Sorry. I have to write about Brexit

I really didn't want to do this much but for the past 3 years Brexit has been an ever present for Brits everywhere. It started off with the shock of the referendum, the resignation of the PM that introduced it and then lost an election over it, and was followed seemingly by an endless and tortuous series of probably well meaning meetings which have resulted in ... chaos.

The country has a new PM that from reading the papers and the online media nobody apparently really likes, trusts or believes. He's lost 6 votes in a row in Parliament, a record, and is facing the possibility of jail time if he doesn't follow Parliament's most recent instruction. He cannot call an election as the opposition is happy to watch him squirm. His view is that he wants to be out of the EU on 31st October 2019 (the next final drop dead deadline day... until the next one) come hell or high water and that he'd prefer to being dead in a ditch to going back and ask for another extension.

Today he prorogued Parliament. This apparently is a big thing even though it happens every year as it is the means by which Parliament is formally closed for the sitting MPs' summer holidays. Parallels have been drawn with Charles I and the English Civil War of 1640-1649 but with the new PM cast in the role of villain as opposed to the monarch.

How it ends from this point is regrettably anybody's guess and far beyond me.

This has all happened at a turbulent time in global affairs for no sooner had the referendum taken place that Donald Trump was elected President of the USA. Elections have taken place across the EU with several changes of government leaders in this time too. Global financial markets have done reasonably well but President Trump's use of Twitter has roiled the world on every topic that you could possibly shake a stick at. How does he sleep? It is evident to most that economically things aren't as strong and that recession is nearer than it was.

But we have all forgotten I think that the UK has always been skeptical about being part of Europe, both when it was formerly the EEC and now that is called the EU. This isn't a new thing. I returned to YouTube for clarity and found it in an old Yes Minister episode that explains why the UK is in the EU very well.

And another in which Yes Minister perfectly sums up why Brexit.

Both are from 1980. It doesn't help much but it is very amusing to hear it put like this. Plus ca change....