Monday 7 December 2020

The end is nigh

The EU have announced they will continue talking to the UK, but only until Wednesday this week.

And there comes a point when all sides will have to admit there is no point going on.

This morning, various Tory MPs were doing the rounds on the media trying to backtrack regarding Johnson' "oven ready deal" that what we are seeing now is no now way connected to that.

Which is a lie.

Of course.

The IMB and taxation bill aim to allow the UK Government to break any domestic and international law it sees fit in regard to Brexit.

That might be so, but there will be consequences.

Severe consequences.

The EU must learn thay cannot keep the UK tethered like some errant toddler, one said. Well, maybe if the UK stopped acting like on, then the EU might.

There is no trust in the UK keeping its word, and so governance on any deal that might be done will have to be watertight.

As many Brexiteers have said, that on January 1st the UK and Eu will have equivalence, but it was happens beyond that as the UK clearly wants to diverge from agreed current standards and how that is governed on how that affects the WA and the NI Protcol.

Remember our old friend the sliding scales of trade and control? Well, it seems the UK is going for lots of control, which means very little trade.

And yet there is still the failure on Brexiteers to understand the simple fact that Brexit is not an event, but a process. No deal woul just leave to more talks, and the first act would be the UK accepting whatever terms the EU offered to even begin them.

Its just a case of how much pain we want to inflict on ourselves before then.

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