April 5, 2023

With more travel woes this weekend and general economic misery in the UK, one MP (actually satirist Rosie Holt) bravely insists that we should all stop blaming Brexit for Brexit.

INTERVIEWER: "Do we need, after Brexit to just get used to this happening at busy periods?"
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MP ROSIE HOLT: "The thing is, in times of acute pressure of people all wanting to go across the channel, there is a massive backlog and that's because every passport was having to be scanned and stamped because of Brexit, but that's not because of Brexit. And I think we've got to move away from this Brexit-blaming culture."

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