Leaving the past behind

Vote Leave and Dominic Cummings in particular, are trying to leave their past behind then. In that they are deleting tweets, blogs, webpages that state, clearly, that they employed Cambridge Analytica to crunch numbers and target advertising on social media.

Last week it emerged that CA were willing to do anything to help the organisations that paid the right price, including hiring prostitutes to frame media figures.

Doubt had been cast on whether the Electoral Commission really had given Leave permission to part fund the other main leave group, despite repeated challenges to post the proof that the EC did give them permission has failed for Cummings to provide it. Now it seems there might be truth in that, in which case it is likely the referendum was being overseen by an organisation that did not uphold electoral law. But whether they did or didn't is yet to be revealed, but there are FOI requests and challenges towards Cummings to come clean.

You can imagine of the Remain campaign had partaken in these dark arts there would have been hell to pay, but as it's Leave, it is mostly deflection onto others, or a plain and simple, nothing to see here, move along please. Certainly Boris thinks so, and we all know his relationship to reality and truth.

This week sees the UK halfway through the A50 process, and Britain no nearer knowing what it wants other than something bespoke, and if such deal were even possible, it would take years to agree upon, not a year. Only there isn't a year. Whatever is agreed, it all has to be done by the end of October at the very latest to allow for ratification. Imagine the Brexiteers reaction when they find out about the ratification that is going to be done, and the price if ratification fails anywhere in the EU.

Brexiteers are mainly focussing on passports and who is making them, as is usual, rather than concentrating on the details that really matter. Or details in general to be honest.

And the Labour Party is, if anything, in worse shape that the Tories, with Keir Starmer yesterday saying the party would support Brexit in order to keep the party together, despite admitting that Brexit would make us all poorer, be a disaster and so on. So all those who voted for Corbyn in the last election in the hope he was playing some remain long game, should be facing reality in that he is keener on Brexit than the PM.

It has taken quite a series of unlikely events to bring us to this point in time, but here we are, up shit creek, outside the canoe being eaten by crocodiles. But it will be fair to all.

Apparently.