Brexit

Well well oh boy here goes… I planned on staying well away from touchy subjects like Politics and Religion, as we all know those conversations can turn nasty real quick. However I do want to discuss current events and if you’re British, talking about Brexit is almost unavoidable. As I’m writing this the Brexit date is October 31st 2019 (Although there’s a good chance that’ll change) Halloween, the night where darkness falls across the land and order is replaced by chaos… yep that sounds about right.

Now I won’t say how I voted in the 2016 EU referendum (Some things should stay private) but I’ll say I’m definately not a remoaner. We all voted, leave won, if you don’t like that go lock yourself in a room, cry for a while maybe punch a pillow imagining it’s David Cameron then come out take a deep breath and accept what happened (That’s what I did when Trump won 2016 US election but that’s a post all of its own). No matter how you voted, I think we can all agree (Including politicians themselves) that the politicians have royally f**ked things up. It’s like they came up with an essay titled “How to make Brexit work” and then just did the exact opposite.

Throughout the whole thing I’ve tried my best to see both sides opinion (Although I do still get pissed off sometimes). Brexiteers want to be out of the EU I think to change this country on a fundamental level. Which is understandable, the UK may be a rich country but it is far from perfect, there are fatal flaws throughtout this country, everything from the legal system to the NHS have problems that can’t be solved with quick fixes (Putting a plaster over a gaping wound). Despite our wealth as a nation, we have sick people leaving on the streets and ignored, children going to bed almost every night hungry because their family can’t afford food, criminals going free to walk amongst us due to corruption and greedy companies killing the planet just because they can. The only way to fix these problems is with major change and people saw voting to leave the EU as a way to achieve that level of change. It’s a big risk, no one can deny that but when your life feels empty and hopeless, when you have nothing why would you vote for everything to stay the same? Leaving the EU after decades comes with much uncertainty but at least with uncertainty there’s hope that things will get better.

The remainers on the other hand don’t want to take the risk of the worst outcome happening and this country falling apart, that too is understandable. As I said leaving the EU is risky, a lot could go wrong and being afraid and wanting to prevent any chance of this makes sense. Some people and parties want to simply ignore the referendum result and cancel Brexit completely, I don’t agree with that personally, the only way democracy can survive is if it is protected and viewed above all else. If we start picking when and when not to follow democracy, we start going down a slippery slope. If that’s allowed then another thing will be allowed then another and before you know it the UK will be nothing but a dictatorship. Others want to delay Brexit until a deal can be reached, this is a more middle ground approach, obeying the result but leaving with the minimum amount of risk possible.

That sounds good doesn’t it? And it would be if politicians weren’t putting their own interests above that of the country as a whole. Instead of putting aside differences for the greater good, they all just shout and fight each other. Lib Dems are obsessed with not following democracy and ignoring what the majority of the public voted for, basically saying “We know what you said people but you’re wrong, we know what’s best so that’s what we’re gonna do”. That is not only morally wrong but flat out insulting. The SNP only give a damn about Scotland and everyone else can go rot for all they care. Tories and Labour well, they’ve both just gone mad haven’t they? Neiher of them know for certain what they want or what they’re going to do, everytime one of them does anything the other just tries to stop it at all costs, no matter what it is just because they want to get one over on the enemy. Brexit is the hardest and most dangerous thing to happen to this country since the end of WW2 and anyone of decent intelligence would realise this and do their absolute best to get us through this in the smoothest possible way. However what we’ve gotten is a house of commons full of grown adults that sound more like kids arguing in the playground.

Everyone’s looking for someone to blame, Tories, Labour, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, Nigel Farage but the truth is they’re all to blame. All political parties and every single MP have played their part in this mess. Some have done more than others but all of them must take responsibility for the shambles that is British politics today. If I had it my way, as soon as Brexit was completed, however it ends up every MP should be forced out and replaced. Perhaps that way we might just have some sensible adults representing us, which we clearly don’t have now.

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