The reality of Brexit

Every day an item of news or a tweet showing a picture from something like the only Daily Hate Mail that brings home how little not only Brexiteers, the Government but the people that voted for Brexit actually thought it through.

Seems like that the EU is going to charge UK citizens, after Brexit, €7 each time they enter the EU, in line with all other 3rd countries which is the case at the moment. Mail readers, or at least the online readers, seemed shocked to discover that Brexit meant Brexit. Who'd have thought it?

And the EUs own GPS system may be blocked not just to UK users but UK companies now, as we will no longer be part of the EU; more Brexit means Brexit, right there.

And now the Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St. james has spelt it out even clearer than last time in explaining what Brexit means; if there is no frictionless trade (a CU, SM and VAT lws) then there will bo NO Japanese companies left in UK in a decade. Is that any clearer that Brexit means Brexit?

In the two years since the referendum, UK growth has gone from the strongest in the EU to the weakest, with today, official figures showing that int he 1st quarter of 2018 it was just 0.1%. Government blames the weather, but there is a Brexit shaped elephant in the room.

The EU is currently stunned at the incompetence of Liam Fox, or should that be the disgraced former Defence Minister Liam Fox, and the fact that there is no infrastructure development at Heathrow and Dover, the two main pinch points in a no deal scenario.

At home, the Windrush scandal thunders on, with Amber Rudd showing very much she has little idea what goes on in her department. Not knowing there were targets for deportations (removals), then having to admit there was. This is the strategic direction of her department, if this isn't the very role of Secretary of State then what is? Of course if she has to resign, then so will her predecessor, Theresa May, now Prime Minister, who, and let's not forget, was very free and easy with facts, and has been shown to have lied about her role in the immigration ad trucks.

And May falling would mean the end of the Government, or a scramble to replace her. And then who? What would the Conservative Party stand for? JRM for PM? He is a backbencher given too much oxygen of publicity, and now seems to have more say in the nation's future than the Cabinet.

And still, as Amber Rudd's repeated refusal yesterday to say whether UK would be leaving the CU in an interview shows that even now, the Government is still negotiating with itself, not the EU. Johnson has said that staying in the CU would be a resignation matter; glad that something is, Boris.