Monday 11 June 2018

Monday Brexit

As each day passes, we get nearer to 29th March 2019, less than 7,000 hours to go before UK reaches the cliff edge and plunges into the sea of uncertainty. Tomorrow, the HoC debates the HoL's amendments, and today, Monday, May is to address the 1922 Backbencher committee to try to rally troops round her position.

Let us not forget, she is trying to drum up support for a policy that will make the UK poorer, a lot poorer if the headbanger route is chosen. Whatever happens, both Conservatives and Labour will put their respective parties first above what is good for the country.

As if to mark this, Landrover Group announced plans to scrap the parallel production in UK and Poland, in abandoning the line in the UK. #Project Fear anyone?

Coupled with the worse UK growth figures for 6 years, and bargain basement shop, Poundland, going into receivership as the pound's value undermined it's business model.

But don't worry, Boris tells us there will be pain and chaos but it will be worth it. And the stories of Aaron Banks' links to Russian banks and regime grow stronger after more emails were leaked from his Leave.EU offices. And remember, that his Moneysupermarket.com user's information was shared with both the official leave campaigns. Had this been done in Remain's name, and there had been less than 4% difference in the vote, there would be hell to pay and the demands for a revote or worse, would be deafening.

And all the while, Trump ramps up pressure, tariffs and rhetoric against the EU, Canada and Mexico, putting tariffs on our steel and other metals, encouraging a trade war where the world will be the losers. And this is who the Brexiteers want to trust with UK's future trade. Boris even suggesting Trump would have handled Brexit better Could hardly have done worse, but at the same time forgetting Trump is using the US's economy's size to bully. UK doesn't have that.

Of course.

Things might be clearer by the end of the week. Or not.

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