Why Brexit may not feel "real"...

[EdwinH]

Perhaps one of the reasons Brexit is so discombobulating is that the UK has rarely had to cope with natural disasters. No earthquakes, volcanoes, or tidal waves. No hurricanes, or certainly none even remotely approaching the fury of those that regularly ravage the Atlantic and Pacific basins.

So, aside from the generation that lived through WW2, none of us have experience of overnight upheaval, of the upending of "normal". That makes the warnings surrounding Brexit seem surreal, or false, depending on your politics - but never immediate, never truly visceral.

Brexit is likely to be equally unreal for most of our politicians, even with just over 60 days to go. Few will have woken in a cold sweat, or felt their gut knot as the reality of our dire situation hits home.

Until Brexit gets real, they will continue to dodge and dither and prevaricate.

Yes that's it Dutch1e - things are always alright in the end. It gets sorted, and rarely is there a big deal.

Normally, that's because someone in the background has been doing a shit tonne of work to make sure it is all sorted, that most of us are vaguely aware of, like the Millenium Bug - of course it wouldn't be that bad, because the work will be done in the background and it'll all be fine. We don't need to worry because this is Britain, and it gets sorted out one way or another. Except this time, it does kind of feel like I don't trust it will be. That there's not someone sorting it out. That May's deal - however shit it was - was the attempt to take the edge off so we didn't 'feel' the effects. And now we might just have to...