Bondi Vivek et all,
Nice explainer in the ToI, though a bit short on the real madness that
is Brexit. Of course I am riveted to this unfolding soap, with the
greatest surprise being for how long it's been going, and how many plot
twists happen keeping this crazy show on the road.
Brexit as an idea was already madness, and could only be sold with out
to lunch lies by out to lunch liars. But the process itself is many
times madder. Any person in her right mind could tell you that the sole
variant of Brexit is a very hard Brexit, which would spell catastrophe
and collapse for the UK. Conversely, the only alternative is staying in
the EU. In between solutions, such as the one pursued now with dodged
determination by the current government, are all impossible squaring the
circle challenges.
In one way or another comes now an end to an unhappy marriage between
the UK and the EU, a marriage which has been marred from Day One by the
UK's inability and unwillingness to understand the way the EU works. The
UK was always living in the happy delusion that the EU was an economic
arrangement to smooth up trade. But the Eu was and still is first and
foremost an instrument to avoid war in Europe - something at which it
might become decreasingly successful, but that's another story. This is
why the EU's constituting countries are driven, by default _and_ by
design, toward 'an ever closer union' - the nightmare of pure free
traders.
Many people both within and outside the UK are puzzled by the attitude
of the Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn. Seeing the trainwreck
in process why doesn't Labour push for halting the this theatre of the
absurd and simply 'remain'? Well Brexit suits Corbyn, who's never been a
EU-nist, Bruksel style, anyway, quite well. Given that he's going to be
Britain's next PM - not if, but when - he'll be able to implement his
radical social and economic reforms and policies if and only if he's
shielded from the EU Commission's prying eyes. So his plan is most
probably let Brexit happen, assuming it's going to be in the form of a
Brexit-in-nothing-but-in-name way, and then negotiate a formal re-entry
later on. Or not.
And then there is that other aspect of the current disaster-in-progress:
the unraveling of the 'United' in the Kingdom: Scotland, Wales,
'Northern' Ireland all complaining they have never been factored in
'England First and Always' policy of Theresa May regarding exiting the
EU. And right they are: they counted for zilch, since keeping some
semblance of order in the English hen coop was paramount.
Brexit is Brexit and a Mess is a Mess
Cheers, p+2D!
