I don’t belong to any political party but have been a fascinated observer of the developing political situation.The Brexit 50 pence coin meltdown is symbolic of the gradual Brexit meltdown itself as reality and disillusion hit home.
Leading pro-Brexit national newspapers have been impacted. Daily Telegraph pre-tax profits fell by 94% last year, Daily Express, sold to the Trinity Mirror Group and the former extreme Brexit Daily Mail editor moved away from its news pages.
There was a massive difference between over a million anti-Brexit marchers converging on London recently and the series of damp squib pro-Brexit protests at missing the 31st October deadline; no one turned up at all to the “huge” one in Doncaster!
UKIP have just lost their sixth leader since the 2016 Referendum.
Arguably it is the entrenched differing views of extreme Eurosceptics fighting over the shape Brexit should take that underlies this meltdown.
The opportunists like Boris Johnson seeking to exploit the situation, reducing workers’ rights, reducing environmental protection and using the NHS as a bargaining chip in post-Brexit trade negotiations with Trump, add to the general disillusion and discontent.
Andrew Milroy
