Brexit update

There is little more to be said regarding Brexit that I haven’t already said.

May survived her appearance before the 1922 committee, sounds of table tops being banged could be heard by the gathered press outside. But this cannot mask the fact she is leader still only because there is no one else who can take her place, no one with cross-party support. None of the ERGs leader can gather enough party support to even think about submitting a vote of no confidence, let alone one of them become a stalking horse.

Nor can the ERG hope that Parliament would pass a “no deal” Brexit, probably even a bad one either is out of the question, and the reality for the PM is the only viable option is for the whole of the UK remain in some kind of CU and SM at least for 21 months after Brexit, and probably many years after that.

Plans are afoot for a flotilla of old ferries to be charted to bring emergency supplies of food and medicine into the UK from other port other than Calais in the even that is blockaded. Although the others would probably be blockaded too. This is something that would have happened in the dark days on 1940 when it seemed that Nazi Germany would be triumphant, that this planning is needed in 21st Century UK, to what was once the 5th largest economy in the world shows the totally folly and stupidity of Brexit.

So, time is running out, there needs to be closure on the WA in the next few days, if not week at the latest, or another month will be lost before the ratification process can begin.

And one final thing, Russia has formally objected to UK rolling over it’s EU based tariff schedules, meaning Liam Fox and his department might have to negotiate 750 pus deals just to stand still, at the same time, and with far more hostile opponents than the EU.