There is a general consensus amongst those who want to leave the EU
that those who want to stay
are in some form of denial
and it's true that those who want to leave do have a tendency to
write in capital letters in The Daily Express in the Daily Mail comment section that
they want our country back.
It's simple: We just want to leave
as somebody wrote in the comment section of one of my videos
and it doesn't even begin to acknowledge
that there is a complication with
Ireland,
Gibraltar and
farming in the United Kingdom
but as I sit here
on my balcony overlooking the Atlantic Ocean,
I can't help but think that the remainers
are in some level of denial as well.
Often this Brexit is described as a divorce
but that's not really the case.
A divorce would suggest that one partner, at least,
actually wants to go but...
the opinion polls and the behaviour of people in the United Kingdom
suggests that it is far from being clear-cut.
It is more like...
a couple; where one member of the partnership
has been granted the opportunity
to go away somewhere else:
a new job, a new way of life
and that person is torn
between going and staying with the person that they love
and then what follows is 18 months two years of
stress,
worry,
doubt,
questioning,
revenge,
petty remarks
so that, in the end, if the United Kingdom does
decide to stay
it won't be a case of going back to what we once had.
This notion of 'Exit from Brexit'
it just cannot exist
because the relationship with the EU and the UK
is now so fragile. It's so full of doubt
and insecurity
that the EU is going to want securities.
They don't want to have to face this again
in three years, five years or even ten years time
and god neither do we!
so maybe we will have to...
join the Schengen area
maybe we will lose our rebate, maybe
we will have to join the Euro.
We cannot 'Exit from 'Brexit'.
We have to move on
and we need to face the realities of what is going to be
at the other side of this decision
when it is finally made.
I hear a lot of talk
in the UK about
the day after Brexit
and this transition period where they're going to try and make it
as smooth a transition from what we had...
but nobody is saying
what we are transitioning into.
No one talks about...
the year after Brexit
three years after Brexit.
It is true that
those that want to leave are in denial.
They are more than happy to sacrifice their jobs for Brexit,
but seem completely unwilling
to queue at airports.
They want to take us back to a time when...
our passports were as blue as the Syrian passport is now,
but the remainers want to take us back in time as well.
Admittedly, not that far back
just to before the referendum -
but we can't.
It is an alarm clock
that Michel Barnier reminds us constantly is ticking
and come March 2019
people who live in the United Kingdom
are going to have one hell
of a wake-up call.