The lunatics have taken over the asylum

The UK is in a sad place.  Our country is being run into the ground by warring factions of the elite Tory party claiming they represent the 'will of the people', egged on by an incompetent Labour party. This time, next year we will have been stripped of our european citizenship, making us poorer both financially and culturally.  We are going to lose a lot because of some posh arseholes playing games with democracy.

The rest of the world is laughing at Britain.  Fintan O'Toole has just written a great book about it.  Watching from the sidelines, the ego-death of a faded imperial empire is pretty funny.  Much was made of the British stiff-upper-lip and the 'keep calm and carry on' meme and this has all been exposed as patent bullshit.  Britain flaps around like a headless chicken or a dying animal, demented and brain damaged, just wanting to be put out of it's misery.  The country is full of angry, angry red faced people, shouting, unhappy with their lot, looking with someone to blame and settling on the EU which they can't quite conceptualise.  They just know it is foreign and stopping Britannia from ruling the waves.

The EU has protected many of us from unfair employment practices, protected us from working too many hours and giving us benefits like maternity or paternity leave.  In America, you get fuck all in terms of holidays or maternity benefits.  Or health care.

The NHS will go after Brexit, another unintended consequence of the will of the people.  If we want a trade deal with the USA, the health care monopoly of the NHS will have to go.  I fear for the future some times.

In recent days the government have started putting out adverts about the need to apply for settled status in the UK.  This even affects children born here to European parents.  This will hurt some of my friends and colleagues.  It's a jingoistic disgrace, bringing to mind Germany in the 1930s.

Fuck me, our country is in a mess.  All we can do is vote but in Scotland your vote and your voice mean little.  Scotland is impotent in the UK.

I'm lucky in so many ways and hopefully I will be cushioned from much of what happens over the next few years but I meet many people who will be directly impacted.  I'm sad for them.