just a guess. No deal will mean literally no deal.
Many airlines are not taking a chance. They are putting clauses in the small print of flight sales from April 2019 onwards. In a no deal scenario, it is entirely possible people could book flights and then not be able to fly. And what’s worse for the UK is that the government has known all about this potential state of affairs all along.
Mrs May’s pitiful whinge about the EU after they rejected her pathetic Brexit plan was not aimed at the EU: it was aimed at a domestic audience who were supposed to be impressed at her Churchillian attitude. But Churchill himself would never have gotten into this mess. No capable politician would. Churchill would, undoubtedly, have been at the vanguard for remain. Much as I am loathe to even mention her name, the evil Thatcher would have joined him, given her involvement in the creation of the single market. Theresa May made us look idiots last week.
Every single version of Brexit will make our country poorer and every single version of Brexit will reduce our influence on the world. Some people really do believe that it’s worth (someone else) being worse off. It’s the politics of the mad house and 52% of the population voted for it.
