Aftermath

Yesterday evening, the PM went to the EU’s minister’s gathering to try to prise more concessions from them.

It was always going to be a desperate ploy. I think it is fair to say, that May has used the last drops of patience from the EU and now they are just wanting resolution one way or another.

Instead of helping, they firmed up language, taking out some UK helpful phrases.

It was a busted flush, but then it was always going to be.

Video emerged of the meeting with many leaders looking stern-faced as May went round asking for help. As the president of Luxemburg said, it is the UK leaving the EU, you find the solutions.

The press reported that the EU was holding the UK to ransom; not the UK is doing that to itself.

Any legal clarification can only be part of the WA itself, as that is the legal document. And the EU have said many times they are not going to revisit it.

I need not remind you that DD as Minister for Brexit, under instruction from the PM, negotiated the December agreement 12 months ago, in which was the backstop.

DD negotiated it. May approved it. Cabinet approved it. Parliament approved it. All twice.

Then when the legal text was released by the EU they all realised what they had signed up to. This is why we have experts, to advise politicians about what such texts mean. I learnt from Twitter what the agreement meant, and was not surprised when the text was published four months later.

The border on Ireland is the only land border between the EU and EU post Brexit, how that works, or not, is critical. That none of the Brexiteers thought about Ireland in “planning” Brexit, or since the referendum says much about how crap they are politicians and managers.

One more time, I remind you that the WA and framework political agreement should have been done and dusted by October to allow for ratification. Every days that goes by puts any ratification by the EU27 in grave danger. And some Brexiteers want to start from scratch, I’m talking about you, DD, without realising that that is impossible.

The WA is what happens when Brexit meets reality. Reality wins. Or you have no WA.

No WA, no TA no FTA.