The benefits of Brexit!

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The main benefit is that Rees-Mogg, among others, made millions out of it!

Benefit number two is that it managed to get a bunch of inept ultranationalists elected with a whacking 80 seat majority so they can do what they like and make loadsa money.

Benefit number three is that it enabled the loony right to completely take over the Tory Party and oust all the moderates so that they were unopposed.

Apart from that there are no benefits. All those easy trade deals never materialised. It’s costing us £37 million a year and all the fears about trade and firms leaving the country came true. All the higher costs, red tape, tariffs and destabilisation of the UK came true. All the shortages of labour, delays, long queues, loss of freedoms and subsequent price rises came true.

We took back control from the EU and handed it to a bunch of rabid, lying, corrupt, overprivileged, overgrown Eton schoolboys who are buggering everything up while profiting greatly!

John Donne – No Man Is An Island

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On this sad day of Brexit when the nationalists and patriotic jingoists have won and torn us apart from our neighbors, we say goodbye to collaboration, to freedom of movement, freedom to work and study without red tape; we say hello to more bureaucracy, more restrictions, less freedoms and higher prices. We diminish our power and lower our horizons. Today our island is up for sale in nefarious trade deals where environmental standards, food standards, and workers’ rights are up for grabs.

I am reminded of John Donne’s poem. This clod has been washed away and we are all the less. But I am still a piece of the continent.

‘No Man is an Island

‘No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent,

a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,

as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were;

any man’s death diminishes me,

because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.