The UK seems to be surviving the initial Brexit shockwaves and the doom predicted by the Leave campaign have turned out to be pathetic lies which were spread in an attempt to sway the vote. It deserved to fail.
I think that you mean the
Remain campaign; however, be that as it may (or may not), whilst both campaigns spread lies and fear, the Leave one did far more of both than the Remain one.
Yes, UK is surviving, though not without some negative consequences (particularly to the value of its currency), but that's largely becuse nothing has yet happened to initiate procedures necessary to commence negotiations for Brexit; the longer that remains the case, the longer UK might be able to continue to survive without much worsening of its situation.
Theresa May has made it very clear that Brexit means Brexit
She's made a mockery of herself by establishing this utterly meaningless phrase; whatever Brexit might mean, the only thing that's "clear" is that it doesn't mean the same to everyone, irrespective of whether or not they favour it as a matter of general principle. As I've stated before, however, she might as well have said "Breakfast means Breakfast" (as has been suggested elsewhere), or "Beanz meanz Heinz" or even "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" for all the meaning that she has imparted by its wearisomely repeated use.
all these silly court cases will come to nothing
They might, but neither you nor I nor anyone else including the various judges, prosecution or defence in any of them can any more know that in advance than they can with any other court case. Whatever happened to "innocent until proved guilty", for example? - surely one of the well enshrined judicial principles of which you approve...
One thing is certain, however, which is that no self-respecting judge would agree to try a case if he/she considered it in advance to be vexatious, without merit and therefore a waste of valuable court time, yet judges
have expressed willingness to try these cases rather than reject them out of hand; judges cannot usually be forced to try cases against their will or better judgement.
You mention only the court cases but not the petition that is due for Parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall next Monday; whilst I have little doubt that this will not succeed (and I do not in any case believe that a second referendum, even under the appropriately far stricter parameters called for by the petitioner, is the right way to address the problems left in the wake of the referendum), how "silly" could you reasonably call a petition that has to date attracted as many as 4,144,072 signatures, a number equivalent to almost 10% of the entire UK electorate?
Wisely, she is also making immigration control a red line in our departure negotiation. This is very wise, but she is going to have a tough time ahead.
As with all else in this ongoing shambles, we do not yet know what if anything she proposes to try to do - or indeed can or could do - about immigration, or indeed about the security of tenure of immigrants already living in UK and, at the same time, the rights of UK citizens living elsewhere in EU to continue to do so. I am an immigrant myself (albeit from within UK), but I do not expect the government to issue marching orders to me to return to Scotland and deport me there at the UK taxpayers' expense should Scotland become independent of UK.
Where Ms May has so far been wise, however, is in her continued and apparently determined pragmatism and her evident refusal to be rushed into something that has not been thought through in advance as should have been the case. Frankly, I doubt very much that, had she been Primie Minister at the time of the last UK General Election, she would have included a referendum on this matter in her party's manifesto.
It is indeed true, as you note, that she'll have a tough time ahead of her, but then so will her successor - unless she remains in Prime Ministerial office - following the next General Election which, at the very latest, must be held by the first half of 2020, by which time Brexit negotiations and procedures will still be continuing (if indeed they ever commence) and UK will therefore still be an EU member state; should the Conservative Party fail to win that election and should whichever party wins instead have pledged in its manifesto to overturn Brexit (if procedures towards it have been commenced), what then?
Ms May is also no doubt duly and wisely cognisant of her responsibilities to hold back on Brexit for the foreseeable future in view not only of the forthcoming petition debate and various court cases but also in the light of the elections next year in France, Germany and Netherlands whose outcomes might well put a new complexion on EU and accordingly impact upon what she and her government decide to do, when and how (if indeed at all) about Brexit.
As for the increasing "racist attacks", this is left wing horseshit.
Tell that to anyone who has been a victim of them, or to any police officer who has been called out in response to any of them! No wings, no horses (even police horses) and no sh*t, just plain facts. In terms of numbers of reported cases that are now on official record, it is clear that Poles have had rather more of this than any other group (and one of them has now been murdered), but perhaps this is unsurprising as a statistic given that approximately 1 in every 8 people living in UK is Polish and that there are more Polish immigrants in UK than immigrants from anywhere else.
The British people are noted for their tolerance and considering the amount of EU citizens working in this Country, the attacks and abuse are microscopically small and anyone that suggests otherwise and who is blind to the attacks against British citizens from foreigners are left wing trash.
Much of this is true, of course (although I did not refer to racist attacks on UK citizens living in other countries), but the fact remains that, in the aftermath of the opinion poll, such racist attacks (especially against Poles) did increase; that is officially documented at least in terms of cases that have been reported to the police.
The Scots will carry on being leeches, but hopefully, not off the English.
The Scots, including me, will carry on being
Scots, although some of us might well consider, as indeed I will, applying for dual UK/Scottish citizenship in the event that Scotland secedes from UK in order to remain an EU member state in its own right (which I neverhtless hope will not become necessary); given the indebtedness of every nation to every other that I mentioned upthread, however, every nation leeches off every other one; in our incresingly globalised and interconnected world, that's the way the international economic cookie crumbles, Thal.
Best,
Alistair
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