Heresy

I think I've finally sussed the Brexit mentality.

I saw a letter in Yesterday's Sunday Times where the writer maintained that the American colonies were willing to sacrifice British trade and protection during the American Revolution in return for independence and went on to be spectacularly successful, thus Brexit should hold no fears for the UK. The fallacy in this comparison of Revolutionary America to Britain is glaringly obvious, even to a blind wombat.

America is a country built on immigration - in 1765 it was a wide open country with few people and abundant resources; a land of undeniably huge opportunities - a veritable immigration magnet with free land (if you could eradicate the natives). It didn't need Britain as it had enough opportunity to sustain itself internally, slaves in abundance and everyone wanted to buy tobacco and cheap cotton - all it needed was more immigrants. The difference between Revolutionary America and Britain today couldn't be more stark, as the circumstances are/were entirely different.

How about Germany? Immigrants are attracted to Germany due to it being an economic powerhouse with relatively high wages and excellent social benefits. This is afforded by quality products people want to buy.

If you want to reduce immigration you have to make sure your country isn't attractive to immigrants by not being successful, certainly nowhere near as successful as other countries near you - let them become the magnets for immigrants, refugees and illegals.

I think that just about sums up the Brexit modus operandi, else why place the economy of the UK at a substantial disadvantage? It seems to be working too.

Talking of the Sunday Times; its editorial yesterday poo-pooed the London march on Saturday, saying it was primarily a London thing and the appetite for a 2nd referendum was not that high outside of the capital. I guess the editor didn't see all the coaches from as far afield as Lancashire, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Brexit press' denial of the fact that the mood of the nation has changed, supported by poll after poll, is breathtaking and shows the effects of dogma at its blinkered best. Yet Remainers are continually accused of whining - whining by pointing out that some are blind to reason, evidence, truth, logic and fact. Brexit has successfully become a religion for some, and none of the aforementioned analytical tools, which are available to all, are effective against blind dogma, especially when the dogma is articulated, ex cathedra, by the infallible Boris, who has the ambition of a Borgia.

I'm quite happy to be a heretic and use my brain and critical faculties to sift fact from fiction. Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps, though sure, are slow and solemn.