Today my thoughts are about as reverent as

[Suff]

Essentially because we still do 42% of our export trade to the EU, we are tied into many different treaties and organisations through the EU and we have a situation with the NI border. Whilst it has been a couple of decades, the situation in Stormont, witnessed by the constant failure to create a quorum, is not all that stable.

We could just walk and in many ways it would be better to just walk and take the pain. However, if we can avoid the pain and achieve the same end result of exiting the EU, then 50 or 60 billion is not such a heavy price to pay. We bailed our banks out to the tune of 95 billion yet, are we saying, that we can't afford a hundred billion to protect our trade for a decade or two?

Yes I believe banging out of the EU is far preferable to some toxic relationship where the UK is tied to a rotting corpse of a trade agreement which will poison our trade and our businesses. But I do not believe that sensationalism or self interest should get in the way of trying to make the exit as painless as possible.

A no pain exit is impossible. The EU is designed to push out everyone who does not submit. If we won't submit we must be pushed out. The negotiations are about how long that will take and how much adjustment our businesses and economy need to do.

My point, with this post, was that everyone, not just the UK, was lied to over this referendum. Everyone has been manipulated and the biggest impact is going to be seen by the remaining 27 states. Not the UK. My point was that the EU has used the Brexit situation to tie the rest of the EU into knots and the big stick they are wielding is the €15bn Each Year, they are going to have to find to fill the void left by the UK. A number, I note, that keeps on going up as each few months goes by. As the EU discovers just exactly how much money they blew off by refusing to engage with Cameron on the UK issues with the EU.

As the people of the EU wake up and realise that real taxes are going to go up to fund the loss of the UK net contribution, heads are going to roll. As the people of the EU wake up and realise that their own governments are being bound into EU wide statutes which limit the power of member states to set laws at home, or lose even more money, heads are going to roll.

Whilst the UK press and the UK parliament and the UK people, obsess over their relationship with the EU and how it will all go; the people remaining in the EU are having fundamental changes made to their lives under a threat of severe economic mayhem.

That, in the grand scheme of things, is world shaking for the rest of the EU. But things go on as ever. The UK plays out it's own internal dramas whilst ignoring the entirety of the situation in the EU. Which is exactly why I would have voted to leave. I could have, but I did not. That was my choice because my own personal belief is that you do not leave your home country then demand to keep the vast majority of that country hostage to your own personal choices. Unlike the vast majority of the UK ex pats around me who are whinging like hell because they're going to have to do something about their situation.

Honestly, it's better than TV satire.