And you may ask yourself, how did I get here? (Same as it ever was…)
By: Duncan Poundcake
Tags: Brexit, European Union, Boris Johnson

Bozza searching his pockets for the £350m a week he promised…

“And so the time is near and I face my final curtain” sings Brexit…

The terminally dull national hysteria pantomime that has performed daily for 4 and half years is finally taking its final bows as it enters stage right and falls into the North Sea.

Spaffer Johnson has finally admitted in the last few days what most knew, the end game for his ERG chums has birthed, there will be No Deal. The perpetually idiotic BBC et al, seem to be amazed by this revelation and the complete unpreparedness of UK negotiators in Brussels. One wonders which particular smuggeratti watering holes these hacks have been hiding in. All that vastly privileged education and they are still so stupid. The problem with Brexit was never Brexit per se but the direction we decided to take, the planning and who was responsible for putting it all together.

I voted Leave. I don’t regret voting Leave. I detest Neo-Liberalism and the EU is Neo-Liberalism personified in a designer wolf suit...

The idea of a De Lors Social Europe evaporated when the Single Market and Eurozone was formed, anchored when a constitution for a Free Market Globalised Capitalist Trade Body was agreed. This had one purpose in its design; make life easy for capital, not the citizens of Europe. You only have to ask the Greeks how vindictive this proved to be. The sacrifice of sovereign currencies on the altar of running economies like a household, was possibly the biggest con job politicians have pulled in Europe since Hitler got the top job in 1933.

The Leave I envisioned, was one where a Labour Party, led by Corbyn, would honour the decision and allow the UK to take control of its economy. Regulate Capitalism. Oversee a home grown manufacturing renaissance, bring jobs back and allow the state to spend money where it wanted to and take control of enterprise where appropriate, without asking the permission of anyone. I was well aware that the stakes were high and the right wing of the Tory party were using Brexit like a Trojan Horse but it was a once in a generation opportunity to change direction.

Should I stay or should I go now? I do there could be trouble. If I don’t there could be double..

Unfortunately, the Labour Party never communicated this succinctly under the banner of Lexit.

They didn’t explain what a Lexit would look like under a Corbyn Government, nor how they would mitigate the problems leaving the EU would inevitably cause.

As 2019 demonstrated, this proved to be a monumentally fatal error that did for Labour. Its worth noting that in 2017 General Election, the nation voted 80% plus for parties that supported the 2016 Referendum result. In 2019, as soon as Labour moved away from honouring the result of the referendum, it lost to the Conservatives who were consistent in the desire to leave the EU. Yes there were shenanigans with Russians and Cambridge Analytics but no-one who ever cried foul, has ever been able to answer the simple question: ‘Demonstrate how this actually influenced how people voted in the Referendum in 2016?’ They have no answer to this, only an assumption, mainly as no one from Remain has bothered to find out. Three times since 2016, the British public were asked and three times they said directly - or indirectly - Leave. The Northern Labour constituencies in particular sent Labour a message in 2019. Leave.

As COVID has shown us, the lies we were told for 10 years; that the Government doesn’t have any money, spending would cause inflation, we can’t afford it, have been laid bare.

Any Sovereign Currency Issuer has massive fiscal resources to pump into the economy be it purchasing, direct funding, keeping money moving round the economy and business afloat. Which is exactly what has happened.

What if…

“Hands up. Baby hands up. I fucked it up”…

The UK does default to WTO rules, then the Government can mitigate the impact of any tariffs by reimburse business any tariffs they endure post Brexit. Even better it is non-inflationary. It does a straight replacement of currency that leaks out of the economy and allows business to keep their prices down, which results in keeping a lid on inflation.

We could rebuild manufacturing in the UK and start to manufacture all those components we buy abroad but could easily at home? As a plus creating employment.

We could invest in farming and grow more of own food that we could grow but don’t, preferring to import? As a plus creating employment.

We could invite companies to relocate to the UK but insist they use UK labour and manufacture their components here and not abroad? As a plus, creating employment.

We should have an economic plan post Brexit, identifying the problems, the gaps where and what to invest in and how best to use our new found independence to rebuild the UK industry? As a plus creating employment.

It’s not a comprehensive list and it doesn’t address all the problems but you get the picture. It’s not rocket science. There is a huge amount of potential if the political vision and will was there. Economic nationalism, isn’t a bad thing.

Of course neither May or Johnson even thought about any of the above and we are where we are.

Woefully ill-prepared with economic shocks queuing up for the ferry at Calais to join the fast sinking COVID economy of 2020.

Ferry timetable for the arrival of The Four Horsemen of Chaos…

Which takes me back to where I began. When you walk out of your front door you have two choices of direction to get to your destination. Turn left or to turn right.

Unfortunately, the UK will be dragged to an even lower wage, free market, tax dodging haven in the middle of the Atlantic up for sale to the highest bidder.

Of course the irony is that those who wave the Union Jack the fiercest and the loudest are the very ones who have sold the nation down the river. We may won the war in 1945 but we lost the battle.