It's 201 days since the referendum and I'm at a loss to see any improvement in the country's prospects for the future. As for the present, we can see some price rises beginning to appear and our currency has been effectively devalued as a direct consequence of the poll result. Beyond that, the government's failure to repudiate the nonsense from the media insisting that such a result should immediately be enshrined as government policy has further damaged public confidence and the economic outlook.
Shouldn't someone in government now actually spell it out - state the case for 'Brexit'? The nation deserves to know, not what might be or what could possibly be the outcome, but what will actually be the position should we exit the EU. They have had 201 days to prepare.
It's time people stopped simply accepting the painfully repeated soundbites from the most ineffectual PM I can remember since Douglas-Home and demand from their MPs that we be furnished with a detailed manifesto for a post-'Brexit' age. If they cannot provide that then the whole matter should be scrapped as, clearly, it would be a step into the unknown and would imperil the nation.
Those of us who support and advocate the continuation of our membership of the EU have known from the outset that, almost certainly, the risks of leaving far outweigh the complaints some have levelled at our continuing membership. If the 'leave' camp didn't know last June, there can be no doubt now that the government hasn't a clue what it is doing in regard to 'Brexit'. All the evidence suggests we will be simply a faded imperialist power, isolated in the modern world, while begging for deals from nations which owe us nothing, just so we can survive.
The days of colonisation are long since gone yet there are are still some who take great joy from silly songs about 'ruling the waves' and such like. We don't rule very much at all these days and if we don't stop imagining we are an important world power, as a nation we will very soon be unable to trade anywhere other than the world's charity shops and street markets in terms of global commerce.
The population of the UK was lied to and gulled repeatedly by Blair, then Cameron not so long ago and that has since cost this country vast sums of money, not to mention the loss of a great many of our young people in military service. We have more recently been lied to again by politicians so why are we allowing them to lead us into what will seem little different from military conflict for a great many of our people?
Tom
