Brexit Review

Review Of Brexit

Everyone now knows, or should know, the battles going on with regard to Brexit. It’s still possible some kind of reasonable deal can be made but the major bets seem to be on a no-deal Brexit, whatever the consequences, which are generally presumed to be seriously negative.

So, to get perspective, let’s go back three years to pre-referendum times. What was happening in the UK then? The UK then was a major player in the most important economic block in the world, economically robust in itself with a strong currency and positive trade balance. The country was prosperous, even if that prosperity wasn’t being shared equitably.

What were the promises of Brexit? Another £350 million for the NHS, now a subsidiary budgetary consideration, subsidiary to emergency measures. Independence to conduct our own trade deals? Some 50 or so to be renegotiated on the basis of access to a market of 60 million rathet than 510 million and new deals in which we pitch our 60 million market strength against that of the size of markets in the USA, China and India. Who are we trying to kid?

Now? There is talk of the Dunkirk spirit, emergency measures to counteract resource deficiencies of food, medical supplies, etc, and major budget allocations not to grow the natioçn’s wealth and make citizens better off but to ward off penury and economic failure. Why? As a political manifesto when no one is at war with the UK, how does that stand up? Where is the gain, who benefits? Certainly not the average working person in the UK, who faces loss of jobs and higher prices for food and other essentials. So why are so many people still voting for this? It makes no sense at all.

If it makes no sense, and most people can be credited with reasonably good sense, what has happened to peoples’ good sense? They must have been manipulated in some way, en masse, and that can happen only via the mass media. So who owns the mass media and what have they to gain? And who in positions of political power are backing this deception and why? Think about it, read your Orwell.