And so, with the happy inevitability of a smear test, we approach the fifth anniversary of Brexit and to mark the occasion YouGov released a poll where the question asked was: 'In hindsight do you think Britain was right or wrong to leave the European Union?' and got the answer 'Right' from only 30% of those asked with the rest saying ' We fecked it up good and proper'.
When even Nigel Farage of all people, the cheerleader for all those people who wanted to kick foreigners out the country without actually admitting it so weaseling on about taking back control or some other nonsense, even that craggy faced loser conceded that it has failed, why are the Government afraid to tell voters the 52% got it wrong, its been an absolute shambles and they are going crawling to the EU to take us back?
The Prime Minister is travelling to Brussels tomorrow to forge a 'reset' between the UK and EU although he was at pains to point out that it: 'does not involve a return to the EU.'
Why not i ask? If everyone can see that leaving was a monumental mistake and the British economy has floundered ever since, why not rejoin the largest single market on the Planet that just happens to be situated right on our doorstep?
Those without the required amount of working brain cells point blame the British economic downturn on other economic shocks such as COVID and the Ukraine war-related energy prices but none of them seem to be high enough up the chain in the independent Office for Budget Responsibility who put hit from Brexit to our GDP at 4% and who should we listen to, some bloke who drives the Iceland delivery lorry and boo's at the anti-racism knee taking at football matches and or experienced professional economists with all the relevant data?
It's a bind i know but i will go with the people who actually know what they are talking about so why not start the process of saying sorry and joining up forces again with our closest neighbours and largest trading partner.
The Liberal Democrats are the only Party calling for it but the chances of a second referendum are scarce without one of the main parties joining the call although as the Presidential criminal in the USA is starting to throw tariffs around, the silver lining is that it may push us that way anyway.
Our prosperity depends on reversing the damage the previous Government done to trade with the EU, and Keir going to meet the heads of the EU is a good start but as almost half our trade is with the EU while only 22% of theirs is with us, they hold all the cards and just saying: 'Sorry, we messed up, can we come back please' won't cut it.
Sunday, 2 February 2025
Keir Does Brussels
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first thought, so much for wisdom of the masses - good reason for a republic instead of a democracy
second thought, the uk's economic problems started many years before brexit and there is no way to know if things are better or worse because of brexit
third thought, in spite of being the largest "single" market in the world (as if that contrived title matters, because it doesn't) the eu nations and the eu as a whole have been in an economic decline since about 2012 and it will not reverse for 20 years at least... france is likely the only eu nation that will have a good economy the next 20 years and the other eu nations will try to suck the french dry
fourth thought, the eu still believes in keynesian economics even though it is 100 years old, was debatable as to its effectiveness, was offered as a solution for a shift from agrarian to manufacturing dominated economies, doesn't allow for "service" supplanting manufacturing as the primary component of GDP, doesn't account for electronic communication, computers, AI, modern aviation, the fall of the ussr (and associated decline in US provided globalization that is about to end).
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