Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Avoid A Newspaper Today Dan

In the olden times, anything written in a newspaper disappeared within a day of it being published, ideally ending up wrapped round your fish and chips. These days, of course, newspaper content lives on seemingly for ever on the Internet which can be annoying for Politicians who can change their thinking at the drop of a hat, if you asked some if they still thought what they wrote a few months later they would reply that they probably didn’t even think it by tea that day so heaven only knows what Tory MP Daniel Hannan thinks about Brexit today.  
Back in 2016, Brexit supporting Dan prophesied about what the post-EU sunlit uplands would be like on this very day in an article in the Times and it began with 'It’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn’t just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours'  which shows a remarkable ability to be absolutely wrong about everything.  
I assume Dan the man has been eyeing his calendar nervously hoping nobody would remember his Mystic Meg predictions , too busy looking in the local newspaper for the nearest venue of all the street and firework parties i assume to celebrate that 4% hit to our GDP?
Somebody really should explain to him that despite his wishes, agriculture and fishing are not booming, the UK is not the foremost knowledge-based economy in the world, steel and ceramics have not become competitive again and the EU is not withering and dying without Britain.
Birmingham and Leeds are not financial capitals of the world, the UK has not become the centre of world shipping, shale oil and gas has not driven down energy prices and Universities have not flourished and the Brexit supporters are keeping their head's downs, embarrassed that they were taken in by numpties like him promising them the World but the World he delivered was akin to Mars or Venus.   
Forshame that man, or not if you have none, but i am looking forward to your predictions for the state of Britain on 24th June 2035.