1. Brexit shuts down Britons’ direct path to Disneyland - one of those perfect metaphors Brexit specialises in One thing Brexit has been great at is creating perfect metaphors for itself, of the type that often seem to come from the pen of a master satirist. In other words, Brexit is weirdly great at taking the piss out of itself, albeit unintentionally. We’ve had the island of Britain swimming in its own faeces this summer already, so to get one just as good seems like Brexit is truly spoiling us. For Britain’s departure from the European Union has now caused Britons to be cut off from a direct route to Euro Disneyland; our train to the place of fun and sunlit uplands being torn down by Brexit.
Tom Hayes identified over 18 months ago that the big things about Brexit (trade, treaties, falling pound and so on) would not be the things that cause people to sit up and take notice of what they gave up by leaving the EU. It would be the small things that everyone took for granted that would strike home: passport queues, pet passports, limits on duration of stays in the EU, and now, direct access to Disneyland. All of this was foreshadowed in his blog post 'The “Brexit of Small Things” is here… to stay': https://beergbrexit.blog/2021/01/31/brexit-of-small-things/
This will continue until the UK has a government that is not emotionally attached to its hard Brexit and chooses policies to benefit the country as a whole (i.e. not run by and for EUrophobes).
Your reflection reminded me of something I read during the whole farce. Behind the scenes it was reported that Gove was pushing for something like EFTA-EEA membership for the UK.
Come on Nick, not so somber. UK citizens still don't need special visas to travel and work outside of the different parts of the UK then where they live. E. g a Scotsman may still work in Wales without a special permit from Westminster
Thanks, Nick. I particularly like the plane analogy - how very apt.
Thanks!
Tom Hayes identified over 18 months ago that the big things about Brexit (trade, treaties, falling pound and so on) would not be the things that cause people to sit up and take notice of what they gave up by leaving the EU. It would be the small things that everyone took for granted that would strike home: passport queues, pet passports, limits on duration of stays in the EU, and now, direct access to Disneyland. All of this was foreshadowed in his blog post 'The “Brexit of Small Things” is here… to stay': https://beergbrexit.blog/2021/01/31/brexit-of-small-things/
This will continue until the UK has a government that is not emotionally attached to its hard Brexit and chooses policies to benefit the country as a whole (i.e. not run by and for EUrophobes).
Your reflection reminded me of something I read during the whole farce. Behind the scenes it was reported that Gove was pushing for something like EFTA-EEA membership for the UK.
A cursory search online reveals this :
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/7825443/amber-rudd-and-michael-gove-join-efta/
So your your alternative history has some basis to it.
Come on Nick, not so somber. UK citizens still don't need special visas to travel and work outside of the different parts of the UK then where they live. E. g a Scotsman may still work in Wales without a special permit from Westminster