Theresa May – who has quickly learned that the only purpose of her job is to look after Theresa May – has announced that she will trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017. This would mean the UK is no longer part of the EU by the middle of 2019.
Actually, she hasn’t really said anything we didn’t already suspect. But even so, one piece of advice I would give her before she gets too wound up in her ego is that she remembers that the slightly-less-than 52% who voted to leave the EU were not all Tory voters in the first place, and once the inevitable downturn in the economy kicks in, even less of them will be. In effect, Brexit will cost her her job – just as it did David Cameron before her.
Cameron f–ked up the country by allowing the Referendum in the first place. May is simply f—king up the still-twitching corpse he left behind.
Theresa May still has time to see sense and stop Brexit, but I don’t think she will because she is simply playing a political game which she believes is to her own advantage. She is incapable of seeing that it is not to anyone else’s advantage beyond being seen to comply with some ridiculous definition of the word “democracy”.
I still live in hope that someone else will come up with a way of preventing Brexit happening. If it goes ahead, I can say with absolute certainty that it has effectively screwed up the rest of my life. I can also be quite sure that it has damaged or screwed up the lives of this generation’s children, and probably those of at least another two or three generations beyond that. And that assumes that the world remains as it is today, and that some insane despot doesn’t appear on the horizon.
Leaving the EU is the WRONG DECISION. Holding a referendum was the WRONG DECISION. Everyone with even the smallest amount of intelligence – including Theresa May, who was against Brexit – knows it.
At close of play on Friday, GBP stood at $1.297 – that’s 12.6% below what it was before the Referendum. It is only about 0.5% higher than its lowest post-Referendum price, and 3.5% below the highest it has been post-Referendum.