I'm Changing My Name to "BoB"!

I'm now called BoB - I'm going to make it official, change it by deed poll. BoB - Bored of Brexit!

It is already a lifetime ago that Theresa May declared Article 50 and we started down the Brexit highway, a journey which was supposed to take us to the Nirvana of self-determination, economic prosperity and world leading status. Now three months from the supposed end of the journey it has become something else altogether. We have reached a point now where no one can agree on anything so a new strategy seems to have emerged - politicians are now to relentlessly bore us all to the point that no matter what is put in front of us, we will fling our hands in the air and fall to our knees wholeheartedly agreeing to it. The Prime Minister is now going back to Europe (after fending of a leadership challenge) in an attempt to get a better deal or more reassurances and will probably sign us up to The Viking Economic Area Plus, in which our children will be sold as galley slaves to Norway and we will all say "YES! - Just hurry up and sign it if it means that Brexit is over!"

You can't escape Brexit, every single paper, magazine and TV programme has to include some meaningless discussion on it. None of the endless discussion or editorial is adding anything or changing anyone's opinions. There are no new solutions either, the Northern Ireland backstop arrangements are fully illustrative of this. We don't want to have a hard border between the E.U. and Northern Ireland, so instead of having one we will do all the things you do at a border but do them a few miles from the border?! That sounds to me like a half cooked proposal that you might hear on the Apprentice just before Alan Sugar fires everybody, but it is exactly one solution which has been proposed!

Of course we could just crash out of the EU, flood the channel tunnel and join the WTO. Let's set aside the fact the WIO at the moment is apart (due to the US walking away) and that Moldova and a host of other countries have vetoed our membership before we have even asked to join, but wasn't the idea that we were taking back control? Instead of the EU sticking their noses into our business, that "unaccountable" and "bureaucratic" EU, we would now be handing control to the WTO, to which we send no elected representatives or commissioners. That's alright though because we all know who the WTO are, where they are, how they work and how good they are at resolving disputes!

Maybe we could keep having referendums and dividing the country more and more until the union is dissolved and we become a collection of independent nations and regions based on Remain or Leave. Even cancelling Brexit at all is too much effort to contemplate and would be sure to prolong the downward spiral into a generational affair.

So we must be resigned to the fact that now the genie is out of the bottle that we will be subjected to this relentless discussion until we are all induced into a Brexit coma. That however could be the ideal solution, then the country could be taken over by the Faeroe Islands and we wouldn't have to care anymore.

In the end it doesn't matter which type of Brexit we end up with, whether it is hard, soft, over easy or sunny side up it will be a 'betrayal' to a large section of us as it is so divisive. I believe now however that the majority of us are now just like me - exhausted by it all and generally Bored of Brexit!



Note: This article was sent by post to @barge, who OCR'ed and then uploaded it. This introductory post by @themightysquid may help to clarify (a little) why it is necessarily so. Comments are welcome, but TMS won't be able to respond immediately as any correspondence will take place by snail-mail.

Thanks for reading!
@barge obo TMS