{"id":10474,"date":"2021-10-03T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2021-10-03T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T12:04:57","slug":"daily-brexit-promises-versus-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10474","title":{"rendered":"Daily Brexit: promises versus reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Express, aka the <em>Daily Brexit<\/em> in some circles, was one of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for the English Empire (<em>which some still call the United Kingdom. Ed.<\/em>) to leave to European Union, which if not promising a land flowing with biblical milk and honey, it was at the very least holding out the prospect of one where cake could both be had and eaten.<\/p>\r\n<p>However, the reality of being a third country and the spite, nastiness and xenophobia that have exemplified the British government and media&#8217;s attitude to <em>our European friends and partners<\/em> (<em>\u00a9 part-time alleged prime minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson<\/em>) and development since 21st December 2020 have made the  Daily Brexit&#8217;s mission of being upbeat about the country&#8217;s splendid isolation more difficult, as shown by evidence from its own post-Brexit headlines.<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 28px\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 14px\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 14px;text-align: center\">How it started<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 14px;text-align: center\">How it&#8217;s going<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 14px\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 14px;text-align: center\" colspan=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10477\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/10\/daily_brexit_and_reality.jpeg\" alt=\"On the left pre-referendum headlines. On the right post-referendum reality headlines\" width=\"511\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/10\/daily_brexit_and_reality.jpeg 511w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/10\/daily_brexit_and_reality-120x300.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/10\/daily_brexit_and_reality-409x1024.jpeg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Express, aka the Daily Brexit in some circles, was one of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for the English Empire (which some still call the United Kingdom. Ed.) to leave to European Union, which if not promising a land flowing with biblical milk and honey, it was at the very least holding out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17,15],"tags":[36,33,20],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10479,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions\/10479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}