Brexit is an island

Britain is an island, which is why Brexit is perfect. So said Chancellor Philip Hammond over the weekend. Crete is an island, so is Ireland too, and Brexit, or Irexit or Crexit is no good for them, but still. BUt otherwise did a good job of explaining why being a member of the EU is a good idea: sharing ideas, risks, values and the rest. He probably wasn't speaking for the Government that time, which is the usual excuse where Ministers and/or MPs have "mispoken".

In the meantime the Scottish Parliament have done their own analysis on the effects of the various flavours of Brexit, and they say that the best case scenario is that Scottish families will be £600 Scottish poinds worse off under Britain remaining in the SM, to being £2600 worse off with a no deal. Meaning that after the EU, Ireland, London and now Scotland, the only place not to have done, or at least published impact assessments, is Westminster.

A Scottish MEP said that the Scottish government wasn't helping things by "throwing stones" with these assessments. By which he means that actual facts and figures should not taint the perfect Brexit baby. Lest reality sneak in and reveal the emperor with not just not clothes, but no flesh either.

The next few weeks are the most important in Brexit. A chance before the final rounds of negotiations start, a chance for DD's department to reach out and say what would be beneficial for the EU in bending a bit. That DD doesn't really understand what he is doing or what international trade means or entails, he will probably end up burning more bridges with the EU and the other European Parliaments.

Anyway, I'm sure it'll all work out well in the end and we and the EU will all live happily ever after and we won't devolve into the stone age.