By: Yasmin

With regards to Brexit: Johnson doesn’t want to show weakness by giving in. This whole thing started as a way for the UK to relive their “glory-days” of the British empire. What the UK is asking is all of the benefits and non of the work or payments. They’re never getting it, not in the least because the EU needs to be strict to discourage other states from leaving.

So we’re risking returning to a civil war (putting a “hard” border in between Northern-Ireland (UK) and Ireland (EU) is breaking the Good Friday agreement that ended the troubles) over fish and cheese. Possibly even breaking up the UK, since there hasn’t been this much support for Scottish independence in a very long time (they want to stay in the EU).

Thankfully you elected Biden. He doesn’t want to see war return to Ireland, and will likely side with the EU. Johnson can’t come crying to Trump and get a good deal out of it. Johnson is probably happy that he can blame some of the economic fallout on the COVID crisis. It might get bad for a while, with food shortages and massive traffic jams at the borders.