Brexit

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This made me laugh from the current Private Eye.

Person in Millets anorak solves Brexit.


There was widespread joy today, as a bloke interviewed on the Ten O'clock news, standing next to a fruit and veg stall, solved Brexit by telling politicians to "pull their bloody fingers out and just get on with it".

Instant relief was felt across Whitehall, as politicians from every party suddenly realised that the answer to sorting Brexit was simple, whereas previously they'd thought that it was a complex and multi layered conundrum.

Seconds after they all "pulled their fingers out and just got on with it" Brexit was solved, hundreds of thousands of jobs in the aerospace and car industries were saved. British farmers received tariff free entry into the Common Market and the immigration status of hundreds of thousands of British citizens resident in the EU was sorted with no fuss at all.

"We really don't know why we didn't just pull our bloody fingers out and get on with it months ago" all the politicians agreed. "Why didn't we realise it was that easy?"

But Mark, Millets bloke is right. The government timeline should have been to the EU: do you want a free trade deal? If the EU says no then the government prepares to leave in two years with its own agenda. The prime minister prepares the path for how WE will operate after two years and tells business exactly what laws etc will be in place. Then everybody can prepare for what's to come.


Instead we've a bunch of losers dragging things out because they're in tow to the EU. We don't need the permission of the EU to exist. They are not our masters. We can make our own destiny and with the right leadership make a success of it.