Brexit.

There he is! Old Banksie! Chipping away at the flag of The European Union; no longer a union between Britain and the rest of Europe. There is his latest mural - in Dover. How does he get them there?

Oh well back to being a country of servitude.

I have a lot of friends in America, a lot of them who read this, and I am constantly being asked about Brexit so without showing too many of my colours or opinions I will try to explain.

First of all the word: a new word, certainly not a beautiful word; there are beautiful words and one of my favourite beautiful words doesn't exist – it's capiliary. I love it and if you split it up and say capil I ary you should see and feel the rhythm of it as the real word is capillary. Baldy old capillary – if it was Spanish it might stand a chance in the aesthetics of language as they would do something with the double L – or even Welsh as they do things with the double L too but you have to almost speak with a lisp to pronounce a lot of the Welsh words like Llandudno – a sideways lisp as opposed to the tongue on the hard palette one which is the less rarer of the two.

But Brexit: two words really Britain and Exit. Good job it wasn't Ireland leaving as it would sound like an eating disorder. - think about it!

Briefly the EU started off as a pact between a few of the European countries who were at war and victims of war so France, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany formed a union. 

It had various titles, over the years, and in 1973 Great Britain joined through the then Conservative Government.

The Labour Party (Her Majesty's Opposition) were against it and when they were elected in to office, in 1974, they called for a referendum (a plebiscite) to see if the electorate wanted to stay in or not; the result was in favour of remaining and at that time the Brits called it The Common Market and to lots of people, including me, that is what it is still called.

But there were always moaners, people complaining about silly rules and which was what probably brought Britain's membership to an end.

That and immigration.

One of the things about living in Britain now, which I like, is that there is a variety of people living here from other countries. As well as people from the British Commonwealth there are people from the rest of the EU which numbers 28 countries.

So when we go out now, in the cities, we can meet a host of nationalities which, to me, is wonderful. There are beautiful women from all over the world, which I have noticed, and a lot of attractive men - which I haven't noticed that much. These inhabitants have introduced new food to the country. No longer do we have nothing to look forward to but a lamb chop with boiled potatoes and peas in the evenings, or some other kind of meat and two veg. Now we can, sample the delights of some of the most wonderful food in the world: Italian, Indian, Chinese, Spanish, Mexican . .oh you name it.

Today we will be eating Lebanese Food for dinner. Fifty years ago it was egg and chips.

So to Brexit: the right wing, since that first referendum, didn't like the EU. There were Euro Skeptics in the Conservative Party – the right wing – and they broke away and formed an extreme Right Wing Party called UKIP – the United Kingdom Independence Party – which called for Britain to withdraw from Europe.

Whilst they didn't win any seats in Parliament they nearly did; almost did - but they didn't. People usually complain about the British system of government with the first passed the post system but you know: sometimes it's useful if it stops certain people from being elected.

 But even though UKIP didn't win any seats in The House of Commons (apart from one they inherited) they were chipping away at Conservative Membership so after the election in 2015 the Coalition Government (Conservative and Lib-Dem) gave in and promised a referendum to see if the electorate wanted to remain or leave. 

This was to save The Conservative Party so last year we had the referendum and the vote – even though it should never have been for anything less that a 60/40 majority – resulted in a vote to leave.

It might seem strange to Americans that the Liberals would join up with the Conservatives but Liberals here are in between Conservative and Labour (middle of the road - no man's land) unlike in America where Liberals are almost communists and socialists – heaven forbid!!

But we were subjected to some of the nastiest people you can think of; one of them murdered a young woman politician who was singled out for attack as a "passionate defender" of the European Union and immigration. The murderer viewed his victim, a Labour MP, as one of the collaborators; a traitor to white people.

This was very hard to believe in this day and age in Britain.

So that's it – we, the royal we, are leaving. We will no longer have financial passporting, freedom of movement and some of us might not even be able to receive our pensions from abroad – we don't know.

In fact there's a lot we don't know - or didn't know - for instance leaving something that you have committed financially to might mean having to honour that commitment – like one hundred billion pounds (or even Euros) which is one of the things what we/they didn't know about before the referendum.

The number of British citizens registering to be citizens of other countries is at an all time high here – Ireland, Italy and Germany I have heard tale of, so that's the explanation.

I hope the people who voted to leave enjoy their lamb chops, new potatoes and peas.