Three years after Brexit and the dream is in tatters. Public support has hit rock bottom. ✒️ We are covered in the scars of what it has done to this country. And those scars are not healing. We will live with them for a very long time. 🔵 IanDunt
Nor can we measure the way Brexit allowed for a new breed of political charlatan to take centre stage, peddling preposterous fictional solutions to problems they largely invented, from Boris Johnson to Jacob Rees-Mogg. Or how this new charlatanism became so severe that it placed someone like Liz Truss in office,But the deepest scar is the one we talk about the least. It is distraction.
Speaking on the BBC yesterday, leading Brexiteer Daniel Hannan tried to put a brave face on it. Brexit, he said, had allowed us to secure a vaccine, support Ukraine, deregulate and sign a trade deal with Australia. It was the usual tired jumble of nothingness. The vaccine operation had nothing to do with EU membership and was anyway followed weeks later on the continent. The war in Ukraine has precisely zero connection to Brexit. Our deregulation agenda is based on the scorched earth lunacy of the Retained EU Law Bill. And our agreement with Australia wasBack in the fevered days of 2016, Hannan could have gotten away with it. He’d have been loudly supported by the Leave partisans.
This is why the polling on Brexit has travelled in one direction and one direction only. There is no mystery to it. It is quite simple: the project has achieved nothing. Someday soon, probably not more than a few years from now, it will be hard to even find people who admit to ever having supported it in the first place. It will join Suez and Iraq in the great pantheon of catastrophic British errors. But as its support ebbs away, we’ll still be left with the scars.
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