A working-Brexit-out, workout
Part Two: The good news.

We can stop the Brexit confusion now. We can end uncertainty and bring about change that benefits everyone. All of the chaos of the last three and a half years does not have to end badly. We can make it a force for good.
Let’s stop the noise and start talking.
Let’s allow our politicians to accept their culpability and myopia with respect to the decline of the living standards of huge swathes of Britain. Let’s have them speak to us in clear, unambiguous terms. In language that brings hope. With words that are honoured. In ways that mean something now.
Let’s start planning how we reform the EU from the inside.
Let’s start thinking of ways to fund our lives as we are routinely living beyond a hundred (in 2015 there were 415,000 centenarians worldwide, 4X more than 1990. The projection for 2050 is 3,676,000. Source UN).
Let’s figure out what we’re all going to do when the rise of the machines takes all of our jobs (not immigrants).
Let’s consider the retirement age (with a European life expectancy of around 84 (source Eurostat), retiring at 66 leaves 18 years of non-productive life to be funded by the young).
Let’s think about the length of the working week.
Let’s think about societal infrastructure and how to distribute wealth more evenly.
Let’s think about reviving cities, towns and communities.
Let’s start acting like a species in peril and pull together to overcome the threat of ecological calamity.
Let’s not forget, will live in a globally connected world.
Let’s do all of these things and halt the rise of populism. Forget protectionist nationalism and self-serving, short term agendas. The threats that lie ahead are bigger than anyone really realises.
We need to act intelligently,
We need to act, now.
Revoking Article 50 (proof it’s possible here) is the only answer.
It restores our position within the world’s third super-power (the European Union). It removes the uncertainty that has bedevilled business for almost four years, wrecking our economic growth. It does all this with an immediacy that will help heal the misguided, self-inflicted wounds we’ve suffered since that wretched day in 2016. And, most importantly, it gives my children and yours, the chance of a future.
This is no joke. We must revoke (see how here)!
Why would we not?
We think we’ll be better off outside the European Union, that’s why.
Why do we think that?
- We currently have a great relationship with our biggest trading partner.
- We’ve known uninterrupted peace for decades.
- We can freely pass from one country to another with a minimum of fuss.
- We can live and work wherever we want to.
That all sounds pretty good to me.
The not so good news
The current position we’re in is entirely unacceptable. Gerrymandering and duplicity for party and personal benefit is just wrong. It does nothing to get us closer to a deal. Nor does it provide any clarity on the situation before us. No one seems to be talking about the realities that will befall the rest of us. The uncertainty that will certainly lead to more austerity. Greater poverty and increased levels of homelessness and despair.
No one seems to care a damn about the future world they’re creating for my kids. There’s no mention of the bright futures because they won’t be there. As an annexed nation with little or nothing to offer the world what do we do?
Let’s all just take a deep breath. Accept that we didn’t know what we were getting into and figure out how we can fix things.
Yet it seems we’d rather rush like hordes of Lemmings off a cliff into a pit of tragic despair, the depth of which we are completely ignorant of. We’d rather isolate ourselves. Increase the time and inconvenience that will come with what is currently the simplest of journeys. We’d prefer to cut ties with our biggest customer and lose the sales that drive our economy on the promise that other, far more distant nations, will be of greater value.
OK, that’s all well and good. If that’s the will of the people, so be it. Decades of suffering for generations is a fair price to pay to be English. Yes, English, because Britain will most likely cease to be since the Great bit went when we dissolved into rudderless parliamentary division. And we’ll become the Un-tied Kingdom when the Scottish up and leave. Oh, and there’ll be a border between Northern Ireland and England.
The even worse news.
Apart from setting fire to our own nation. Apart from destroying our political structure. Apart from consigning generations to the misery of poverty. Apart from becoming the laughing stock of the world. We’re also handing the torch of petty nationalism to other nations.
Our example will destroy us for sure, but it will also give cause for others to rise up for all the reasons we did (see part one). Our misguided acts based on lies will stir up trouble everywhere. This is tantamount to vandalism on an epic scale.
The ruination we have set in train does for us in ways that boggle the mind. It sets us back decades. Leaves us with a future so uncertain, so distant in any form of recovery and so bleak for our children and theirs that it shames me to be part of it.
Then there’s the damage that we’ll be unleashing across the continent as others suffer the same short-sightedness that has blighted us. Fracturing a union that has been a force for good for decades. Okay, it was cobbled together over forty years ago, it needs fixing — not destroying. We can only do that from within.
This is far bigger than just us. It’s actually far bigger than Europe (more in part three). We must stop it now.
We must revoke.
