Okay, so there’s an article in the Sun about how much money we can save post Brexit on various everyday items (and less everyday items, unless you buy a new pair of trainers on a far too regular basis), assuming we aren’t in a customs union with the EU.
The wider issues of tariffs and protectionism and the ethics thereof are something I can quite happily debate all day and I’m not even assuming other participants here (seriously, it’s one where the various principles that my political outlook actually consists of* clash in interesting ways), but that aside it’s not…
Since I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion about the notion of a Second Brexit Referendum (or ‘first referendum on the facts’, if you’re into your #FBPE), it’s worth writing down what I actually think about it.
First off, as far as I can tell, Brexit Ref 2 is the most feasible way of stopping Brexit that I can see.
The first referendum’s precedent, plus pretty much everything that the Labour and Tory leaderships have done since June 2016, means that the government basically can’t not-Brexit and also survive past the moment the inability to Brexit became apparent. Meanwhile, Labour…
Have an attempt at a short ‘Space’ shanty.
This is a bit of an odd choice of ‘first Medium post’, but hey.
Anyway, as will become readily obvious, this one’s called ‘Into the Wilderness we go!”, and it goes like this:
Starships running to-and-fro,
Into the Wilderness we go!
Where no-one rules, yet Judgements glow
Into the Wilderness we go!
The danger’s clear — that much we know -
But to the Wilderness we go!
And Old Queen Vic, she wills it, so
Into the Wilderness we go!
Yes!
Into the Wilderness we go!** This last line repeated until…
Alicia Butteriss
A third-year Maths and Computer Science student, with slightly overly wide-ranging interests.
