Reading Time: 3 minutes How dare they! How could they! And who are the traitors buying this unsavoury mix? It is a mix that defies what I am and where I come from. There are not many things that I have treasured since I left England in 1984, but Christmas pudding, Manchester City, and Marmite figure high up on […]
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Socrates And The People’s Vote
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is Brexit the right thing to do because the people voted for it, or is it because Brexit is the right thing to do, that the people voted for it? For all remainers, it may be a ray of hope at the end of a dark tunnel. For the country as a […]
Brexit Musings (42) – London And Brussels Get Their Wires Crossed Over A Faulty Extension
Reading Time: 4 minutes The original extension Can someone help me with understanding the extension? I thought that I was quite knowledgeable about Brexit, having been upset, angry and frustrated for two weeks after the referendum that I couldn’t vote in, having worried for 18 months about the continuing validity of my qualification, having been forced to spend money […]
Brexit Has Become A European War Of Religion
Reading Time: 4 minutes The latest ramblings in the House of Commons just serve to emphasize what we already knew. Brexit has become a European war of religion. Like the Roman Catholics and the Huguenots, the Tudor conquest of Ireland, and the 80 years war in the Netherlands, Brexit is a religious war where dialogue is just not possible. […]
Brexit Musings (43): What Mugs We Are!
Reading Time: 3 minutes How I miss the British sense of humour, being able to joke around and make fun of everybody – including “yours truly,” of course. I would really like to thank the Facebook user who posted this video because it really made my day and got my series “Brexit Musings,” up and running […]
A Second Referendum? Why Not Make It The Best Of Three!
Reading Time: 3 minutes This post will probably amuse the few and infuriate the many. But I’m entitled to my alternate views since, having been disenfranchised for one referendum, I certainly don’t want to be disenfranchised a second time. So please spare me the embarrassment of a second EU referendum and besides, the first one was bad enough. Putting […]
2016 And All That: The Rise And Fall Of “Homo brexitus”
Reading Time: 7 minutes In 2016, the UK witnessed the appearance of a new “species” of citizen – Homo brexitus. I certainly do not use this description in a pejorative way. It’s just a term that I found useful – before the Guardian did – to describe the citizens of my motherland who “fell out of love” with the […]
“Just A Minute” – Two Years To Talk About Brexit Without Hesitation, Repetition Or Deviation!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Brexit is so blank, just anybody can talk about it without hesitation, repetition or deviation, and still not know what the hell they’re going on about. Rumours have it that Brexit day may be delayed for up to two years, which will give dear old Theresa May enough time to hold as many general […]
Brexit Musings (41) – Hell’s Bells
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve been wondering what the special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan. – Donald Tusk, European Council The Guardian was as quick to latch on to Donald Tusk’s rather unfortunate comment as you and I would be, in trying to escape being […]
Spot And Stop That Lorry: “Irish Border 2.0” (PS4 and XBox)
Reading Time: 5 minutes Although Theresa May has scarpered and Boris Johnson is ready to take over, Brexit is still with us. Brexit and the Irish border. Time to update my juvenile solution to the Irish question. There seems to be two basic problems with the thorny question of the Irish border. In the same way that […]