Just do not have to pretend, like some political scientists, that everything that happens with Brexitis is, like, "a vivid expression of democracy." Because no. This brexit is a natural hell, where politicians who are incapable of deciding anything rule it; it is a hell of ambition, resentment, pettiness and impotence of the ruling elites of Europe and Britain.
For three years now all of us have been plagued by this Brexit, and there is no end and end to this.
The very idea of Brexit looks bad, it smells bad and, most likely, it is bad. Local politicians began this conversation to somehow blackmail Brussels, Paris and Berlin. But no one thought what would happen if the exit still matured.
Britain has been a member of the European Economic Community since 1973, when the EU was not yet. The exit will bring the country a long economic downturn, rising prices, unemployment, the loss of a huge part of European investment.
Prime Minister Cameron (damn the one who told him that he is a politician) began the referendum on leaving the EU in 2016 with a crooked smirk to show who is the boss and to stop talking about leaving in principle. He, like his political cryptorhi comrades, was brazenly confident that the British would vote as he sees fit. Yeah. 52% for Brexit do not want?
And the stupidest thing is that no one was ready for such an option. What self-confidence.
And since then, they are all looking for a good solution for Brexit. A contract that will suit someone. It turned out to be impossible. The search term was allocated until March 29, 2019 - more than two years. And now for the third year we see some endless series in which an outside observer does not understand anything and does not even want to, because he is already sick of the British political theater, where everyone changes with all the roles in the manner of the old swingers, they push new laws , smuggle anti-laws in defiance of the just adopted, organize blocs, crush the parties - and this whole holiday of democracy is paid for by a simple English hard worker who has long been spit on.
Gentlemen, like, are looking for a “good solution” to soften the blow to the British economy. Do not bother gentlemen to think. One already thought and thought, and flew out of the prime minister’s place.
This is briefly.
Now this whole topic is grinding the new prime minister, Boris Johnson, who was nothing of the mayor. And on all other posts, only Zhanna Nemtsova can impress.
He thought that he would manage to give a cool one and leave the EU in the next month without any deals. He tried to play these games with the parliament, but he also failed to do anything, because the queen had just approved the bill (Benn-Bill) that now leaving the EU “without a deal” becomes completely illegal. And everything stretches until January 31, 2020.
And Johnson lost on all fronts. He was not helped by the idea of defeating parliament and announcing new elections.
Yesterday, even the speaker of the House of Commons announced that he plans to resign after the announcement of early elections. If the bill with early elections is not adopted before October 31, then John Birkou will leave office. Most of all, Birkow was remembered for his personal intifada against Brexit. In theory, the speaker of the House of Commons should be neutral to all bills. Birkou scored more than once on this principle. In the eyes of the opponents of Brexit, Birkow turned into the hero of Resistance.
But there is no sense in anything, including in the new elections. The queen said: no deal - no way out.
But the funny thing is that the deal is an illusory concept. The fruit of a bureaucratic nightmare. Well, judge for yourself.
At the very least, in disputes with Brussels, we agreed on how exactly after the exit between the island and the mainland goods, people, capital will move. But for the umpteenth time in history, the Irish have blown up the world, who, by the heat of problems, can give odds even to Israelis.
On the island of Ireland between Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, a member of the EU, is the only piece of the land border of Britain. Both Britain and the EU agree that physically closing this piece of the border is an ugly idea. Because the fragile world can collapse at any moment - and the IRA will again take up the old. The peace agreement (1998) between the kingdom and Ireland, which was literally blood, was signed only because both countries became members of the European Union.
Then they decided not to physically close the border. Monitor the traffic of goods and people, the compliance of goods with EU standards, electronically charge duties and so on.
It even looks ridiculous to wise men from the EU. Then they came up with Backstop (backstop) - like, if anything, then the border will be closed for real. To which the European said that they would announce a moratorium on the use of Backstop for two years in any way. To have time to come up with a real way out. And if not? Then backstop again, border guards, dogs and rectal examination.
But it seems to me that this problem is not being honestly solved. This means that there will again be delays and some hypocritical measures. Draw the curtains and swing the car to feel movement. It is so European.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.