Suzanne Harrington: Brexit's really worked out if you don't mind the economy tanking, nurses strikes, and food poverty
I’m writing this on Brexit Day. Three years since the UK declared its splendid isolation, and made its residents all kinds of splendid promises about sunlit uplands – remember that red bus, promising to divert £350 million a week from the EU to the NHS instead? We do. And lo. Three years on, are UK residents richer, happier, freer, no longer enmeshed with those dreadful foreigners?
Well, if you look out the window today you’ll see the streets bouncing with school children, all having a day off as their teachers strike. 100,000 teachers out, their education budgets slashed, so that schools are running on unpaid overtime and bake sales. Placards saying things like If Tories Paid Taxes, Schools Would Have Glue Sticks. University lecturers have walked out too, as universities struggle without all those foreign students who pay top level fees.
