I voted to fuck around, not to find out
I have here pretty much the ultimate Brexit voters:
A British couple in their 60s have bought a bargain €15,000 (£13,000) three-bedroom house in Italy for their retirement – but they cannot get a visa to live in it because of post-Brexit travel rules.
Greg Walter, from Winchester, says he voted for Brexit, but now feels betrayed.
“We were told Brexit was not going to impact our life abroad, that it would be just a matter of formality,” Mr Walter, who used to work in construction, told i.
“People who had second homes in Europe, or planned to buy one, were never given the correct information on the vote outcome.”
He and his partner, Steph Appleton, purchased an old dwelling in the picturesque town of Latronico in the Basilicata region of southern Italy last year and want to relocate to the quiet village, surrounded by lush vegetation, to enjoy a laidback lifestyle.
Look, when it comes to ordinary voters believing the lies of politicians I try — not always successfully — to put more blame on the con artists than the marks. But when it comes to these “who could possibly have predicted that voting for Brexit would adversely affect my unfettered access to countries in the European Union” dipshits I will definitely make an exception.
Brexit being exactly the negative-sum outcome for the UK it was always obviously going to be is also an excellent illustration about why the “anti-establishment” political orientation is a childish dead end.