Irexit?

Today, the panic that surrounds Brexit got worse, with one of the Brexit supporting groups, the IEA, suggested, among other things, that in the event of a no deal that the UK should drop all import checks. All.

Bearing in mind one of the so called main points of Brexit was to reintroduce control. Now, abolishing checks is the exact opposite of control, and yet none of the Brexiteers see any problem with all of this.

Another idea is that Ireland should also leave the EU to solve the issue of the Irish border. This is being suggested in all seriousness, why should another country join in with this madness?

So, that apart there is no solution to that thorny problem.

And May herself made a speech on Friday in which she claimed that as she had come up with the Chequers paper, it was now up to the EU to come back with something. Quite what this something should be was left unsaid. But as it is the UK doing the leaving, then surely the onus is on her and the UK to come up with an alternative plan, you know, get the Brexiteers together and ask how they thought this was going to be sorted out, not that they have a Scooby.

The Irish Border issue is easy to fix practically, but politically impossible. You decide what kind of border you want, and have the Brexit, or no Brexit that meets those requirements. Wanting to have no hard border yet wanting to leave the CU, SM and tax agreements means that a hard border is needed, you can’t have both. But having the Brexit, or no Brexit that allows no infrastructure is politically impossible or acceptable, even from the Dup who props May up, they want both things too.

And labour, well, fucked it up again by agreeing to have a referendum only if there is no Election, and that referendum having no option in remaining. Therefore, Labour’s policy is to vote against May’s plan, and without no leave option, would support a no deal?

As I have said so may times, Corbyn wants to force UK to leave the EU, for very different reasons to May’s Brexiteers, but leave is the same. Corbyn advocates a “job’s first Brexit” without really explaining what that meant, and in reality, the way jobs would be protected is to remain, which Corbyn doesn’t want. So with the majority of Labour voters voted to remain, and more members switching over sides to remain, but the party won’t support what their members wants.