Sunday 21 January 2018

More weekend Brexit

As reality surrounds the covered wagons of Brexit, there are some, amazing Boris and Nigel, who see that Brexit is getting unsustainable, and say they can see the need for a second referendum to legitimise the whole darn thing. And there are those who will defend precious Brexit with the last breath in their bodies, but mostly by signing a letting saying the PM must honour the referendum and not stay in the SM. Ting is, of course, SM wasn't mentioned. So, round and round we go, and all the time the sands of time are slipping through our fingers.

M. Macron yesterday mooted the idea of a special deal for UK, but this was jumped upon with great joy by the right leaning press, only for his to say that there can be no cherry picking to have a defacto SM membership but without the paying and responsibility, just like the EU has always said. Not to say there is room for tinkering round the edges, but for the most part, and we can be sure of this, the four freedoms are red ines that will nver be crossed or compromised.

And then there is the fact that every time May speaks about the case for strengthening the bonds between the EU and UK post Brexit, all she does is make the case for remaining. Whic is what she campaigned for the in the first place.

And meanwhile at Labour HQ, the Shadow Chancellor is still dealing in semantics saying not member of, but access to and a SM not the SM, as it means anything other than delaying the time when Labour has to decide whether is is going to honour it's 2015 manifesto pledge to remain, or push for some ill-defined people-first Brexit bollocks he and Jezza have been saying for months now.

Make no mistake, time is sort, and getting shorter. Britain has to decide what it wants to transit to, and at the same time think about what kind of deal it is going to be able to sell to the Cabinet, Government and Parliament before then trying to stand up to the owners and editors of the papers and explain to the people Brexit was always just the promise of unicorns. And it now seems likely that the papers owners love of Brecit coincided with the EU ant0-tax evasion laws that were introduced in 2015. All this so a few billionaires could avoid some tax? Wars have been fought on less.

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