Readers' Blog: British in a fine mess of their own making
As the jaw-dropping reality unfolds by the day across the Irish Sea in relation to just how bad a mess the UK has now gotten itself into with Brexit, if it wasn’t so serious not alone for the UK but also for this country, it would be almost hard to imagine how things have unfolded.
Is it any wonder that, one after the other, the ministers appointed to negotiate the Brexit deal on behalf of the UK, have jumped ship once they realised late in the day that the deal was not going to be — as Liam Fox, the business secretary predicted back then — “one of the easiest deals to conclude” (in Britain’s favour naturally) ever.
The choices that face Britain are now very stark indeed.
The infamous muck-kicked Brexit ‘can’, which by now is but a flattened piece of metal, has finally come to land in the ditch having finally run out of road.
One after the other respected, level-headed commentators from the economic and business sectors have given very clear assessments as to what the ultimate effect that a no-deal scenario would mean for the citizens of the UK, only to be derided as being out of touch and too pessimistic.
Even the great European MEP Brexiteer Nigel Farage has resigned from Ukip.
This is the very same individual who taunted the European Parliament some time ago commenting that the EU “was not laughing now” when the UK delivered a leave vote. those Brexiteers who have had a look from the top of the Brexit cliff certainly are not laughing now — indeed one suspects that they must be very worried as to how the final deal is looking from their perspective.
It is noticeable that the so-called popular media across the water have also toned down the prediction that once again the UK would be returned to its rightful place as a leader of an empire.
Finally, as stated above, its clearly obvious that those Brexit ministers who resigned discovered that in dealing with the formidable Mr Michel Barnier, they had met a person who, through his calm manner and absent nationalistic rhetoric, was more than a match for them since the Brexit dealings started.
The scene from Fawlty Towers where the German hotel guests are flabbergasted at the antics of Basil Fawlty comes to mind with the head-shaking final line, “How did they ever win the war?”
As the British prime minister is fond of quoting, “Brexit means Brexit” — indeed it does, prime minister, indeed is does.
