This time its for real.

On Wednesday, the Government published what it said was its white paper of leaving the EU. The day before, 24 hours before the white paper was published the House of Commons voted in favour of the Governemtn in triggering Article 50.

Let that sink in for a while.

That the White Paper amounted to re-publishing the PM's speech from two weeks back and the rest a cross between a wish list and fairy tale. Our friends in the 4th estate thought it all fine and dandy. I won't pick it apart, as the time to do that has passed, as the vote was ayed.

The Government had since 24th of June last year to come up with the White Paper, that the time stamp on the PDF that was released showed it last updated at 04:23 that morning. This is last minute cramming for a maths test by a lazy student, escalated into Government policy that will affect us, our children and grandchildren for decades. The process of how Britain got into such a messed up position with neither the Governement or 4th estate admitting it is something that will be raked over for decades to come. On Tuesday, before the vote, MP after MP spoke up saying what a bad idea it all was, only to vote for the Government, not even Corbyn's opposition could be bothered to oppose.

The obvious question of Labour now, is what is it actually for if it won't fight for worker's and EU expat's rights? Just nod along? Then you have ceased to be relevant.

In the next week, various committees will discuss the bill, maybe try to get amendments added, but that will probably fail. In which case it seems to be the PM's intention to trigger Article 50 on the 8th March. As it stands, no one knows if it is reversible once triggered, it will be a plunge into the heart of the sun with no escape.

I hope I am wrong in thinking this is going to be nothing less than a disaster, part of me wants it to happens to see the chaos that is about to engulf the country. If they can't produce a white paper without the most basic of mistakes (it stated that after Brexit, Britain would have 16 weeks annual vacation), then what hope do we have in years of complicated, multilateral, simultaneous trade negotiations whilst trying to keep the economy from tanking. David Davis doesn't know what a non-tariff barrier is, maybe he will in two years time.

If our hope is a trade deal with Trump's America, then we really are screwed.