Little Rock   Over and over again I would ask members, organizers, activists and others, “What’s the skinny on Brexit? What’s it going to mean to us and our people?”  The answer was almost invariably a shrug and one of those looks that says, “who the heck knows?”

That’s not to say there aren’t a lot of opinions about different directions it might go and the responses many might take.  The Scottish National Party claims that they would revive their push for independence for Scotland if Brexit isn’t to their liking.  Right now, the independence effort is off the radar.  The Labour Party is letting the governing Conservative Party wallow in their own mess.  UKIP is a threat without being a real danger.   But, still no one knows what will happen to jobs and what will happen to immigration and everything connected to both of these front-page issues.

Theresa May, the Prime Minister who is still barely holding on, because no one wants this mess on their shoes, keeps backtracking on one demand after another.  She’s now agreed to pay more than a billion in old bills.  She’s guaranteed that EU residents that are living and working in the UK will be able to stay, regardless of Brexit, though the doors will undoubtedly be closing more tightly with Brexit.

Immigration continues to be the stick stirring the drink all over Europe, and an issue that the EU talks big about everyone handling their share of the weight on refugees, but there’s no enforcement, just a lot of shame-and-blame.  Meanwhile Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and right wing or so-called populist parties in France, Italy, and elsewhere are still making mischief and division over the issue.

More people cared about Wetherspoon’s being out of food and grocery stores being out of eggs and bread, than Brexit.  This looks like a continuing mess of rare proportions.