Trying to be disinterested about Brexit
Ahhh Brexit! As I get older and previously made the decision to no longer care about stuff as much, I have been trying to stay in a glorious state of ambivalence about what is happening in my homeland of the UK. I am flying back tomorrow. I have been trying to read less political shite and focus on instead on really major things that are happening such as possible war in the Gulf, major riots in Hong Kong, the state of the global economy and the fact that quite a lot of dickheads in power are still trying to deny climate change as the world literally burns and melts around them.
As I write this, I got a BBC newsflash that apparently Boris’s decision to prorogue parliament was illegal. I have seen a few news items about various courts deciding on this but this one is from the Supreme Court and that trumps all the others. Not sure why they bothered with the others. Now parliament can convene again. Hooray! They will finally have the chance to sort it all out. Apparently this is major news but will anything actually change by the end of October? I know this is all historic and major and so forth but if someone is incapable of making a decision then giving them more time is going to do bugger all.
I mean, for three years it was Teresa May claiming they were close to a Brexit deal and that she’d get it through parliament. I stopped caring around the time of multiple votes where she didn’t. Then Boris and the pledge that he won’t prorogue, that the odds of a no deal is a million to one, that we will definitely be out by 31st October even with No Deal, and blah blah. I am getting all this info purely from one-line newsflashes and accidentally hearing news reports on BBC radio and in summary – nothing has actually happened. Well, except everyone is more polarised and angry, Boris lied to the Queen, democracy was stolen in a coup (but apparently is back), Boris says we will be out by 31st Oct, except everyone else says we legally won’t and the party in power has no majority.
Maybe they will put a border in the Irish sea now that they have lost the majority anyway. Maybe Boris will negotiate a brilliant deal. Maybe there will be another election or referendum. For me, this is a bit like football. The match begins and I go off and do something else. Instead of newsflashes though, there a shitload of cheering, oohing and aahing, raised voices, tears and joy – then I come back in before the final whistle and find it is still nil-nil.
I am returning to the UK tonight and will try and be disinterested about all that is going on. Being informed and increasingly uninterested is proving easier. Unless we are out or there is an agreed by all deal – essentially, until the final whistle is blown, I will endeavour to not care either way about the annoying bollocks that is Brexit. I will listen to the distant excitement from next door while reading a book. Although, having read all the above, I sadly still do obviously care. I must try less hard in the future. The thing is, while I don’t necessary adore the EU, I think we are better off in it. Also, selfishly, it is at least partly because I will want to live there at some point and visa issues are a ball-ache. I guess we will see. Maybe the Brexiteers are right and it will be another golden age for the UK and we will soar back up the ranks from our fifth place and everyone will be rich as we trade with world. Maybe the Remainers are right and we will all be living on tinned beans and dying from easily treatable diseases if we don’t stay in. Who knows?
