Tuesday Brexit news

Also, the December agreement included a fallback position, in effect keeping NI in the SM and CU to ensure there is no hard border on the island of Ireland. This was agreed by DD in December, and supported by Parliament in December and again in March. It reflects badly that it wasn’t until the EU published their view on what was agreed that there were problems. Thing about always fudging decisions, is that at some point the fudge has to become a firm agreement with a legally binding text. That May or DD didn’t understand what they agreed to or published their own version of the agreement is not the EU’s fault.

So, for the PM’s Chequer’s deal to come into play, the above all must be closed and agreed. Failure on one of these, or the fear on the EU’s part that the UK might not honour that would mean no WA. And no WA means no TA either.

The Chequers white paper was more cakeism, picking and choosing from the four freedoms, which was something the EU nor major EU industries would accept, no matter how many times Brexiteers said they would. The idea of cherry picking was rejected last year, and dressing it up in as many different clothes as May has will not ever change that position.

So, Johnson and May arguing over whether the Chequers paper is crap or the only deal in town is meaningless, as the EU has already rejected it in many forms before, and Barnier has said he was strongly opposed to it. What the paper should have been is the opening gambit in negotiations, which should have been published 18 months before, not the final offer.

That this point is not being talked about by the BBC or most of the media means that the Brexiteers are being let off being held responsible for their piss poor planning, and can just waffle on and on about how its all the EU’s fault.

Until there is honesty in the media and from the Politians, UK will be plunged into a no deal Brexit by default, as it’s the one course that requires no action by anyone. UK will have decades to reflect on this, and decades of slower growth, higher unemployment, lower tax revenues to ponder too, and it could and still be avoided.