Barnacle Brexit

If we manage to blot out the smug faces we see daily in power spouting venomous twaddle at us, such as the pernicious Priti Patel or the daft Liz Truss or punchable Michael Gove, Nigel Farage and Mark Francois to name but a few, we might just manage to survive. 

Those in power hold Brexit to be a ‘purgatorial tonic’, purely motivated by sovereignty, ambitious independence and self-sufficiency. In reality, it is no more than a hideous parody of ‘The Good Life’. 

The more of Brexit we see unfold, the more it resembles a barnacle that typically thrives in erosive settings of mind-blowing arrogance, small-mindedness, xenophobia and if not downright racism then plain bigotry with a capital B. A bitter pill for the whole of the UK and its neighbours. The pill is divided unequally and those who can spit it out are seen as luckier than those who have no option but to swallow. 

Thank goodness there are many little people who remain mindful of our globally shared humanity. This presence of good people, with or without power to address and change what has happened in the last few years, remains without a doubt where any solace lies.