Brexit - The Final Reckoning

Day 2 of all our sovereignty....... what are you guys doing with all yours today
? I’m taking mine out for a walk with the wife & kids and the dog 🐕. If I see any forineeeers I’m going to ram it down their throats 🇬🇧

Socialism is all very good until they run out of other people’s money.

Margaret Thatcher. Probably the greatest Prime Minister since Winston Churchill.

It really really isn’t. Make no mistake the plight of young people in this country is going to highlight that in due course if it hasn’t already. For those of the boomer generation who had some opportunities today’s young haven’t been afforded and profited from yeah I can see they probably think they have got it whipped living in Britain but you have to look outside your own world view and comforts to see the social issues coming up the tracks, not least high cost of living vs wages so sh** that the government has to spend 12 billion a year making sure they can be housed because their wages won’t cover food, heating and housing adequately. That doesn’t seem to me to the sign of a fully functioning economy. And that’s just for starters, we could move on to talk about food banks etc.

Then there is the social issue in general that Covid has highlighted of how venal our government is (as evidenced but the office of auditing findings that Yatton Gas posted about) and how the people of this country when push came to shove rebelled against Covid measures where other countries got behind them and saw them as being for the greater good. Instead we painted our faces blue and white and gave it the old “FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOM!” bollocks, everyone a little Braveheart acting like they are upholding some fine British tradition of civil disobedience even though it’s a flaming pandemic and asserting your freedoms for no other reason than “just because” is a highly idiotic thing to be doing.

Ultimately Britain has got problems because from the average man on the street corner all the way up to the plank in Downing Street we’re a nation of selfish assholes who are in it for themselves and couldn’t give a monkey’s about the wider social issues that are serious dangers to British society because the standard refrain across the country is “hey, as long as I’m alright Jack!”. Absolutely nothing to be proud of.

And before people come back with the “hurr durr why don’t you leave then?” well you’ve voted to take that away!

Shhhh...don't tell Sunak Oldgas😉

SO basically what you’re saying is that Britain is a ah1t place to live, the main reason being that from the average man on the street to the plank in Downing Street we’re a bunch of selfish assholes, the worst in the world.

Simple then really. Quite clearly, we’re doomed. You should have taken the opportunity to leave before 31st December 2020.

It’s circumspect that you aren’t bothering to try and debate the issues raised, instead resorting to trite comebacks. I’ve said before I would have gone already if jobs were plentiful in Spain. The U.K has to be thankful in a sense that unemployment is so high in Spain because if jobs were ten a penny over there a lot more Brits who have very little to look forward to in the U.K. in terms of prospects would have left for Spain by now as the cheaper cost of living, high ex-pat count and ability to use English to get by would be quite attractive I’m sure.

The best countries to move to right now are the Scandinavian countries who seem to have a far more progressive outlook, low income inequality and high identifications of happiness among it’s citizens but there are cultural issues there and of course the language which creates a high barrier to entry for someone from England looking to relocate. The U.K. is a dinosaur on the world stage in the grand scheme of things. Europe is discussing the UBI but we continue to myopically stumble on under conservative values of working people of low privilege to the bone and having no sort of plan for when the jobs those people do are replaced by automation. Hopefully the dinosaurs in charge will be extinct by the end of the decade and we can start to shift our focus because our implantation of capitalism is dying and we need to be part of the conversation with Europe about how we adapt.

So are you saying the government are wrong in trying to ease people's financial pain through this pandemic. And as for sarcastic comments about the Tories spending more than Labour, please be honest with me and yourself and estimate whether Labour spending would have been less over that same period.