Wishing all those lucky enough to participate in the march to Rejoin the European Union in London today every success. Meanwhile this post from Heather Cox Richardson, American historian, grabbed my notice:

“Many observers see in the Truss debacle a condemnation of the isolationist nationalism of the past decade. This crisis, they say, has been sparked by the 2016 decision of voters in the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union, to which it had belonged since 1973, a move dubbed “Brexit”. That decision reflected the economic doldrums in the country after the 2008 crash, and the emphasis of politicians on anti-immigrant sentiment and promises to return England to a past greatness by cutting it off from the bureaucrats of Europe.

But the reality of Brexit, accomplished only in January 2020, was an economic hit worse than that from the coronavirus pandemic. Britain’s instability has also weakened the European Union, making it harder for Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to stand against Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Today, foreign observers blame Brexit for the instability in the U.K. Writing in France’s newspaper Le Monde, Sylvain Kahn said “Since the referendum, British governments have demonstrated, with ever greater talent, that Brexit only takes the UK further away from the promised land of recovered sovereignty and untrammelled freedom. ‘Take back control!’ they all said. But the British are a very long way from doing that. No other EU member is in such a state…. Yet since Brexit, Britain’s Conservative leaders have worked tirelessly to prove that EU membership was very far from the problem.”

PS Chanterelles collected by Sandra from our own domains by Sandra who has now pickled some of them for future consumption. Let us enjoy these mushrooms which are happily growing in our local forests unlike their poor brothers who are raised in the dark and fed bullshit….like too many inhabitants of Brexitania.