Fishing for Unicorns

Let me see if I've got this right; a hard Brexit will do no damage to the UK economy - or at least that's the dogma of the Hard Brexiteers. So why does Jeremy Hunt need to allocate £6.5bn to mitigate the effects of Hard Brexit on farming and fishing? I thought getting our fishing grounds back was meant to herald a new dawn for the fishing industry - isn't that what Farage said?

Ah, the pain will be worth it, they say - but worth what, what do we get in recompense? Price increases, job losses, economic turmoil - what's the benefit besides blue passports? 

Oh, and the British firm that failed to get the blue passport contract has just laid off 170 staff.

And so it begins.... A manufactured, external enemy is essential to the demagogue who wishes to harness emotion and frustration to achieve God knows what ends. Wake up, UK and smell the smoked haddock.

Hunt is already priming the mob by saying that if there is no deal (which there is, but Parliament rejected it) then it will be, illogically, the EU's fault that Britain suffers - which anyone with an ounce of sense knew would be the outcome and what Brexiteers are now saying they actually voted for, but will be worth the pain. A veritable tour de force of utter tripe and deflection whereby people project their own worst tendencies on a convenient 'enemy'. It was 'the will of the people' 3 years ago, against expert opinion, so stop deflecting the blame when the mantra was; "We've had enough of experts."