With all of the Covid craziness of the past six months – it’s easy to forget there’s another whole heap of crazy happening just next door.
And it’s about to get extremely messy.
Remember Brexit? The UK’s bonkers attempt to defy the laws of gravity and return to the good old days when the sun never set on the British empire (mainly because God couldn’t trust the English in the dark)?
Well, this week should see the fantasy finally collide with reality as negotiations between the UK and the EU reach crunch point.
So far, the British approach has been a lot like seeing English tourists in Marbella, repeatedly shouting “Do you do sausage and chips, mate!?” in an increasingly louder voice until the waiter gets it.
Meanwhile, our friends in the North (at least those in the DUP) are having to deal with the fact that when their great mate Boris vowed there would never be a border down the Irish sea, what he actually meant was there would definitely be a border down the Irish sea, sorry about that chaps!
The likes of Sammy Wilson (sadly for the DUP, considered to be the brains of the operation) were bought and sold by the Tories like a cheap pair of Union Jack Y-fronts.
They got played and betrayed. A 10-year-old could have seen it coming.
Sammy now says he wants the entire Brexit deal scrapped. Which is the opposite of what his boss Arlene wants. But it doesn’t really matter because nobody is listening to these guys anyway – the good ship Brexit Britain has sailed on and Sammy and Arlene are left marooned on their little desert island, waving their little flags.
It would all be hilarious if it wasn’t so dangerous for Ireland.
A crash-out, no-deal Brexit would bring further chaos to the UK economy and huge problems for us, as the poor eejits unlucky enough to be living next door to a bunch of raving lunatics.
Micheal Martin and our new Government haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory – it’s been a clown show from day one.
They’ve got to get their act together now because a no-deal crash-out Brexit, on top of six months of Covid-19 chaos, could cause the kind of damage that would make the last economic crash look like an episode of Strictly Come Dancing.
There’s rarely been a moment of danger for our nation like we are now facing.
If Leo, Micheal and the rest of them don’t step up and start playing senior hurling – they will never be forgiven.
