The facts have changed. It is so fucking simple that if you don't get it, your influence in decision making should be severely curtailed.
Everything that was planned or promised in 2024 needs to be reevaluated in the light of 2025.
If the UK were a person, then the current "strategy" seems akin to self dosing with arsenic out of fear of being poisoned.
When I first went to Kenya, I was a little bit too late for the yellow fever jab. My Dr. suggested that it was better I went without it, fit and healthy, than go suffering the potentially debilitating effects of the vaccine that would render me more vulnerable to (in their words) "Goodness knows what !".
If the UK wishes to survive and be able to fight the oncoming conflict (which may be repeated infrastructure attacks) then maybe it shouldn't be weakening itself on the altar of the busted idol of "austerity". Which is exactly we are getting even if the word isn't in the air.
Remember that in 1940, Churchill seriously suggested uniting Britain and France - becoming a single country. That is what real leaders do when faced with extraordinary circumstances. They think extraordinary things.
Where the fuck are the brave Brexiteers now ? You know - those arseholes who were selling themselves as visionaries and heralds of the future ? Or has the sunlight of the past 6 months failed to penetrate the backsides they were clearly living in ?
Incidentally, without saying "I told you so", one of the key planks of the Remain campaign was "What if the facts change ?". The fact that a lot of Leavers failed to grasp the possibility they could doesn't reflect well on their imagination, and by extension their intelligence. Because as we all know, the two are inseparable.
Well that's Saturdays opinion piece. Hard not to feel bitter that I put 10 minutes into that and get fuck all, and Boris Johnson puts in fuck all and gets 10 grand. But thems the breaks.