Tuesday 30 July 2019

Johnson

Each day I try to focus on one, or sometimes more, parts of the world of Brexit in order to explain what it is all so fucked up and/or wrong.

Today it is the trope that Johnson is expressing, that sheer boundless belief in Brexit will get the job done, planning apparently has little part to play.

Or more specifically, detailed planning.

Turbocharged planning, turbocharged this and that are all he spouts, and the more the planning the less bad the end result, but nothing, really, on detail.

There is turbochaged planning to help Welsh lamb farmers, and the more the planning there is, the less the effect the farmers will feel, but the reporter did not press what those detailed plans would be.

Maybe that is because all the local media were banned from interviewing Johnson during his visit. Or to bemore accurate, they were banned from filming either the media pool questions of the one on one interviews there were to be allowed. Both BBC and ITV local news refused to interview Johnson if they could not film it, just read out what Johnson said.

Johnson's plan is simple, and see if you can spot the flaw in it:

1. Negotiate a new WA with no backstop in it.

2. Refuse to negotiate unless the EU gives in to his demand to remove the backstop.

He ways, with no hint of irony, that is his and his Government's intention that the UK leaves the EU with or without a WA on 31st October come what may, but whats to renegotiate the WA, but say he wants to do that and in a way the EU would never agree to.

A course of action that puts the UK on a no deal Brexit course.

Other ministers have said that if the UK leaves without a WA then it will be the EU's fault, not theirs for having no plan.

Johnson wants us all to be jolly positive and get behind his "plan" and anyone who doesn't is just a miserable so and so.

This is not going to end well.

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