Brexit newspeak

Reading this mornings front pages, one would have though that the PM had made a speech of Churchillian proportions,rather than make one of desperation. But, there it was, This May's not for turning, and funniest from the Express; May's Finest Hour.

Why is this not true, well, making this speech over NINE months since the December agreement on "sufficient progress" which she and her Cabinet agreed to. At the time many people, myself included, pointed out the political bear trap the fallback position for the Irish Border would be.

But nothing for three months, then it was rubber stamped again, and then the EU published the effective MoM, minutes of the meetings, or in this case what it felt had been agreed, and the penny dropped.

To say that May and all of her Cabinet did not realise what they had agreed to makes them either liars or incompetent. Personally, I think they're all both.

You would have thought that the fine Brexiteers, Davis, Gove, Fox, Johnson et all, after years of pushing Brexit, would have thought of a plan, identified and suggested solutions for all problems. I mean, its what we do in projects, managing risks, and making sure the risks are mitigated.

This all the Brexiteers failed to do, hoping they could muddle through and something would turn up. Well, something did turn up; reality. And it's a bitch.

May now has four weeks to come up with a solution that is acceptable to the EU or would be forced to accept the backstop, to go back on that would be an error on an altogether different scale.