I have been criticised by some of my many millions of readers (is this right? – ed) for being horrible to Daily Mail readers. They are, after all, thoroughly decent mainly female middle class pensioners who remember Britain when it was Great and hate the way it has been taken over by political correctness, wokism and of course snowflakes. Except that Britain has not been taken over by any of these people because, and I am sorry to spoil your fun, there is no such thing as political correctness, being woke is A Good Thing and the only snowflakes I know of are the ones who lose their shit at the front page of the Daily Mail. A week ago, the Hate Mail pointed out just how horrible Johnny Foreigner is being to us plucky Brits. They want to make our lives hell when we travel to EU countries. But why? It’s because of what we asked them to.
Don’t worry: I’m not going on off on anti Brexit, or more to the point a rejoin, rant or anything like that. I know that while Boris Johnson’s shit negotiator David Frost gave us a terrible Brexit deal, one which needs to be improved upon by whoever forms the next government, there’s no going back in the foreseeable future. For the time being we are, as they say, where we are. So let’s stick to the facts.
All these ‘new’ checks, we asked for them. We asked to wait longer in queues to get our passports stamped and in many places in Europe, and I’ve certainly experienced this in a few places, including Corfu, us separatist Brits have been given our own departure lounges. No need to mix with Mr Foreigner. Us Brits can all stand together and moan about how ghastly he is.
But look at the Mail’s sly dig at France. “And we’re relying on the French to make the checks work”, not adding, just implying, that you can’t reply on those dodgy French folk to do anything properly. Perhaps the Mail simply ran out of space before they could add “that we literally asked for”.
We’re stuck now with longer airport waits because of the Brexit Boris Johnson chose for us. That’s the problem for the foreseeable future. if you voted to “TAKE BACK CONTROL” of our borders, this is literally what you voted for, even though shysters like Nigel Farage and Johnson may have omitted to inform you of the small details. (By the way, if you voted Brexit to reduce or even stop immigration, your joy at stopping Europeans coming over here and doing the jobs we don’t want to do may be tempered by the fact that we are now having record numbers of immigrants, who these days are more likely to come here from Pakistan, Nigeria and India. Still, that goes with having an Empire and, these days, a Commonwealth.)
In 2016, we voluntarily gave up our freedom to live, work, study and retire in EU countries, told the EU we wanted to be a third country and they obliged, happily or not. When they then impose rules that we ask them to impose, it’s a bit rich when rags like the Mail, which all but instructed its readers to vote leave, to then complain that they’re actually doing it and that, somehow, they are the baddies.
There are no benefits to Brexit and there never will be so we’re now in a position of having to make the best of a bad deal, hopefully by replacing the bad deal with a good one.
Doubtless the Mail, owned by tax dodger Lord Rothermere who lives in … er … France, will attack any government which tries to improve the Brexit arrangements but, as we should all recognise, Brexit finally got done by Johnson and we’re stuck with it. Anyway, aren’t us Brits happy to queue? We’d better be because there’s plenty more queuing to come.
