I keep seeing people continue to post about BREXIT, some saying “See we told you” and others saying “The Europeans are causing us problems deliberately”.
I’m getting bored by it.
Part of the reason is that both ideas are typical of the poor science that is becoming so common in our newspapers and social media. People look for problems and then create a link to their agenda. That link may well be true. However there could be many more cases where there are benefits that people are ignoring. Looking at one side of the facts and shouting about them is just politics – it isn’t a balanced view.
And life is a lot more complicated than the political simplifications would have us believe.
There were two basic sets of rules with the EU, those related to countries in the club, those related to countries outside the club. This country were asked which set of rules they wanted and they chose the rues for outside of the club. We now have that.
People that opposed BREXIT, you voted against it because you thought this was the case. So why are you surprised?
People that supported BREXIT, you asked for the out of Europe rules to apply, they have not changed, so why do you complain about them being applied?
But just to add my experience – here is the story of my belongings from Vienna. I had a couple of boxes of mixed stuff (about £250 worth). To send them to the UK would have cost about £200. To send them to my house in Spain cost about £20. But more than that there were customs forms for shipment to the UK. If you have a pallet of the same items it is easy. But two boxes of mixed household goods requires a few pages of forms, and possibly payment of a fee before delivery. That isn’t a surprise to me – I have had to do the same when sending things to and from the USA. These are just the normal rules for anybody outside the special EU club.
This isn’t a complaint, I voted against BREXIT because I knew the rules that would be applied. I’m not surprised, and I don’t blame the EU for applying the rules we chose. This is just the life this country voted for. Complaining will not change it either way.
But the underlying issue to me is the way people like to choose the problem that proves their politics. The confrontational approach to life. The biased approach to life. Sometimes things in life do not go the way we want because we live in a society that might think different to us. Sometimes a country will vote for something we don’t agree with. Sometimes other countries will not treat us the way we want to be treated. This is life – sometimes we need to just understand we are living in a less than perfect society.