Emigrating is a luxury. And even then it can still be a pretty painful process for those that can do so, i would know. It’s not something i would wish on anyone.
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Setting aside the utter stupidity of Brexit, can we also pause to acknowledge the utter stupidity of both sides pretending that “health and safety” checks on goods moving between the EU and the UK have anything remotely to do with anybody’s health and safety? Nothing about Brexit has made it more or less dangerous for chilled meats to move across the Irish sea…
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To be fair, the referendum was advisory, so parliament could have taken it as an instruction to work out several alternative versions of Brexit – the Norwegian model would have satisfied the core requirement to leave the EU – and presented three of them in a second referendum.
However the swivel-eyed right wing of the Tory party hijacked the whole thing and forced nearly the hardest Brexit possible without any public consultation.
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The Veil of Farage.
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You know how half of American voters knew Trump was going to be a disaster, they were just overruled by racist reactionaries? Brexit is exactly like that. I have friends I am worried about in both countries, and none of them chose either. 
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Until the UK relaxes food safety standards and the theoretical risks to health and safety turn into actual risks.
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Many of us did. The result was 52/48 of those who voted. Are you a USian by any chance? Taking the blame for Trump are you? The rest of us could see that coming, too.
ETA Some sips of Coke to @chenille
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Considering it goes through the channel, I propose The Wet Curtain.
Alternatively, The Iron Moat
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The Turnip Trench?
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Before you know it, we’ll have chlorinated chicken 
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I’ve seen some Tories suggesting that people should have home gardens to fill in the gap, which is hilarious, as the UK doesn’t have enough arable land to feed its population, by far. Plus, outside root vegetables, grains and animals raised on pasture lands, the diet’s going to be pretty limited if forced to rely on local crops anyways.
Blaming voters for this, both as a whole and even those who voted for it, isn’t fair - the referendum was not legally binding and explicitly sold to to people as “advisory,” and it was only after it barely won did the government suddenly decide that it had never been advisory and they had no choice but to enact the will of the voters. A significant number of people cast protest votes under the reasonable belief that their vote wouldn’t make any difference.
It’s all contaminated with sewage though.
It’s not like Brexit famously had a major impact on the ability of Brits to leave the UK…
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Right…on that imaginary day, things really will be totally different.
I saw someone on Mastodon saying that there was fruit on sale in Asda proudly proclaiming that it didn’t conform to EU standards. They left it there as advertising something as not being held to a quality standard isn’t really a good thing.
You know Northern Ireland voted against Brexit right? Farmers were a big part of that.
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If this was in NI, it might just be the legal requirement under the renegotiated deal.
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Andrea Leadsom, one of the most stupid, dogmatic and ineffective ministers in a Cabinet made up of stupid, dogmatic and ineffective ministers was on the radio today and was asked about these additional costs and shortages:
‘I understand that today is a big news story because it is something that finally has come home to roost.’
She was breaking new linguistic territory by trying to use the phrase ‘come home to roost’ in a positive manner.
Leadsom is one of the dissembling ghouls who told us before Brexit that there would be no new costs or difficulties associated with their hare-brained scheme. She even went so far to say that in negotiations with the World’s largest economic bloc, the UK would ‘hold all the cards’. Guess how that turned out?
Meanwhile, this week, the IEA - perhaps the most looney toons libertarian think tank (with close links to former PM Liz Truss) published a piece pretty much denouncing how its former prize project of Brexit has ended up with the UK government having more power than ever before, taxing more heavily and breaking valuable international relationships - who’d have thunk it?
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The Twitching Curtain.
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I think I had one of them criticise me at the time of the vote, asking why a LibSoc wound vote remain and not accepting any of my answers (which mostly turned out to be a correct vision of Brexit, although Britain hasn’t Balkanised… yet).
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Maybe they can all plant potatoes…
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Most places have a long waiting list for allotments I believe.
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