Forgive me reader, for I have sinned.   Many years ago (well three and a bit to be more precise), I did a very stupid thing.   I voted leave in the Brexit referendum.   It is not something I am proud of, and as soon as the leave result even looked likely I was already wishing that I could have changed my vote.   So some explanation/ penance is due to every other person on the entire planet for forcing all this rubbish on then on an almost daily basis for the last 1,168 days (and counting).   If you have read my previous posts about Brexit (https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2018/11/brexit-dirty-word-in-any-european.html, or https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2019/02/brexit-revisited.html), you may be surprised that I voted this way. It’s not completely my fault, (says he trying to cover his tracks).   The politicians and every bit of media discussion on the vote seemed to be saying that remain votes would be the overwhelming majority.   I don’t ...

I still hold to my comments published in my first Brexit post (see: https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2018/11/brexit-dirty-word-in-any-european.html ).   But still the debacle rolls on.   Frankly, nearly 3 years on from the referendum, the whole shambles is becoming downright embarrassing.   I have used the picture below on my first post, but it is worth repeating.     So a few more points.   Good old Teresa is still sticking fast to her no second vote stance, despite the current shambles.   I know that a small majority voted leave, but really, how much worse is it to be governed by Brussels than by the current occupants of Westminster, especially after they have proved themselves so incapable of running anything over the last few years?   Here in good old ‘Norn Iron’, we have the additional joy of having politicians that have been absent from Stormont for years but who are still getting paid!   It’s nice to know that all the...

I don’t know about you, but I am sick of Brexit.   Mind you I was pretty sick of the petty squabbles our Westminster and Stormont politicians kept harping on about even before the Brexit vote.   So here is my semi reasoned view of the situation. We hear a lot about the wonderful democratic process that we went through to get to the current impasse.   Don't forget it still has to get through parliament and the other 27 countries.  I don’t often agree with Corbin, but while people on either side of the Brexit debate were either slagging off the EU or singing its unequivocal praises, I remember that his expressed opinion of it was “seven out of ten”.   In other words it isn’t perfect, but it’s better than nothing.   That was probably the most honest thing that was said in the whole convoluted lead up to the referendum.   There was so much drivel and misinformation told by both sides, few voters could have made a reasonable voting judgement.   Th...