We all knew what we were voting for
Sep. 26th, 2021 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12So 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.'
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.'
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Date: 2021-09-28 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-28 04:33 pm (UTC)I have friends who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union. The similarities are striking.