February 2024 - Reboot Britain

Don Adamson reports in his unique style from his Brexit Bunker in Barnsley.

Brexit’s bitter taste

… Grease Bogg promised Brexit would bring cheaper food … UK government failed to build the facilities or develop the software … let us park our disbelief that Grease Bogg is owning up … Brexit is not working …. industry is warning that neither it nor government is ready for seismic change … red tape will add £330M to the cost of food imports … figure does not allow for delays … real cost much higher … crisis … lack of veterinary capacity … 8 years on, importers still waiting to hear how much it will cost … potential threat to viability of small and medium sized businesses … long delays … damage to plants … system is likely to collapse on day one … none of this was necessary before Brexit … higher prices and shortages …

With apologies to Paul McCartney.

Immediate reaction of European leaders to a Labour general election victory would be a sigh of relief

… fears that other countries would copy Brexit have evaporated … Keith Starmer has promised not to reverse Brexit … Johnson’s Brexit trade deal of 2020 massively favours the EU … EU officials are nervous of Labour cherry picking bits of the Single Market that it likes without taking the associated obligations … Wars … tensions with Russia and China underline the need to stick together … None of this would satisfy those around Keith Starmer who want to Rejoin the EU … EU is changing fast … expanding to include eastern neighbours (possibly Ukraine) … New Labour government unlikely to transform relations with EU … post Brexit chaos … lingering effects of Brexit …
Tory Party preaches ‘personal responsibility’

but blames everybody and everything else for the failure of Brexit.
Politicians on the right obsess about refugees

… current numbers barely represent a trickle …

Two minutes on fixing immigration.

Worst of Tory created council cash crisis yet to come

… for 14 years Tories have played a cynical game … fiscal austerity … double digit inflation … prices for ‘outsourced’ services got through the roof … same mixture of rising need, reduced central government funding … budget sclerosis and fragility … even small events can lead to sudden collapse … council tax … designed on the back of an envelope when Thatcher’s hated poll tax collapsed … massive arrears building up … until the UK gets real … even the reform of Council Tax won’t work … crisis is only going to worsen … council confronting situations over which they have no control …

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Brexit is a total disaster of our own making

… crisis for British manufacturers about to get worse … Brexit has thrown obstacle after obstacle into our path … added red tape at great cost … pain of UKReach, copycat version of EU regulatory framework … have to test and register all its chemicals both in EU and UK … pointless, massively expensive duplication … makes EU based companies think twice about doing business with Britain … why accept the added costs, why bother? … tip of the iceberg … German firms will not touch Britain with a barge pole … ‘I have said that to this government so many times, it is like talking to a Labrador’ … no idea at all … Brexit is a continuing expense and a continual drain … getting new business is not as simple as it used to be … it does not look like Brexit was a temporary blip … wants a similar deal to Northern Ireland … chances of getting a similar deal are zero … government does not care and will not listen … things are getting worse … UK used to be an attractive staging post for access into EU … UK will fall further behind EU and USA … UK cannot compete … another plea that falls on deaf ears … British government is not interested in the facts … does not listen and does not care … lectures on ‘Brexit opportunities’ that do not exist except in minister’s minds … tells them to adjust to new realities of a harder, harsher life … argue that the pain is worth as the price of sovereignty … his response speaks for us all ‘Ah Jesus’ …

Don Adamson Pip Pip Medway Delta (Retired) Brexorcist and Saboteur First Class

“Take Back Control” – a remake of Je T’aime moi non plus, based around Brexit bollocks.

The Overton window describes the range (or window) of policies that the public will accept. It is used by politicians to win elections through campaigning on issues that lie inside the window. Although the concept is neutral, like most things, mankind and especially politicians have attempted to manipulate things inside and outside the window for their own personal gain since humanity began. A few examples illustrate the problems of moral hazard.

Brexit manipulation

In 2014, hardly anyone cared about our membership of the EU, apart from a few politicos in the Tory party and some think tanks who feed the media with lies. In doing so they feed popular culture about what people care about through the media. Fast forward to 2016 and David Cameron completely misjudged the Brexit referendum on two counts : He thought he would lose the GE and not have to keep the promise of a referendum and ; He did not see how Nigel Farage would weaponise 6 years of austerity through blaming foreigners for people’s feelings of being left behind. Result : a 52:48 vote instead of 60:40 in favour of remaining (source UKICE).

The illusion of small boats

In 2020, the perceived problem of small boats was almost non-existent. The far right moved the boats into the Overton window through manipulation of the press when the actual problem of illegal migration remains relatively small. At the same time, ALL the political parties have moved BREXIT out of the window with the illusion that “Brexit is done” when the truth is far from this. All have colluded in this piece of mass manipulation since they do not wish to fight another General Election on the “B word”. However, we are living with all the offspring of Brexit as our iceberg demonstrates. The issue does not go away just because politicians and the media have airbrushed it out of existence. And it is always best to deal with root causes of problems. Brexit remains a major contribution to broken Britain, when Sunak, Starmer, Davey et al would rather have you believe that we are at war and so on.

When one considers the global finding that the majority of people who voted for Brexit were more susceptible to being lied to, due to general intelligence levels, the Overton Window is an important concept. It’s even more important that our politicians and media people tell us the truth about difficult issues.

It is well known that it is much easier to influence people of lower general intelligence. It’s not decent tho.

Who moved my Overton window?

The lessons here are :

Do not let Brexit slip away from the Overton window. It’s a one way trip!

Always ask questions when politicians try to move issues into the public consciousness. What do they NOT want you to think about?

Continue to mass Brexorcise people using our guide to the process.

It’s entirely fair to bring truth into the Overton window. Join Gina Miller’s True and Fair party for ethical politics.

And so on.

BEWARE : By writing this article, I myself am trying to move the Overton window back to the long term issues facing our children. In other words to counter lies with the truth.

Movers and shakers of the window

The latest gaslighter is Kemi Badenoch, a major racist, hiding under the cloak of equalities minister. Watch this superb film from Rob Burrows, which exposes her Overton window-shifting ways: