We have seen furious moans and rants on Brexit for such a long time, I've got to the point that I find the 6 o'clock BBC news hilarious. Things sound so bad and chaotic it's funny. People always pay more attention to negative news rather than positives, but the Brexit news has so many reasons to cause chaos, and to keep us raging continuously until we leave Europe. Yes, 'until' we leave, not so much after. Because we British are driven by 'anticipation anxiety'. We love to speculate the worst possible outcome and blame it on someone else's decision or action. We keep doing that until the event happens. Once it's happened and over, we'll quickly move on to find the next future event to rant about.
Do you remember London Olympics 2012, it was supposed to be the most shambolic Olympic host in history? The stadium wasn't supposed to be ready in time for the events. London underground trains weren't supposed to be capable of carrying hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors every day during the events. Road infrastructure wasn't supposed to be durable. Not enough security staff, not enough budgets... Oh it was going to be the most embarrassing 2 weeks - so we were told. But was it?
Speculation, Speculation, Speculation
Self proclaimed economic experts who pop up on media debates and sites such as Quora - they tell us so much in detail with bullet-points worth of worst outcomes. What are they doing that for? It's too late now, we're leaving the EU. Stop pretending like you've known it all since before we voted to leave. We know they're desperate to convince us they know something, because gloom speculations always sound more credible than optimistic speculations. It's a defence mechanism too, if they say it's going to be great and it isn't, they'll take the blame. Big events on a nationwide scale like Olympics and Brexit. Or hurricane / tsunami / earthquake warnings. Say we might see the worst and if we don't, it's okay. But say we'll be safe and if we're not, they'll be branded as a liar.
Brexit Latest News
The news I heard today was "Toyota says no-deal Brexit would stall production at Burnaston". Hang on a minute? Haven't we heard that before? We already knew that Japanese car companies might pull out from Britain if Brexit doesn't go well. And here's another "they say they will do if..." news.
I burst out laughing when I heard it - we really do hear too many similar reports day-in, day-out. Brexit is the hottest topic I know, it's about the future of the country and news programmes are obliged to insert at least one Brexit-related news. Some of which are even trashy.
- "Deal or No Deal" speculation: If we have no deal with EU, we will be doomed.
- "We'll lose our business" speculation: Factory owners say they will no longer be able to use a cheap labour from Europe and their business will be in trouble.
- Politicians and their parties' squabbles - people LOVE hearing them and crying over them!
Factory shutdowns - be it! It it doesn't happen for Brexit, it will happen for something else. 3,000 Toyota staff's job at risk - be it! You can't be beaten by a redundancy. I've been there but I've always found a way to survive. The world is changing in fas pace with or without Brexit. The news is clearly trying to divide us rather than to unite us, then we can't take it seriously. We'll all find a way to survive - if you don't believe it, just shut up and wait, stop moaning.
