Your Christmas Brexit

There are 96 and a half days until the UK leaves the EU, and Parliament has just started a 17 day break, meaning there will be about 80 days left before we leave.

Just a reminder that there is a WA to ratify or come up with an alternative plan. Despite what May says, the EU have repeatedly stated that the WA is not up to renogitation. There are no talks taking place in Brussels or any other EU capital. Whole the UK fiddles, the EU has the breakdown of democracy in Hungary, the undermining of law in Poland, Brexit is not top of its list of worries. As far as the EU is concerned, it has negotiated a WA and TA, and that is that, it either happens, or not. I think the EU will have no choice but to start the ratification process, but might threaten to withdraw the offer in order to focus minds in Westminster.

Corbyn yesterday, announced that if there were a snap election and Labour would win, Brexit would still happen. Therefore at a stroke strengthening May's position and further making the case for a split in Labour. Corbyn, like Brexit, is a matter of faith. No amount of evidence otherwise will convince believer that either is anything less than perfect. Corbyn has at every turn, either by design or accident, allowed Brexit to pass to the next stage, or embolden May and the Brexiteers. That the far left and far right are united in their love all things hard Brexit is stunning.

Corbyn's biggest beef with the EU is, apparently, about state aid. Thing is, the WTO rules also have strong rules regarding state support. In fact when the Home Office put out the tender for the new non-EU blue passports and a French company won, this was not down to EU rules, but to WTO public procurement rules. But never let the facts get in the way of a good Brexit, eh?

And citisising Corbyn on Twitter brings the wrath of the hard left in the guise of Momentum, the party within a party that is the successor to Militant. Didn't work in the 80s, won't work now. Playing politics with people's lives will result in disaster, as with Militant on Merseyside in the 80s, so with Momentum with Brexit. Only it will be nationwide.

But for now, both parties are pro-Brexit, and until things get really crap, it won't change. Whether circumstances push Labour towards a new referendum of full blown leave remains (ha) to be seen, but I know many old Labour voters like myself, who has seen the party leadership ignore the membership and conference support for remain or any other plan.

In the end, Corbyn's belief that he can renegotiate with the EI the WA shows that is is living in dreamland, just as much as May.

And there was the "Leader of the House", Andrea Leadsome, who has been quoted in the Sunday Torygraph that the House cannot stop no deal Brexit. It is always astonishing when a politician shows he or she fails to understand a subject, but failing to understand to constitutional status of Parliament and Government is damning. Of course we should not be surprised as we have the most useless tranche of politicians I have known in my lifetime, most promoted above their grade and woefully out of their depth, and can only survive by lying and then the media not calling them out for it.

I wish you a Merry Christ in Brexitlalaland, enjoy it now, because in the first two weeks of the year, serious issues and crisis are heading our way.