Welp...so how's the UK doing as of lately?
Due to illnes, I've watched more youtube than normally, but even so it seems like the pace of deteriation is increasing.
I mean, look...last month it was the truck driver shortage. Has it been solved? No. Rather the contrary: now there's fuel shortages on top of those. Not throughout the UK, of course, but hardly insignificant (unless youtube commenters like to troll being victims while they aren't).
Direct consequence: in Northern Ireland, the protocol is more popular than ever. One even joked a recent held poll showed its popularity at a landslide percentage: 52%! So by brexit logic, all attempts to thwart and overturn this aspect of the oven ready deal should be terminated immediately because "the people have spoken" and...erm...something, something Democracy.
A few days ago, news got out of an actual brexit benefit. Not some half assed one either: it was about a law that couldn't be passed while under EU laws because that bureaucratic bunch has laws preventing passing of such laws.
I'm talking about water pollution, of course. No longer part of the EU? Here's a law proposal that allows UK firms to dump more waste into nearby rivers.
Oh, right: the benefit's only really applies to UK factory owners. Guess I should've mentioned that earlier.
And meanwhile on the actual news there's the report of the upcoming fishing wars with France. What I make of it, that same "oven ready" deal included a clausule that would allow French fishers into UK waters, provided they got a permit.
The thing is: the UK isn't keen on handing out those permits, limiting their supply.
French fishers ain't happy with that at all, and now Macron's forced to act in kind. That is: until the dispute's settled, UK fishermen in French waters will get the same treaty. So it sounds like a political paper scheme rather than a war, but I wonder if both sides' media will report on the situation fairly or will miss out information in order to play the victim (I'm looking at you, UK).
...but even that's really small news. Y'all know me: I don't generally link every youtube channel I see. Guess this counts as an exception, because...well...James O'Brian just nails it so hard it hurts:
Why? Because the (I quote)
"Office for Budget Responsibility has said the impact of Brexit on the economy will be worse than that caused by the ronavirus pandemic". As in: brexit's going to cost roughly twice what covid's costing the country.
Twice. The. Cost. Of. The. Covid-19. Pandemic.
Let that sink in and pretend that brexit is anything but a collossal failure.
Now I'd be pissed as well if I were a UK resident right now. All the remain voters have been ridiculed, marginalized and made out for crybabies and pessimists. All while being one hundred procent correct in the assesments. Brexiteers still think things like "sovereignty", "take back control" and "independence" is somehow more than a hollow phrase. That will lead to clashes.
In fact, that youtube video is downright firework. That caller just expects to be treated with respect, as if "I have a different opinion" somehow merits that. It doesn't. The news the UK will be MUCH worse off outside the EU gets James angry. And I've got to be honest: I wouldn't want to be on his bad side on this. He just chews up the caller and spits him out. Just not literally.
And frankly, I don't know why other brexiteers deserve any better treatment in the press.
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