Brexit blame game

It was always going to be thus: when Brexit went wrong, it wouldn’t be the two decades worth of non-planning by Farrage and co, nor the poorly prepared for referendum win, the hastily sent A50 letter when the country is far from ready, when the Cabinet and PM 18 months later still don’t know what the end game will be. No, it must be the EU’s fault. Immigrant’s fault. Civil Servant’s fault. The Chancellor’s fault. Remoaner’s fault. Anyone but theirs.

And Lord Digby Jones yesterday tweeted that we should all stop moaning and making Michael Barnier’s job easy. And he also railed against unelected officials taking decisions out of the people’s hands. That’s Lord Digby Jones, member of the House of Lords. The unelected chamber.

Conservative MPs tweeted la la la messages at tweets referencing actual facts and figures instead of actually paying them any attention. I mean, fact based decision making, now that would be a thing.

May met the Irish President today, and was left in no doubt about the promises made in phase 1, and the need to implement them into law. They resolved to come up with some solution to the Irish border rather than regulatory alignment. But in the end that’s what it will be.

There are several speeches planned for this week, by May, Johnson and Davis. There is talk in a narrowing of differences. We shall see, Johnson was pushing his own plans in the papers yesterday again. Briefing against his own cabinet. Something that is now normal, in these extraordinary times.