Friday Brexit news

One thing that has been forgotten in the fog of Brexit that in the run up to the referendum, a Labour MP who did lots of work for immigrants and immigration charities was shot and stabbed to death by a white man shouting “Britain First” as he shot her in the face. Jo Cox was killed.

Campaigning was suspended, or should have been, but it has been proven that both Leave campaigns carried on pumping out fake news advertising on social media with data supplied by Cambridge Analytica.

Now, can you imagine if an immigrant has shot and killed a Conservative MP in the run up to the referendum, how the rhetoric would have been ramped up. Her name is hardly mentioned in the UK now, but yesterday, in Belgium a square in Brussels was renamed after her.

Someone cares, just not her home country.

This morning the former Foreign Secretary and part time Mayor of London, Boris de Piffel Johnson outlined his plans for an alternative Brexit in opposition to May’s Chequers plan. But as you would expect, it was full of cake, contradicted itself and largely ignored the Irish Border issue still claiming it could be solved by technology. This and other so called solutions ignores the EU’s red lines on the separation of the four freedoms, in fact it has more cake than May had in her plan, as Johnson suggested cherry picking freedom of movement for good and services. Freedom of movement for services has not been covered in any trade deal across the world.

Let’s be honest, Conservatives are arguing about two deals that neither of which the EU would accept. And that is the level of discourse that we have in our country, and bot plans are jammed full of cakeism and cherry picking.

And yesterday, Corbynites trended a hashtag on Twitter to boycott the Guardian newspaper as the paper had been critical of their dear leader. And this is the state of the left in the UK too.

Frankly, two weeks in the US not thinking about this madness is looking darn attractive.