Had Brexit delivered on any of the promises that were made during the Referendum campaign, surely Brexiters would want us to talk about it. Secretary of State for Business Kemi Badenoch’s plea for us to stop talking about Brexit, surely is the clearest admission of failure there can be. The view that Brexit was a mistake is now consistently – and by a 20% point margin – the majority view.ĭeep down Brexiters know it too of course.

This week, the Parliament debated an online petition asking for a public inquiry into the impact of Brexit that had been signed by over 180,000 people. The British public, however, increasingly seems to be connecting the dots between the countries’ many woes and the single biggest change to its position in the world economy in over a generation. The Telegraph seems to be spewing out columns and editorials at an increasing pace trying to explain why post-Brexit Britain is busted rather than booming blaming the ‘ Europhile establishment,’ the civil service, and the ‘ Nanny state’ for the lack of positive impact of our departure from the EU on the British economy and society.

Indeed, pro-Brexit politicians and media outlets seem to have gone into overdrive to defend the indefensible. This is not even mentioning the real ‘wicked problems’ like the destruction of our natural environment (including our water) in the name of deregulation and an ill-understood pro-business attitude after Brexit.ĭespite the distress signals, Brexiters want us to be patriotic and believe in sovereignty, as Tory MP Adam Holloway explicitly stressed this week during the parliamentary debate about a public inquiry into the impact of Brexit. Britain currently has the worst economic growth forecast among the G7 countries, the highest inflation amongst advanced economies, and is facing a myriad of other massive problems, such as its broken and parasitical housing and renting market, which is pushing families out of the most expensive areas like the capital, where primary school closures are the result.

Silence of the Wolves by Hannah Pole