Finally, A Brexit Deal Was Done, But The Old One Was Better!
By: Byron George
Tags: UK Politics, European Union, Politics, UK, Brexit

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The announcement came on Christmas Eve and it smacked of desperation. The Johnson government has been under so much criticism lately due to its mishandling of, well almost everything from Covid to Christmas. The news has been riven with pictures of thousands of trucks stuck on the motorway and at an old airfield queuing and attempting to leave via the port at Dover. Even the announcement of some new strain of Covid was made, seemingly with glee, as if they were proud that the UK had found this new variant. That was not a clever announcement a few days before Christmas, with all those truck drivers rushing to get home across Europe. Especially while they only had days to go to agree on a deal on Brexit.

It was obvious to me, and I’m just a lowly Remoaner, as they disparagingly call us anti-Brexiters, that Europe, and more likely the right wing’s demons, those dastardly French, would immediately close the border to stop the spread of this newer, British made, version of Coronavirus. What a great faux pas, the worst of all faux pas to make when you need a negotiation to make you look good for the holiday period because you’d fucked up everything you had done since winning the election based on no other policy but getting Brexit done.

There is something about this Boris bloke that just seems to ignite hatred, maybe it’s his Trumpish policies that the neo-fascist elements of the Tory party love, or the fact that he just mocks and sneers at anyone with good ideas who might be seen to appease those nasty Europeans across the Channel. The newsreels showing over 4000 trucks plus many individuals blocking all roads into the whole county of Kent, not just the small town of Dover, must have pushed him into finalising his Brexit Trade Deal, why else would they when they had spent the last three weeks rubbishing French fishermen for wanting to continue working in British waters when after all, they had paid British companies for the licenses to fish there in the first place. It is the way this government works, play the Xenophobic card and wind up their more extremist supporters in the tabloid press, then try to make themselves look good by claiming to have invented something to benefit the world. A little like the vaccine they have approved, screaming from the headlines that we had invented it, how great and world-beating we are when it is manufactured in Belgium by a Swiss company! You couldn’t make it up, but they do make it up constantly, much like his announcement of the “world-beating track and trace system” that has never worked properly since that announcement on tv some 3 months ago.

Then, just before Christmas, they told everybody they could have a break from anti-virus lockdowns and meet their families over 5 days during the Christmas holiday, only to then announce a few days before that we all had to stay at home locked in again and not visit or mix households, thereby ruining almost everybody’s Christmas. They have put the element of fear into the people’s minds, that a simple virus that affects around 2% of the population and kills only 0.01% is deadlier than the Bubonic Plague. Admittedly, we are not the only country to do this but the argument that the shutdowns are to save the National Health Service from collapse is specious, to say the least from a party that has been doing its darndest to destroy the very concept of a health service free at the point of demand since it was formed. China, the country where it all started seems to have coped well, isolated small areas and are now enjoying freedom from it, and indeed only ever locked down one state, but who would dare say a good thing about China or follow their example, especially with the naturally racist elements of the Tories.

The nub of it all is that Boris Johnson was in desperate need of something positive in the news, and what better to get the presses rolling than a deal that he had promised since campaigning at the general election a year ago. I for one am glad that a deal has been done rather than not, but that is little compensation for leaving an ideal situation that had made all our lives better and less likely to go to war with our neighbours on the continent, which we had been doing for hundreds of years. I never had any doubts that a federal Europe was a great Europe. It made my working and living there free and easy with no need for visas or work permits, which of course has now all gone backwards. So yes, I’m happy we have some sort of peaceful deal with our neighbours, no, it is not a good deal, the one we had was far, far better. But the half of the country which believes in the fact that we now have some mythical ‘sovereignty’ back that we had never lost will make us better when the other thing that they all seem to be ecstatic about is the fact that we are no longer subject to the decisions of the European Court of Justice. The only reason for their hatred of that is because it has ruled against the Tories on a few occasions, notably in one to give British citizens a vote in elections, because they are in prison, which they’ve ignored ever since anyhow. As if that would affect any outcome! The ECJ was originally established by the UK and only ruled against British government decisions on a few judgements, but boy did those few get up the noses of the old Colonel Blimps and bastards in the Conservative Party.

Time will tell, but my guess is that we’ll be back in Europe in some form within the next thirty years. I certainly hope so because the song that is trending for the number one download for this Christmas is one million per cent true Boris Johnson is a cunt, and a proven crook and liar who threatened to have a journalist worked over in support of his school chum Darius Guppy who had been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to prison. Like his pal in the White House, he is a known grifter, but that doesn’t seem to matter to electorates these days! Unfortunately, we will have him gloating about his world-beating trade deal for three years more until we get a chance to remove him. I will be trying to leave for somewhere more pleasant in the meantime.