Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

So welcome to the plodcast.

This is episode 110, I believe.

Episode 110, plodcast. is episode 110 I believe.

one ten.

Plodcast.

Here you are.

If you came looking for the

broadcast, you came to the right place.

So as I'm recording this, we are coming up on next month the what has been termed by some as the hard Brexit.

Theresa May, the former Prime Minister of the UK, was never really a Brexit fan, but the British

public had voted to leave the European Union, and she was not a fan, not a believer, and so she tried to implement a Brexit that would arrange for a soft landing.

Basically, that soft landing would be working something out

with the EU that everybody would be kind of sort of happy with, which is to say the

British electorate would not be happy with.

In other words, the established bureaucrats, the established

Eurocrats, the established people who had burrowed into the woodwork of all the positions of power in modern Europe

are only going to be happy if the people whose lives they are running are unhappy

and it's getting to the point where vice versa.

So Theresa May tried to sort of have a deft or a subtle or a nuanced departure that she needed to negotiate.

But anything that made the European bureaucrats happy was not going to go down in, was not going to be approved by Parliament

and so on.

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