Brexit has proved to be the disaster we predicted.
It has certainly shaken my faith in democracy. We had a decision made by the uninformed, easily led, xenophobes, racists and the most stupid. It mirrors the support and election of Trump.
Social media, led by those with clearly vested interests (people like Farage, Johnson and Rees-Mogg who all made a killing) ran a campaign based on fear, division and the undermining of experts, that successfully divided the country, empowered the most unpleasant factions, cost us a fortune and has completely broken the country.
This was the same template created by Trump and the far-right populist MAGA movement.
They galvanise the uneducated and deprived and somehow convince them that a billionaire living in a lavish, gaudy mansion with gold toilets cares about them. They still cannot see this grifter is simply making money – $5 billion so far – while employing his extended family in a business that rivals the mafia.
Likewise in the UK, the same people from the same social strata have been convinced to put their faith in a merchant banker multimillionaire who is busily lining his own pockets while drumming up scare stories, racism and xenophobia for his own ends.
Brexit ‘has made everything from economy to immigration worse in UK’
It’s not migrants who are breaking the country – it’s billionaires, millionaires and social media magnates!! We are being duped!