Making your mind up

A short post to remind all those, both of you, who read my words on Brexit, that June is a most important month, in that at the end the EU are having a conference to discuss where Brexit is and what is left, if anything, to do.

What there were hoping for was the UK's position paper on Brexit, but May has since said this would not be out until after that meeting, meaning there is not another meeting of the EU27 planned until the start of the ratification (if any) process is due to begin.

As ever, May is still negotiating with her own ministers and the editors of several right wing papers; the Torygraph, the Express and the Hate Mail.

Next week sees two days of debates and votes in the HoC on the HoL amendments. These will be fraught, but not as fraught as it could be as it seems Labour will be whipping its MPs to abstain. So much for the long game! Although the Labour Shadow Minister for Brexit, Keir Starmer says one thing and it seems like a major policy shift, and then one sentence by Corbyn blows that out of the water when he talks about Labour making a success of Brexit, jobs for Brexit and nothing about their six tests.

The NI/Irish Border needs settling before the end of the month, and May's decision to try to kick that in the long grass has been rubbished by the EU.

So, it seems no actual progress since December, six months, or one QUARTER, of Brexit, wasted.

Well done, UK.