Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "self obsession after Brexit is summed up by the Brendan Kavanagh debacle in St Pancras" video.

  1. While I see the convergence between Putin’s opportunism and Britain’s withdrawal from Europe, I think it is a step too far to say his invasion of Ukraine could not have happened but for Brexit. It, “helped,” certainly. But there are so many moving parts to that diagram it would be impossible for me to martial an argument against the idea without writing an essay. An essay, using your five steps, I hasten to add. But, to your point, you touch it with a needle once again. At the very moment of the Brexit referendum result, the British government, “should,” have had a prepared plan of action, ready to go, comprising of diplomatic efforts to ensure strengthening bonds between ourselves and all other nations in Europe, as well as assurances to the wider world. We, “should,” have had state visits by every available member of the Royal Family, our diplomats all singing from a single, unified hymn sheet, and politicians from the Foreign Office and Cabinet, all busy out in Europe, making clear our intentions to maintain and strengthen our relationships with all countries inside the European project. We should have never allowed any breast beating and victory laps, and assured the Europeans that our withdrawal would be handled with discretion and minimum fanfare. Even if the vote had been 100% in favour we should have seen to that. Now, we’re naval gazing and waving our shrinking little union flags in the faces of those from whom we most the most help, in the belligerent manner of a toxic teen, incapable of respecting the adults in the room and bent on showing them so at every opportunity. It’s time we ALL collectively faced up to the fact that the remainers had a point, and even the pro-Brexiteers did NOT get the Brexit they were promised. It failed and is still failing. We must STOP all this backward, past-focussed thinking, all this insularism and, “little Englander,” mindset, stuff. We need to grow up and accept we have been conned, instead of squandering increasing amounts of hard cash and soft power on the very mob who lead us down this dark alley only to get mugged. And we must accept that these people in charge are not just squalid, self interested con artists, like so many politicians before them, but they represent a new class of politico: The incomparably THICK. In the last ten years, I have never seen a more STUPID collection of people in one room as I have in the Cabinet Office of Number 10 Downing Street. They must be replaced as a matter of national security.
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