Not my fault, Guv

One thing that has been a recurring theme through all of what we call Brexit, has been when push comes to shove, and actual leadership of a plan is needed, Brexiteers will resign to snipe from the sidelines, blaming any one, everyone, other than themselves for a lack of planning.

In the last week, DD, Boris as well as Mr Thirsty (Farage) have done so. In DD's case, as Minister for Brexit, it shows how little he learned in those two years as chief "negotiator", especially in 2018 when he spent less than 4 hours in total in talking to Barnier. His latest plan is to start negotiations from the beginning. At least I think that was the plan, its in the Sunday Express, and I won't read that, even for Brexit research.

Boris called the Irish/NI border a "red herring", when it is the most basic of issues, the UK's only land border with the EU, and how that works and whether it does work or not, is central to the GFA, doubly so when there has been a spike in violence in NI this past month.

The new DD, Dominic Raab said today, that in case the EU doesn't give UK a trade deal, the UK should refuse to pay the "divorce" settlement of £39 billion, thus ignoring the fact that is is what we owe as a result of our current commitments, and not some invoice for getting what we want.

The bill, along with the NI backstop agreement was reached in December and agreed by the Government then and in March. Not our fault that the PM and the Brexiteers failed to understand what they had agreed to. Breaking this commitment, at a time when we need to have the EU on our side as we need to negotiate dozens of trade deals, show that as a country, our word cannot be counted up, having broken all this undertakings, and will further ensure that anything now agreed will be quickly written into legal texts impossible to interpret any other way.

This Government really has learned nothing in two years, and still hopes that it can pick apart the four freedoms of the EU, despite the EU and EU industrial leader stating this is far more important to trade than a deal with the UK.

It should come as no surprise if the EU now terminates all talks until UK comes to its senses and has a united front and acceptance as to the situation its own stupidity has put itself in. Such a crisis, either economic or political is the only thing that will wreak real change and maybe a coalition of the sensible can emerge in Westminster to explain to the country the shit creek and paddleless situation we find ourselves in.

JRM was pushed to say, as a man of principle, that if Brexit brough chaos next year, he should resign. He failed to say that, but added it could take 50 years for the real Brexit Bonus to become apparent.

A message to Mr JRM, that in 50 years, the UK will have long since rejoined the EU, on worse terms than it is now, but will be back. So meaning this is all pointless and eye-wateringly expensive.