One of the main benefits of Brexit is that we can bring back Spangles without any interference from the EU.
Other than that it's proceeding just as it was always going to. Tory Brexit for Tory people. Fuck foreigners, poor people and bye bye NHS as we know it. 10 years is plenty of time for them to achieve every disgusting little entry on their wishlist of deregulation and privatisation.
There's a whole new section of society in Britain, urban, multicultural, creative, independent. It's something that has developed within communities that have suffered worse treatment over a longer time frame than the northern towns that turned Tory. It's the real threat to those in power, driving change in ways they can't understand or control. People empowered through identity politics now reaching the point where they're able to push against structural inequalities yet the left leavers were content to throw us under the bus and since the referendum have essentially ignored our existence, preferring too focus on the 'liberal elite', one of whom I'm yet to meet.
As an example of who/what I mean, there is a thread on Urban about Peckham Town FC. Bryan who runs the club started out running an inter estate football league many years ago. As well as having an immediate positive effect on the kids he used to help, he'd be out picking them up every weekend, mediating disputes, dealing with parents, he works at South Bank university now and even got a scholarship for players there. He's been properly beaten by police twice and maliciously prosecuted for assault on an officer yet now sits in meetings advising them. He's broken out of the role assigned to him and done it totally on his own terms and the people who see him achieve this will do the same themselves.
We're not remoaners, just people who saw what we have built being attacked and left leavers were complicit in that attack, choosing to ignore the impact on millions of people on the off chance that the EU might crumble or, despite no election being scheduled, we might have a Labour government.
That someone would trumpet any aspect of the withdrawal agreement as proof of anything is ridiculous. We're about to go into negotiations with a much more powerful organisation and to save face the government will end up using whatever leverage they think they have, including people's lives. They signaled their intentions when they tried to remove protections for child refugees but hey don't worry it'll all be Ok.We'll get a shit deal, abandon anyone who gets in the way and end up stuck between the US and China unable to defend ourselves. It's already happening with Huwei.
What's about to happen to people less able to defend themselves in this country has nothing to do with people who voted remain and continue to view it as a dangerous power grab and move to the right. I don't think those who voted leave or abstained can say the same.
I'm extra fucked off today because I met a man yesterday who is being killed by universal credit, spending his rent money on drink because he's supposed to be learning to manage his money rather than direct payment to his landlord. If remain had won it seems reasonable to believe that our next government post Cameron would have been labour, having not been held back by the remain/leave issue and he would be hopefully getting his benefits in a different format and possibly some help with addiction.
A bit rambly, probably normal for me on politics but I can't believe there are lexity people still going on as if they didn't totally fuck up their reading of the referendum and the consequences of a leave victory. The lack of self awareness is fox like.
