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Jun 26, 2016

Post Brexit Comedown

http://punchng.com/uk-economy-plunges-unknown-brexit/

Like me you probably sat shocked in front of the TV on Friday morning as the news broke of the referendum result. I got on a packed tube and saw the spooked faces of my fellow commuters. We don’t normally speak (It is London, you know?) but that morning called for something different. “Isn’t it awful?” we said to each other. We didn’t have to articulate what ‘it’ ’was. Even my “In’ sticker on my coat was symbolically washed off in the biblical downpour we had in London on Friday.

I’d spent the day before the referendum at the Royal Festival Hall for my daughter’s graduation and wrote a well received piece on here about why we should stay and why we owed it to the next generation. With hindsight I was surprisingly optimistic. Perhaps I should have prepared myself for the worst.

So since then it’s been pretty grim. I can feel my social media network willing itself to cheer me up. We’re all trying to understand what’s going on while simultaneously clinging to any bit of good news. A policemen proposing to his boyfriend at Pride? LIKE. The people’s choice, Adele or New Order’s performance at Glastonbury? LIKE. Show me the things that remind me of a more compassionate, warmer and cosier UK and I will LIKE them on Facebook.

But nothing is really working. Those in the fields of Worthy Farm or the crowds at Pride in London yesterday are doing their best to cling to the compassion and the togetherness of big events but there’s a bad smell in the air. Even the football can’t raise our spirits. The gathering clouds seem more ominous and even Trump is closer now as his private jet lands in Scotland. Bugger off, Donald. We’ve enough on our plate!

So here are some of the things I’ve seen and read that gives it all a wider context. It doesn’t make it better but at least I feel I know what’s going on — but still not what’s going to happen next.

Eleanor St Clair — NO! I won’t shut up — https://eleanorstclair.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/no-i-wont-shut-up/

Firstly, let’s be angry. We will need to let the anger go but I’m going to hang on to it for a while longer. Anger not at those who voted differently to me but those who sold them the lies. This blog nails it!

Tom Short From Guardian Comments section — https://www.facebook.com/tom.short.351/posts/10155134392909152

This is one of the most interesting things I read this weekend. Boris and Gove and their cohorts never really expected to win and when they did, Cameron played the masterful card of leaving the triggering of the now infamous Article 50 to his successors. Will it even happen now? It’s obvious they had no real plan for post winning the referendum and surprisingly they’re very quiet this weekend as they try to come up with one!

Slate — Brexit May Well Never Happen http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/06/brexit_might_never_happen.html

Here’s another focussing on the same idea that it might not really happen of Article 50 isn’t invoked. And no one is stepping up to do so.

Owen Jones — Brexit: Prepare Your selves — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FqAaD_lsRw

From a few days before the referendum, it puts the chances of a Brexit vote in a wider economic context. He predicts the oncoming power grab by the Conservative right. Surprisingly this will lead to more attacks on worker’s rights and the NHS. Basically the opposite to what they promised! He also discussed the fractious state of the Labour Party. I like Own Jones and considering this was a few days out from the referendum, he pretty much nailed it.

John Pilger — Why the British said no to Europe http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-british-said-no-to-europe

The veteran journalist and broadcaster puts in a wider context of Russia and beyond.

Dear Brexiteer — What you need to do now — https://frpip.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/dear-brexiteer-what-we-need-you-to-do-now/

This blog has been doing the rounds and is a very compassionate and well thought out plea to those who did vote to leave to follow through and ensure we all get a better fairer future. This will only come by pressure on our politicians… and by voting them out!

Bants and Rants — LEXIT! #fuckboris #fucknigel

Finally this made me laugh and that’s often the response of those of us on these islands. I love this guy and he tells it like it is . Well informed, angry but also funny as hell. This got me through the weekend!