The B word

So that was Brexit. Bye, bye Britain. Off you go. You're no longer a member of the EU community.

I still find it difficult to comprehend how so many people voted to Leave. Maybe they blamed Europe for the mass immigration of foreigners to the UK. If so, they were wrong to do so. Or maybe they fell for the lies and propaganda dished out by Cummings, Farage and the right-wing gutter press. Or maybe they believed Johnson's lies about 'taking back control' when control hadn't been lost, or 'getting Brexit done' when it would actually take months or maybe years to get 'done'. Or maybe many Englanders still have a narrow-minded island mentality and simply don't trust Johnny Foreigner, but they do trust Johnny English even though he's a proven liar. Note I said 'Englanders' - Scotland and Northern Ireland both voted Remain while Wales strangely voted Leave even though they benefitted hugely from European subsidies. Talk about turkeys voting for Christmas!

Anyways..., in the weeks leading up to the pre-Christmas general election I posted numerous messages on Facebook and Twitter advising people of the many negative aspects and dangers of voting Tory, and therefore the crass stupidity of 'getting Brexit done'. What I didn't realise though, was that many of my Facebook 'friends' were Tory Leavers while I'm a Labour Remainer. To put it bluntly, I then received some fairly unfriendly messages from chums I'd known a long time. That was when I fully understood what people meant by 'a divided nation'. Great shame, but I've now lost about a dozen or so old pals just because of my anti-Tory and anti-Brexit political leanings. And as for Liar Johnson suggesting that it's time for the healing to begin, well, that suggests he doesn't have even the remotest idea how angry we Remainers actually are.

Anyway, it's done. Now all we Brit exiles scattered throughout Europe have to worry about is our healthcare. Er, and our pensions. Oh, and the exchange rate. And, of course, the nagging worry that we may be booted out of whichever countries we reside in and ordered back to the UK, sorry, K. And that raises other problems such as selling up - if all Euro Brits suddenly put their homes up for sale the market will be flooded and nobody will be buying so the prices will bomb and the houses will probably be unsellable so we'll have no dosh to buy anything in Blighty where prices are over-inflated and sky-high anyway. Disaster. But Liar Johnson and Evil Cummings probably won't want us to return because most of us are retired and we'd be an added burden on the NHS, the Social Services, the free foodbanks, council housing, funeral parlours, Alcoholics Anonymous, etc., etc.

Or..., maybe everything will be okay. We'll see.