Johnson speaks

No, not that Johnson, but is brother, Jo.

Jo Johnson resigned from the Government last night where he was serving as a junior transport minister, saying that he could go longer go on with the PM's plans and backed a call for a second referendum.

Although I am all for MPs with consciences and all that, in the case of Jo Johnson, the man who literally wrote the Tory's 2015 election manifesto in which laid out the "plans" for a referendum, and has been a Minister through this summer and autumn when no one can claim that Brexit has been going swimmingly well, what was it that tipped the balance?

And what will he and Boris have to talk about over Christmas dinner?

I have laid out many time why a second referendum, the so-called "people's vote" isn't really the answer, mainly because its just that which has gotten us into this situation. \not that alone, but Cameron allowing it to take place to head off the UKIPers of this world, only for his party to become so close to UKIP that the latter has all but vanished, but in allowing the referendum, not allowing the Civil Service of Ministries to prepare for what a leave vote would mean, or prepare anything for a leave vote, or how much leave would cost.

Bear in mind that both Cameron and Corbyn said they would trigger A50 after the referendum in the event of a leave vote; Cameron did resign instead of doing that, but left May to pick up the pieces. Churchill would have struggled, but May, who has Home Secretary launched the "hostile environment" which saw an untold number of people from the "Windrush" generations, now UK citizens, had them deported, in some case to a country they had never visited, let alone lived.

May then appointed DD, Johnson, Fox and even Gove into positions of power and/or positions where these leading Brexiteers had direct control over the direction and form Brexit would take. Which is why we are here, even the Brexiteers couldn't agree among themselves, but apparently the people knew what they were voting for.

Brexit has been a disaster, almost as big a disaster as it was possible to be. And despite so called "remoaning" warning of the pitfalls, the country under the leadership under the Government of Fools has fell into almost every single one, given in over a number of points and policies, tried to roll back others thus burning the last traces of goodwill from the EU.

The EU is a rules based organisation, which has negotiated trade deals for itself, and so its members for more than 45 years. It knows the trade red lines of member states, including UK's. Thinking that Davis and Fox could outmanoeuvre the EU was foolish to the point of international embarrassment. From the very start, Davis conceded to the EU's timetable for the WA, meaning the three issues of rights, money and the Irish border had to be settled before anything else.

Brexiteers when asked what would happen in a no deal seem to think some other kind of side deal could be struck with the EU, thus not really understanding what a no deal actually means. Quite why when after two years of talks had failed, why they would just say OK to let our planes continue flying, or Tesco have asparagus out of season, is something they have not even considered.

The reckoning is coming, its just a case of when.