Brexit stuff.

It was pointed out yesterday that all discussions/negotiations with the EU have to be concluded by the end of September, as you know, to allow for ratification; if there is anything to ratify. Any later then there is the real risk that the ratification will not be complete, and as we know, unless something else happens, ready or not, the UK leave the EU on 29th March.

That both the UK government and the EU are both on recess through most of July and into August, this leaves six weeks of actual time in which to conclude(!), ha, the final agreement.

And remember, nothing is agreed until it is ALL agreed, therefore, there is a real risk, again, that the UK will leave with no deal.

Unless some arcane Parliamentary procedure can be found to put the meanful vote back on the agenda. Stranger things have happened.

But then since Tuesday, the Withdrawal Bill has come into force allowing the state to remove citizen's rights without recourse or review. Nothing as yet, but well worth watching what will be sacrificed on the bonfire of standards.

Time really is running out, especially when you realise that it is over six months since the December agreement was reached, and since then there has been no progress at all. The June EU summit is drawing to a close, and with nothing on the NI/Irish border to review from the UK side, let alone agree or disagree on.

The Dutch PM said today that the 1st 2nd and 3rd priority in Brexit is that border.

But not just that border, Spain has inserted a clause regarding Gibraltar into the EU's position paper. This should not come as a surprise as we said so, and even worse is that Spain, like each of the EU27 hase a veto over any "deal".

On Monday a "behind the scenes" documentary airs on C4 of life in the US Embassy in London, and a leak from the first episode speaks of the UK Government lying to the people, planes not being able to fly. Anywhere. And just how disterous to the economy Brexit will be, and that the UK Government is just ignoring the evidence like its not there.

Today, JRM visited to NI/Irish border and said if the UK keeps its side open, then it is up to the EU to keep their side open, thus ignoring any of those inconvenient facts and WTO rules that get in the way. It really is laughable were the stakes not so high.

Anyway, Brexit will probably go quiet for the next month, just for the last two months of real panic sets in.