Brexit: waiting for Armageddon

And so to Brexit.

 

‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive…..’

 

To the evident astonishment of the establishment the world was the same on 24^th June as it was on 23^rd. Brexit did not suddenly consign us all to a post-EU Siberia.

 

The media got it wrong, as did the pollsters (no surprise there, then). At the end of the day, they mostly climbed aboard the ‘leave’ bandwagon, apart from the BBC which clung to ‘remain’ even as the ship went down.

 

They predicted the immediate collapse of the UK economy, since when the FTSE has roared away. Incomes are rising, especially for the lowest paid. The number of people in employment is at a record level. Unemployment is about as low as it gets.

 

‘But’ they say ‘The GBP has tanked against the USD’. About the same level as 2001.. ‘And house prices are falling’. In London, perhaps, where the average house price is 6 times that of Liverpool. The downside of falling prices is that it slows the construction industry, but the upside is for first-time buyers who ae unable to get on the housing ladder.

 

At exactly the same time as the commentators were telling us that the economy was in freefall and we were all doomed, the Bank of England was announcing that Brexit had had no marked effect on the economy.

 

But an unexpected outcome has been the virulence from the ‘stayers’.

 

Here is the view of a student who has yet to contribute anything to the society that has given him his advantages at the expense of taxpayers comprising the white geriatric morons who voted ‘leave’.

 

‘The pale, old, white and stale majority with one eye on ruddy-faced patriotism, have opted for isolation over unity’.

 

This is Giles Coren of the Times as reported by ‘The Oldie magazine’:

 

‘The wrinkly bastards stitched us young ‘uns up good and proper. From their stair-lifts and Zimmer-frames, their electric recliner beds, and their walk-in baths, they reached out with their wizened old writing hands to make their wobbly crosses and screwed their children and their children’s’ children for a thousand generations’.

 

Well, young men, if you had got off your arses to vote the result may have been more to your liking. The over-50s knuckle-draggers did just that.

 

And no, they are not a bunch of geriatric racists who were voting against immigration. The polls show that the main issue was the nature of the EU itself, loftily undemocratic and run by an arrogant bureaucracy. The British do not take kindly to being bossed around and told what to do by jobsworths, especially foreign ones.