The consequences of Brexit

In his relatively short period as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has succeeded in making himself very unpopular, partly as a result of the government's incompetent management of the COVID pandemic. He has appointed a cabinet of incompetent ministers whose only qualification is their support for Brexit. Will he survive as Prime Minister? At present he is hanging on by a thread.

Thus, England will likely spend the next few years fighting to hold the Union together, and with fewer resources than it has enjoyed to date. In a few years the EU will have just what it wants – a smaller, poorer Britain asking for the few crumbs that the EU is prepared to give it.

So Johnson will have his Brexit. If he clings to office he will, in all probability, end up as Prime Minister of a much diminished little England and, if he is lucky, Wales. That is back to where it was in the eighteenth century. Is that really what the British people wanted when they were persuaded to vote to leave the EU? A marginalised Britain.

I expect his hero, the man he looks up to – Sir Winston Churchill – is turning in his grave at the thought of what this charlatan has done to Britain.

Sad, sad as far as I personally am concerned and all based on a lie.

I really, really hope, for Britain's sake, that I am wrong and that all will be well and that the UK will remain the strong and wealthy nation it currently is.