Isle of Dreams

Zac Beauchamp provides a good summary (though lengthy) of the impossible twist of the knickers the Brits have gotten themselves into. The Brexit referendum only passed in the first place because its proponents lied to the voters. Even so, it depended on xenophobia and racism to attract a majority. Because it was premised on lies, it is literally impossible to produce the result that proponents promised, and are still pretending to demand.I don ' t want to belabor the details here, some of which I have discussed before. The Ireland-Northern Ireland border problem is insoluble, as is the problem of British citizens living on the continent and continentals with indispensable jobs in Britain. So is the problem of not having trade agreements in place that will allow commerce to continue after March 29, and the " just in time " inventory practices of British manufacturers, and a whole lot else. But the posturing of Brexit proponents is driving the country toward catastrophe -- not to mention dissolution. The secession of Scotland is a likely outcome as well.Astonishingly, the Brexit proponents are continuing to pretend that everything will be just fine on March 29. The mentality of people who stand on the beach and insist that the tide will not come in is incomprehensible to me. Reality will occur on that date. This is comparable to the insistence of U.S. wingnuts that Robert Mueller ' s got nuffin. Actually what we already know is plenty, but there will be an empirical test of wha...

Source: Stayin' Alive - January 16, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs