Remember when Brexiteers said that there would be less bureaucracy? Well, as every sensible person predicted, there is a hell of a lot more. Everything Brexiteers were saying in 2016 is turning out, predictably, to be wrong. They even predicted economic growth in spite of the fact that the whole concept of Brexit was to do less trade with your most lucrative markets. And the ironies will not end. The sight of DUP MPs crying in the House of Commons about Northern Ireland's new status as only slightly British is very amusing. History will conclude that the Democratic Unionist Party was instrumental in the destruction of the Union. And Brexiteers can whinge all they like; the fact is that they voted to give Dutch custom officials the right to confiscate British sandwiches. And, let's make one thing very clear as the destruction of the UK gathers pace: there is no extra sovereignty to be had. None. Not a scintilla. You can only get into the EU by being fully sovereign in the first place. The notion of trading wealth for sovereignty was nonsense. Britain's wealth is being squandered for nothing.

Brexit, like Trumpism is a cult. Brexiteers will NOT wake up to the damage they have done, they will still blame it on something else, probably the evil EU. "See? Look at how evil the EU is, it's trying to destroy us now, we surely are glad we left so we exposed them!" They even will get to blame the government that didn't get a full no deal Brexit so we still have to abide by a minimum of EU rules. The evil elves, unicorns and leprechauns are next.... Germany went to a similar phase after the war, the country laid in ruins and Nazi supporters still blaming something and somebody else for the catastrophe. I don't know if it's a flaw in human nature or a by product of stupidity, greed, poor education or a combination of all those factors. The reality is that Brexiteers will never own this clusterfuck and find always some scapegoat. Too bad Labour still doesn't understand that it's complicit and bears responsibility as well, yes I'm talking to you Corbyn the undecider and Starmer the appeaser, you should fight to rejoin the EU not just lay there and accept the mess. This fight is NOT over till the Brits rejoin. I know there are millions of Brits "brerejoin" folks that want back what we had even if the common British people will lose all the privileges they had before as a special founding member of the EU. Maybe it's better this way. Sorry for the rambling rant, it's just my new state of feelings. British government completely misunderstood the workings of a single market and customs union. Yes, Brexiteers realise their mistakes which is why they are marching on Westminster demanding the Brits rejoin the EU. Political parties are collapsing unless they advocate rejoining the EU...Nah. Echo chamber Remainers won't give up, but everyone else is just getting on with it. The only point of discussion at present is getting the vaccine and getting the UK back to work again. Brexit is the past, people have moved on, it is a done deal. As such the majority don't give a shit, they have had over 4 years of Brexit and bored with it. Welcome to the wilderness, make yourself comfortable, you are going to be here for a long while.

The reality of foreign trade is that most tariffs thanks to the WTO are relatively low and don't impede trade that much. What impedes trade are so called non tariff barriers in which local manufacturers have ways to make imports hard and more expensive slower. That is why the Single Market had no such barriers. And of course the Single Market was a Thatcher idea and very much designed by Britain. Now if you want a single market you need common standards so there are no non tariff barriers. And for this yep you agree to give up a bit of sovereignty. Just like when you sign up to climate change reductions treaty you give up a bit of sovereignty. The Brexit voters simply don't grasp any of this. Can't in fact grasp it. Have instructed their brains to not work when this is explained. Hence their shock when non tariff barriers hamper business...

I know, I know my little Brexiteers. Hush…There there… ( )

A must read book to understand the Prime Minister.