The field of dreams.
It would be amusing if the consequences were not so bad to witness the slowly dawning realisation amongst Brexiteers that something is wrong, but they can’t quite put their finger on what it is.
The mental gymnastics necessary to keep believing in their cause would be beyond the chief instructor in a Cultural Revolution re-education camp. But still it is better than not admitting there is a problem.
My favourite solution, so far, comes from the farming sector which, post Brexit, can’t find people to work on the land. Apparently some are looking forward to the austerity drive that will force Civil Servants out of work, so they and benefit claimants can work in the fields.
I suppose it must count as a triumph for government propaganda that such people think that the real problem is a bloated civil service, which can solve their labour shortages. But the fact is there are more job vacancies than unemployed. Anyone qualified to be a civil servant could walk into a better job than seasonal turnip picking.
The idea that Sir Humphrey Appleby is going to become Sir Humphrey Applepicker is risible.
But give them time.
They have only just realised there is a problem, they might eventually work out the cause and solution themselves.
Just don’t help them, it has to be all their own work.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
Brexit is catastrophic in so many ways, not least of which is the catastrophic failure of education that led to 37% of the electorate not recognising it was 100% lies and voting for it, and then Parliament declaring 37% to be an effective constitutional majority (the voice of the people).