Midweek Brexit

Its been a funny couple of days in Brexitlalaland, as more leaks of the DExEU’s are they or are they not impact assessments show that all regions of Britain will be worse off than they would have been had UK stayed in the EU, and in the various flavours of Brexit, with the no deal scenario meaning London would be 8% worse off, and the North East some 17% worse off. The odd thing is that the areas of the country that voted strongest for Brexit will be worse off.

Lots of turkey for Christmas then.

It also revealed that many sectors of the economy will be worse off, some worse off. No shit.

These are still preliminary results the PM told us, but as before, the PM’s target deal has less access to the EU markets than SM or CU membership, we can safely says it will deliver worse results.

Today, a delegation of Japanese business visited 10 Downing Street and made it clear they were invited to do business in Britain because of frictionless access to EU markets. Without the former makes the latter impossible. Stakes are high she was told.

Like this should be news to the PM and her band of brave Brexiteers shows how little they really did know.

It was also revealed that some of the Brexiteers, yes you JRM, will be richer as a result of Brexit. Now would that explain why he is so keen? Surely not putting himself first?

And at PMQs today, May refused to confirm that the NHS would not be part of any trade deal with the US.

Those nice people over at the DUP ramped up the pressure by tweeting “No Surrender to the EU”, a version of this was a popular tune with English football thugs back in the day, so equating the EU with the IRA? Nice one, and who said that Brexit could not restart “the troubles”?

The EU part published its guidelines on the proposed transition deal, and has made a condition that if Britain did not keep its word, UK would be denied any access to the (or a) SM. DD is shocked that the EU could have so little faith in UK’s word. Now what could have caused that Mr Davis? Well, trying to renege on the December deal done with the EU the day after it was reached.

And the Irish border still is not fixed. It was fudged in December to be agreed later, and Eire have said that it must be an open border or else no deal with the EU. I really do find it impossible to see how Brexiteers could have forgotten about the only land border with the EU and UK and think it would just fix itself or something would turn up. If nothing can be done to fix it, full alignment is the only way forward. And that is BINO, Brexit name only.