Theresa May clings to the edge of the precipice like a desperate limpet. Behind her the storms are raging as the hard right, under the dastardly Davis, Fox and Rees-Mogg, plot to prise her fingers loose and toss her into the abyss. Gove struts around like a gleeful golem and the knives are being sharpened. On the moderate wing they are also sharpening their talons as they begin to wake up and enter the fray. They want an end to austerity and the future of the country put before dogma, they want an end to the public sector pay cuts and the economy put first in Brexit talks. Some even want the government to fall. The battle has begun and the pounding breakers will undoubtedly dislodge May. The fight will be bloody.
Meanwhile the country waits as the Tory party shapes up to tear itself apart. In the land of sanity, where power isn’t the only currency, everyone watches with horror as the country lurches into chaos and a floundering future. As the full impact of Brexit becomes clearer by the day and the massive cost of extricating ourselves from the treaties and collaborations becomes transparent, we are being cast against the rocks by power-mad politicians who put themselves and their party first.
There is money for the DUP bung but not for the nurses, teachers and other heroes. There is always money to prop up the dogma and lust for power. If it comes to tax cuts for the rich or the corporations they simply rob the poor, disabled and public servants. They disgust me.
What a farce. I hope that buffoon Boris, whose lies, got us into this mess and is already costing us dear, is ashamed. He jettisoned his own principles, reversed his position, knifed his colleagues, and put his own lust for power before the good of his country and the party.
Brexit is a disaster. It will prove the costliest mistake in the long history of Britain and hasten our demise as a world power and major economy. It has sold our children into an uncertain future. All for vain glory and a harking back to Dunkirk (another disaster) and a time that never was.
I just wish that Jeremy Corbyn, who will shortly be Prime Minister, will come to his senses and put a halt to the madness. Brexit is a mistake. It needs stopping. The cost, in so many ways, financial and an array of others, is far far too high.
You urgently need to read ‘Adults in the Room’ by Yanis Varoufakis before you say another word about Brexit. It’s an outstanding account of exactly who thinks what, who does what and who decides what in Europe. It will blow this ill-informed nonsense of yours into smithereens.
I also implore you to investigate exactly what is happening in Germany today. Why they are now the largest importers of stun guns and mace guns in Europe?
Personal protection retail outlets are also springing up all over France and Italy.
What on earth has Dunkirk got to do with it?
An interesting take on “May’s Mess”. I’m no economist, but as I watched the Brexit referendum campaign, I was somewhat surprised to see the pro-Brexit side constantly harping on returning to the nation’s greatness of years gone past, and the issue of refugees and immigration. I realize that there are challenges in the EU, not the least of which is nationalism, but freeing up trade and the movement of people across borders has to be better for the economy than isolationism.
They played on fear of terrorism John, that and the xenophobia of the British. They stoked it right up so that everyone was frightened of Muslims and there were hordes of foreigners looking to scrounge off our benefit system and take our jobs. The usual populist mantra. There is always these rose-tinted glasses for days gone by, the endurance of Britain through the Blitz, the spirit of Dunkirk. The reality was a lot more unpleasant than remembered. The real costs to the nation were never adequately spelt out. Brexit is a tragedy in my opinion.
Yes, the play on fear was glaringly apparent during the election campaign. About the rose-tinted glasses – it’s laughable when they say that hindsight is 20/20. Right!
Too true John. We reinvent the past to fit it into our own model.
Get you facts right Opher. The xenophobia of the English, not the British. The Scottish Brexit vote was 60% stay, 40% leave. Such a typical little middle-england trait, when the going’s good it’s England, not so, it’s Britain. Is it any wonder that most Scots are done with you lot?
I just think it’s so interesting that our countries are melting down together. Seriously… What’s up with that?
I think it is partly nostalgia for days that never were when we were both great, partly that the establishment (wealthy and powerful) are so firmly in control that they are complacent, that globalisation has left so many behind, new technologies have dumped the old ones, automation has destroyed jobs, so very many people have been dumped from well-paid, skilled work into low-pay rubbish jobs, zero hours or unemployment, they are desperate and nobody cares. Out of desperation, stupidity and some promise of hope they buy into Trump, Brexit and every fascist that comes along promising the earth.
The fact is that the rich are, and will continue, to do very nicely out of this. They do not give a damn. There will be a tipping point when people have nothing to lose and take the law into their own hands.
Your words remind me of the movie Elysium with Matt Damon. It’s all right there on the big screen. And, unfortunately, I think you hit the nail on the head. At least it feels like that here. I finally had to stop reading/watching the news. It was just putting me in such a bad head space. But everywhere you go here you hear people talking about it. That’s something that I’ve never seen happen before. As scary as that is to me, maybe it’s a good thing? Will it be the start of the change the world needs?
There has to be a move towards fairness and justice or it will all go pear-shaped. Trump is not the answer.
Yes, because there can BE no peace without justice. We just had a very intense worship service about that this month. Peace with Justice Sunday… I think it’s a world-wide observation among churches now.
No peace without justice – that is so right. I think Haile Selassie said something like that when he addressed the UN.
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What I said earlier is coming to fruition.