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For Liz Truss and her government, post-Brexit politics is proving to be impossible. They want life outside the EU to mean small state, low tax economics, public spending cuts and a smaller welfare state – which is not what millions of leave supporters thought they were voting for in the 2016 referendum, nor what the Tories offered in the two elections that followed.
Meanwhile, Brexit’s endless constraints in pursuit of growth threatens to tie the government in knots.
Then you have that daughter of an economic migrant Suella Braverman, a classic example of modern Conservatism’s nastiness and introversion, says she wants to cut net migration to “tens of thousands” and dreaming of a plane taking asylum seekers to Rwanda!!
At the same time, the penny has struck the government, that growth without people to do the work is impossible so it wants to liberalise the UK’s immigration system, (Mr Spoons himself has been clamouring for this ironically!) and send a certain kind of Brexit voter into paroxysms of fury. Especially as we seem to be replacing immigration from the EU, with immigration from the rest of the world!
The absurd logic of Truss and her allies’ position cannot hold: as the Brexit revolution that upturned Conservative politics and brought them to power unravels, the reason for their success is also why they will fail. Brexiteers have been lucky in that Covid and now the war in Ukraine has masked some of the effects of Brexit, though the effects of both have been worse due to Brexit, and provided a useful smokescreen to distract what is really happening from the 17 million odd who voted for it.
Some good news though, the UK can now sell lamb to the USA, a country that predominantly eats beef! So we buy lamb from New Zealand (as part of the new trade deal) and can sell ours to the USA. Mm that makes complete sense on both an economic and carbon saving level!!
Meanwhile, Brexit’s endless constraints in pursuit of growth threatens to tie the government in knots.
Then you have that daughter of an economic migrant Suella Braverman, a classic example of modern Conservatism’s nastiness and introversion, says she wants to cut net migration to “tens of thousands” and dreaming of a plane taking asylum seekers to Rwanda!!
At the same time, the penny has struck the government, that growth without people to do the work is impossible so it wants to liberalise the UK’s immigration system, (Mr Spoons himself has been clamouring for this ironically!) and send a certain kind of Brexit voter into paroxysms of fury. Especially as we seem to be replacing immigration from the EU, with immigration from the rest of the world!
The absurd logic of Truss and her allies’ position cannot hold: as the Brexit revolution that upturned Conservative politics and brought them to power unravels, the reason for their success is also why they will fail. Brexiteers have been lucky in that Covid and now the war in Ukraine has masked some of the effects of Brexit, though the effects of both have been worse due to Brexit, and provided a useful smokescreen to distract what is really happening from the 17 million odd who voted for it.
Some good news though, the UK can now sell lamb to the USA, a country that predominantly eats beef! So we buy lamb from New Zealand (as part of the new trade deal) and can sell ours to the USA. Mm that makes complete sense on both an economic and carbon saving level!!
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