Brexit means exit, nothing less.  Britain has voted by over 17 million votes to leave the domination of the EU, to be no longer be a satrapy of that union. 

Article 50 was devised by the EU as a Gordian knot in order to prevent the subject states from escaping its dominion.  In reality, there is no need whatsoever to unravel the myriads of knots that constitute this Gordian knot.  It can be severed in one blow.

It is difficult for people in Great Britain to realize and to accept that we have already voted to be free – that is, to be independent.

Those who are younger have never known independence, and so they cannot remember a time when we made our own laws and when our Courts of Law were supreme.  The young cannot remember when we had vast fishing fleets, when our fishermen were not encumbered by regulations, which has made them cast back their fish into the sea for fear of exceeding quotas.

That is why the air of freedom, of independence, smells so strange.  So what of Article 50, by which we are supposed to declare to the EU that we are free from them and to gradually untie the knots?  In fact, it is nonsense.  The EU already knows quite well that we have voted to exit, to Brexit, to leave the EU.  So what more needs to be done?

It is very simple – by one blow of the sword, we cut the Gordian knot.  And how do we do that?  By ceasing to pay £350 million into the coffers of the EU by the week.  Now, some have scoffed at this figure – it is not correct, they say, since we get some back.  So they argue that the cost is not, say, £20 billion a year, but only £12.5 billion net.

I will leave the experts to quibble over the exact figure, but what is certain is that the sum that we pay into the EU is enormous.  Once we stop paying, we will have cut through the Gordian knot of regulations with one blow – besides which we are free; we are an independent nation and can do as we like.  Once free from this huge burden, we can prove the doubters wrong by offering immediate succor to the National Health Service, among other priorities.

In this way there will be an immediate beneficial effect for both those who voted Remain and those who voted Leave.  Hopefully, this will unite the nation and heal the real rifts within families.  We have no need to go cap in hand to the EU, but they are welcome to plead their case with us.

So while the FTSE went down and recovered, the pound has fallen against the U.S. dollar.  Some look upon this with dismay.  It will make holidays in the Eurozone slightly more expensive for Brits, but not much, as the Euro has also fallen.  But for visitors from South Africa, it is a huge blessing, as the rand has increased in value by 20%, a fact I learned only on Sunday as my own niece, husband, and two daughters were able to fly in and take advantage of better fares.  Imagine the effect for visitors from the USA.  They will be delighted to visit our shores.

As to the Eurozone, it will suffer an almighty shock.  Luckily, there are some eight nations that kept to their own currencies, including Denmark, Hungary, Norway, and Switzerland.  The shock will mostly be felt by those using the euro, such as Greece, Italy, and Spain, where youth unemployment is rife.

Our leaders still have the mindset that we must go cap in hand to negotiate terms with the EU.  But for that there is no need whatsoever.  We already have access to the Single Market, as it is called.  We voted to join a Common Market years ago.  What we did not vote for was to become a minor satrapy in the EU Super-State.  That is something the young do not quite appreciate, or at least some of them.

Some of the very rich will miss the gravy train of the EU, but they will soon recover – the mega-rich always find ways to make money.  I will not shed too many tears for them!