Brexit or Breaksit?

[Dartz]

They act like Europe is the evil empire for refusing to give them everything they want on leaving - while failing to acknowledge that they have no idea what the fuck they want - and that, quite frankly, when placed in a similar situation the UK's first response has always involved a massacre or two. Or three. Before finally just getting bored with it and going 'These are the terms you will accept, now piss off'.

Europe's big issue right now - and it's something the governments can't seem to understand - is that people don't live according to statistics. As much as the numbers say GDP is up, unemployment is down and all that, it's altogether a better economy. But it isn't - when the cost of living is skyrocketing, the housing market and rental market is collapsing, and the margin between living securely and being under constant week-to-week threat is growing tighter and tighter.

What's pissing people off is that governments don't seem to get that one simple fact. What matters is the topline numbers.

But in a lot of ways it's like paint on the rust. It's the polished veneer on a rotten table. It's a pair of 90 euro Beats headphones. Sure it looks great but underneath the whole thing is cracked, rotted and made of plastic cheese with lead weights to make you think it's 'quality'.

It's like the frame of a car. It's rusted through and utterly, structurally fucked to the point where the only thing holding it straight is the roof and the driveshaft, but it's been patched and painted and the NCT man cant see it under the plastic guards so the NCT man gives it the roadworthy tick and it drives off for another year.

There's no way anyone can afford to fix it, but it still looks good and shiny on the surface, keeps up appearrances and so long as you don't hit a pothole too hard it'll be grand.

Everyone is misereable. Everyone is stressed. Every bit of value is being squeezed from your life, while nothing is coming back.