Imagine Brexit fell under the Consumer Rights Act.....
"Triiiiiinnnng"
SK "Yes, Sir, how can I help you?"
C "Hello, I was sold this Brexit here and I'm bringing it back because it doesn't appear to be working."
SK "Hmm, let me take a look...."
C "It was supposed to provide £350M every week for the NHS.
It was supposed to be an oven-ready deal, but it just looks and smells like a bag of 5hit.
We were supposed to get fantastic trade deals, but the person in charge skived off a scrutiny meeting because none of the trade deals were anywhere as good as claimed.
These trade deals were supposed to mean free-flowing movement without huge charges, mountains of paperwork or long queues.
I was told we would be free of Draconian EU food safety regulations, that turned out to be developed by us and have not changed at all.
We were told we could have our blue (black?) passports back (designed by a Franco/Dutch company and produced in Poland), be able to use imperial measurements and to put a symbol of our beloved Lizzie back onto pub glasses.
The latter two we could have done before leaving.
So, as you can see, the product is not fit for purpose."
SK "Sir, I am told that things will get better, given time."
C "I can't see how. The systems are broken. Lies and deceit were used to sell this product and it was very shoddily put together."
Now, at this point, you would be requesting a full refund.
But we can't undo Brexit. People voted on the basis of a load of downright lies. "Get over it, you lost" does not come into it. Brexit was grossly mis-represented, mis-sold, was not fit for purpose and (if it were a product or service for sale) broke the Trades Descriptions Act. Multiple times over.
If you read the story of Brexit in a magazine in, let's say 2010, you would have come to the conclusion that that level of deception and skulduggery could only have come from a shady government in a country you have never heard of.
Brexit is nothing to be proud of. We haven't got anything better than we had before. On the contrary, things have got worse. And without changes to the systems, they will not get better.
Brexiteers were lied to. Remainers were lied to. We were all stitched up, like that kipper Joris was waving around.
How does that make you feel?
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