Happy new year to my reader and, according to some, Happy New Decade: but I’m not so sure. After all:
- There never was a year 0: see multitudinous arguments about the Millennium! Maybe the new decade doesn’t begin until Jan 1st 2021…
- Why should this decade (or year) be any happier than the last (or the one before that… all the way back to the garden!) After all: there wasn’t a hell of a lot of ‘goodwill to all men’ or ‘peace on Earth’ during the recent Christmas season…
The Brexiteers are firmly in control. Boris won a swingeing majority. God alone knows how: perhaps everyone was getting fed up and shilly-shallying and wanted to get the pain over with. Sorry guys, that aspect has only just begun. The EU are now saying that we might have to leave without even a trade agreement, let alone a ‘deal’: whatever that is.
Take the fishermen: ‘Whoopee’, they said, ‘No more foreigners fishing ‘our’ seas, no more quotas.’ What if the EU says: ‘no fishing then no trade at all’. Oops! Of course, it’s always possible that any agreement will involve them fishing in ‘our’ waters while we’re banned from theirs. Double oops…
Of course, I might be proved wrong, and everyone will end up best pals, but it doesn’t seem very likely. Happy days: perhaps we should declare war on the USA: it worked for the Germans and the Japanese! Britain needs some Marshall Aid to avoid the lazy b*st*rds having to get up off their ars*s and do some work, even if it results in the NHS being sold off to Don…
And don’t get me started on the Labour Party and the cock-up they made of the General Election: Jeremy couldn’t have done a better job if he’d been in the pay of the Tories…