Friday 26 July 2019

Never send a boy to do a man's work

Or so said my Dad.

The point here is that Johnson's 98 day cabinet is woefully under-experienced for the task he has set for them to do.

If he actually wants the job done.

The one lesson from the last three years must be that Brexit cannot be done at speed, if at all. But Johnson is trying to get it done in 98 days.

And with all senior and junior ministers now appointed, the thing that unites most of them is that there are almost all inexperienced in the field in which they have been deployed. If Brexit is to be done, knowledge and experience is to be of a premium. And with the civil service have already moved most of its senior staff to new positions since the end of March, the idea that the country can squeeze three years no deal preparations into 98 days is laughable.

If Johnson intends to even deliver Brexit.

I mean, nothing here makes any sense.

He and his ministers are already preparing the blame game, a no deal Brexit will not be the fault of those who have dreamed and schemed for it, in some cases for decades, no it will be Johnny Foreigner in the EU for now bowing down to our demands.

This is the other lesson that has to be learned, that Brexit is not just a UK act, but is bi-partisan process that requires cooperation and compromise on both sides.

Johnson has promised Brexit on the 31st October and no general election. One of those two promises will be broken, maybe both. How will the Brexit fundamentalists react to that?

May was lauded as the new Iron Lady upon her election my Conservative MPs to be PM, in the end she was hounded out for not believing in Brexit enough. The same will happen to Johnson in the end.

The ERG will reject any possible concessions made by the EU. Johnson knows this, the EU knows this, which is why any concession will not be made.

JRM is now Leader of the House, and responsible for getting legislation through the House. Yesterday, he lit up Twitter when is guidelines for those in his department were "leaked"; only use imperial measurements, grammar rules and how to address people. Thing is, this is a distraction. What to focus on is in the background.

The new administration is in the same boat without a paddle as May's, in that it cannot introduce any legislation relating to Brexit, lest it be hijacked and have unwelcome no deal clauses into it, like the NI bill last week. So will not introduce any legislation. A Government that fails to legislate is failing in its primary task.

So, what's the point? What's the point in any of this?

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