Five years of Brexit banality

WHAT, do you suppose, is the traditional gift associated with a fifth anniversary? The answer could not be more fitting to mark the half decade since the United Kingdom took the momentous step to leave the European Union.

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The gift is... wood and nothing sums up better what has been successive governments' responses to what could have been an epoch-making event that might have successfully shaped the nation for generations!The reaction has been as wooden as a fence post and as flat as a plank.

This shameful inertia has been put in the halogen glare of floodlights by what the newly re-elected politician is trying to achieve across the Atlantic.

Aside from the inappropriate timing and tone of his comments about the Washington plane tragedy, Donald Trump is a leader determined to get things done.

History will judge the cabal of politicians who connived, schemed and plotted to thwart the progress of Brexit legislation, but it's hard to imagine it will garner treatment in any way more favourable than that directed to the "Rotten Parliament" of the 1830s.