We are such an innovative and resilient nation, if we can stop the bickering! Brexit is whatever we make it!

I am sick to my teeth of reading about the recrimination! All our energy should have gone towards blocking David Cameron from initiating a pointless referendum, when it was so clear to any sane, educated human being, that Brexit in whatever form it took, would be horrendous to begin with, as the EU will make it as painful as possible for us. I mean, what else could anyone expect? The EU countries feel slighted. Many of them wish they were the ones exiting the EU and that doubles their bitterness towards the UK. Just imagine, if you really quietly wanted something and then your neighbour got it and you can’t…

The reality is that nobody knew what the full impact will be – and I doubt anybody knows now either. They are all finding out with each day. That is indeed very bad for businesses, which need to know what to plan for. But the sad thing is that both sides (those who opposed and those who supported Brexit) do not know either. But what was certain, was that the first few years would be tough and as such, was it ever going to be worth all that pain? Just for a bunch of poorly educated Brits to say ”we got our country back”, while they are the ones who will suffer the detriment most, but are not clever enough to know that. But when they begin to suffer the impact, they will of course blame that on refugees and immigrants who are always of course responsible for all our problems. And those who know better – politicians – fan the flames and exploit the illiterates in that belief, to exert control over them and get their vote. As a nation, are we not resilient enough to cater for our people? the simple answer is: YES we are. Should a few thousands of refugees crossing the channel on boats be enough to cripple our economy and destroy our country? we all know the answer is NO. Instead of focusing on processing them speedily, expelling the bogus ones, integrating the ones we deem genuine and getting them to imbibe the British way, we waste resources on hateful plans such as creating a hostile environment or shipping them to Rwanda, daftly thinking those will deter them, while the hate builds up incrementally within the country, further wasting energy that could be devoted elsewhere. Unfortunately, this idiocy has now become so pervasive and it has become a potent vote-gathering ploy…

Back to Brexit: the referendum is done and the LEAVE vote won. Whether we like it or not, that was the outcome. Continuing to wast energy and resourcing in trying to prove that it was a wrong decision, is counterproductive. Trying to undermine it or change it, is disingenuous. If we can just concentrate on fixing whatever needs fixing to make the detrimental aspects of Brexit less painful and just get on with it, it will be whatever it is! I was sat on the much longer non-EU queue at the airport in Sweden recently and you deal with it! it is what the country chose and the long queues in Dover this past week, as the French try to exert as much more pain on us as possible, is what it is. Continuing to blame Brexit and say we are victims and it is so bad for us, is a waste of time. Nobody saw Covid coming, and that has had a profound impact too. We need to stop the bickering and get on with it!

If we didn’t want Brexit, we should have prevented the dumb referendum. We didn’t. Wasting time and energy opposing Brexit and building up more negativity isn’t helping anyone. We need to move on, get on with it. Accept there will be some hardship, get on with it. Use or innovativeness and resourcefulness to make the best of it and it will all be fine! If the EU was such a great thing to be part of, they should just get on with enjoying their great thing and stop trying to make us pay for leaving. Unfortunately, it would seem that the EU feel that the only way to show they have a good thing going for them, is by making anyone who leaves them suffer? that in itself is most unfortunate and it shows in very poor light. Yes, they had to protect themselves, as you can’t have an exclusive club if it is an open door. It will be exploited. I get that. But there is absolutely no need for the type of singular venom that the likes of Macron keeps doling out; using it as a political card to please his british-hating base, to gather votes.

Anyway, time to forget about the past and make life outside the EU work. And if it remains indefinitely painful, well, so be it. Then that is our new reality. Continuing to look back and blame Boris or whoever else sold it, is silly. Should it not have been very clear to us that nobody could have known all the details? (not even the EU know!). it is what it is! GET ON WITH IT!!!!