Hard, Harder and Hardest

Brexit is a religion. And in such, there is the fundamental wing, in which only those who believe in the hardest are seen as the true believer. And anyone who questions the Brexit is by default an unbeliever, and must be punished or sacked.

I say this as it seems that civil service guidelines seem to require that all who work on the good ship Brexit have a positive attitude, and must not question Brexit. As that was lies failure and being burned in a wicker man.

On Tuesday, it is reported, our glorious leader will spell out HM Government's Brexit objectives, and filling in the gaps inbetween what she has said in various interviews, the Part Conference, we can assume that Brixit will be hard. Hard and painful. Although I see in one of the Tory papers today, it is described as Clean Brexit.

No matter how you dress it up, attracting business to a post-Brexit Britain will involve lower taxes, lower worker's rights and lower pay. Only this week, Conservative MPs talked down a private members' bill in guaranteeing workers rights after the split with the EU. Clearly, we're not in this together.

And as the brexit phoney war has continued, and will do so until someone invokes Article 50, this has emboldened the Brexiteers in demanding harder and harder Brexits, forcing the "three pillars of Brexit" definition onto a non-binding referendum question whether to leave the EU or not. One of the things that was expressly said the referendum wasn't about was leaving the Single Market. Only now they say it did. Brexit is a magic pill, all things to all Brexiteers, and anything can be defined as the people's will.

If the PM does firm out the Government's plan on Tuesday, and the pound and markets plunge, and the papers will spin how both are good for Britain in some way or the other.

Then there is immigration. Whether unlimited numbers of EU nationals, coming over here, working, paying taxes and doing jobs that others will not do is a good or bad thing. But Fleet Street's labeling them as EU migrants instead of EU Expats shows what they want you to think. Anyone who has had a relative in a care or nursing home in the past decade will confirm that most workers if not being EU expats are expats of some other nature, and if they are no longer allowed to work here, who will do their job? Already the Government is planning for exemptions for agriculture workers who will still be able to come over here to pick our fruit so we can have strawberries at Wimbledon.

With nurses no longer getting bursaries, and the PM blaming and threatening GPs for the crisis in the NHS rather than the massive underfunding, what hope do any of us have in the post-Brexit world? Well, if you are moneied now, you will be monied then, and so will be fine. But those who were told Brexit was about taking back control have learned this week, that such control over us is now on "tiny" islands like Malta who in the EU have as much say in the settlement of the Brexit deal as Germany of France. And certainly more than Britain.

But hey, it will be our control, control taking back control of our borders so the economy can tank and there will be mass unemployment, price rises in all including basic foodstuffs. But the Brexiteers will not admit their mistakes, but instead blame those who have raised the most basic question of the religion and beliefs of Brexit. It is they who talked Britain down, they who will be blamed for the failure to implement an impossible and stupid idea.