Oh the Brexiteers like Farage, Gisela Stuart, Claire Fox, Boris, Gove, Raab, Patel will probably all be celebrating their beloved Brexit. But the reality is they are going to have to deliver on their false promises or some of the people they have duped with their lies and false promises will turn on them. Even if Boris gets some very sub-par Canada style agreement with the EU, the UK economy is going to take a 5% hit, There will be a large increase in bureaucracy, there will be farmers and fishermen that have been promised better times that will quickly find out they were duped. Do not forget the 5% hit is an average ! Many will lose much more than that, maybe their jobs, youngsters will learn more about how their futures and opportunities to work in the EU countries have been undermined by the Brexiteers.

Then there is the huge waste of time and money for businesses and the government dealing with Brexit, money and time wasted to get a worse deal than we had before as a member. It will mean less money for the NHS. investment in infrastructure, schools and for the poor and unfortunate. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way. 

The good news is that Boris and the idiots he has appointed to his government who are responsible for this mess will be the ones who have to deal with it. They are not up to the job, do not expect good results. I have been telling my students to be afraid not only of the consequences of Brexit but also be afraid of what is probably the most talentless and mediocre government in living memory.

One good piece of news is that the UK is in fact a remainer country see LINK, we were denied a second referendum as the Brexiteers knew what the result would be. This means that the Brexit lacks the kind of legitimacy that a second referendum would have given the Brexiteers if they had won it. Boris won the election because a quasi communist, incompetent leader of the opposition Labour Party namely Jeremy Corbyn. Soon Jeremy Corbyn will have gone and the problems created by Brexit will start to emerge big time. The Scots may want to leave the UK, the Northern Irish will not be pleased by what Boris has in stall for them. Many UK citizens will soon realise their jobs are at risk, their cost of living is more expensive and their hospitals and schools are worse funded rather than better funded. That is going to be the reality of Brexit not the fantasy that was sold to them. So Brexiteers enjoy your Brexit but the polls will move against you, as will the population dynamics, the older Brexiteers will die out and be replaced by more pro European youngsters, It won't be too long before we start the process of getting back closer to the EU and eventually rejoining.

Since the resounding "win" for Boris Johnson in the election it is now certain that the UK will leaver the EU on 31 January 2020 . I don't really think it was a win as much as a terrible performance by the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn who prove to be a spectacularly unpopular leader of the opposition with a terrible quasi communist manifesto that lacked credibility. Anyhow since the election I have had a number of Brexiteers coming up to me saying "you lost we won" in relation to Brexit. My simple reply has been I did not lose I fought a campaign to try to get a second referendum and failed but I am proud I fought for one. My other point is that no one has "won" in fact the UK and the EU are both losers and I think time will tell me I was right on that.

he only thing that pleases me is those responsible for Brexit are now clearly in charge of the process Boris, Gove, Raab, Leadsome etc and as such will be accountable when the sunset uplands are not delivered. The impact on the UK economy will become much clearer when they do not get their great trade deals with the EU and the US and China. I the meantime there Bloomberg has issued a report suggesting that Brexit has already cost the UK £130 billion of output and there is a another £70 billion projected loss by the end of 2020 LINK  What a cost and that's before we leave the great access we already have to the Single Market and the Customs Union !

I am not going to let Boris and his foolish Brexiteers get me down. I remain optimistic that the youngsters will overturn this decision in the not to distant future. I also remain confident that the history books will look back very unfavourably on the Brexiteers and their foolish mission.