We all knew what we were voting for

[dolorosa_12]

So we now have people panic buying petrol, to the extent that ambulances can't get the fuel they need.

There are likely to be massive price hikes in fuel costs over winter.

Fruit is rotting on the ground, or in delivery trucks, because we have a shortage of people to pick it or drive it to wherever it needs to go.

Social care, hospitality, and several other industries don't have enough staff to operate safely or properly.

Apparantly there is going to be a shortage of turkeys over Christmas.

According to the government, of course, none of this has anything to do with Brexit, even though the solution proposed to all the personnel shortages is, of course, to relax the stupid immigration rules they implemented as the centrepiece of their beloved hard Brexit.

And all because no one had the courage to explain to a pack of frightened racists that things were more a) interconnected and b) complicated than their self-satisfied ignorance led them to believe. Or, if we did attempt to explain this, we were told that we were smug metropolitan elites, that their ignorance was better than myriad experts from myriad fields' experience and knowledge, and that they'd 'had enough of experts' anyway.

And still, apart from The Guardian and the usual FBPE Twitter suspects, most commentators are still dancing around the obvious fact that while Covid may have caused some of these problems, Brexit is compounding the significant trouble this country has in fixing them. And if you declare that immigrants are thieves and parasites and make your desire for us to leave the centrepiece of your claims to political legitimacy, the fact that we have left in droves and have little interest in returning on temporary visas with no route to permanent residency or right to family life will actually have severe and negative consequences.

But of course, Brexiteers, you 'all knew exactly what we were voting for.'

Comments

[senmut]

I am sorry the idiots got their way.

[dolorosa_12]

Even if we had to leave the EU, there were ways to do it that wouldn't have caused this degree of harm. Even for most of last year, when it was clear that the pandemic was going to wreak havoc, there were points where we could have put the brakes on Brexit in such a way as to mitigate the consequences of the pandemic. But after a certain point, it was too late, and now here we are.

[worlds_of_smoke]

Right wingers are all about cutting off their nose to spite their face and not thinking about the long-term consequences of their vote. And when the consequences of their actions are revealed, they will go and come up with some bullshit excuse why their vote didn't help build the fucked up situation they've put us in.

I'm so sorry you're dealing with this shit too.

[dolorosa_12]

Very much so, and the right-wingers in the UK are currently lining up to make excuses as to: a) why this isn't caused by Brexit, b) why no one could possibly have anticipated this (apart from the thousands of experts in hundreds of industries who had been explaining, patiently, why this was about to happen for the past five years), c) why it's not really all that bad, and d) why anyway it's remainers' fault for not believing in Brexit hard enough.

I have never been so grateful not to have ever learnt to drive, to have always lived in a household without a car, and to have consequently only ever lived in places where I can get around solely on my own two feet, or using public transport. And yet the business with ambulances not being able to refuel will affect us all — drivers and non-drivers alike. It's really dangerous!

[worlds_of_smoke]

yeah, it would be one thing if it were just everyday people who were impacted by the shortage. It would suck, but it's not literally a life-or-death situation.

[chestnut_pod]

I'm sorry you're dealing with this nonsense mishegas.

[dolorosa_12]

I'm fortunate in that thus far it's had zero effect on my life (I haven't even noticed the empty supermarket shelves that others have reported, although I don't doubt they exist — I just rarely shop in supermarkets). But that good fortune is offset by the horror of knowing that all these dreadful things are going to hit hardest the people who can least afford it.

[dhampyresa]

If you start training now you'll be able to swim over to here when shit really hits the fan lolsob

Hugs if you want them

[dolorosa_12]

But even if I make it across the water the people in this country voted to take away my EU free movement rights so I have no automatic right to residence *cries*

Hugs are very much wanted, thank you!

[trepkos]

All so true.

[dolorosa_12]

But it's worth it for the sovereignty, blue passports, and the 'will of the people.' /sarcasm

[lokifan]

Yeeeahhhhh.

[dolorosa_12]

'Sovereignty' means shortages of basic supermarket items, and queueing for hours outside a petrol station, apparently.

I have friends who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union. The similarities are striking.