A right royal solution

Yesterday, HM the Queen made another appeal, following on from her Christmas broadcast, for the country to come together and act in a civil manner to each other.

Thing is, when one side uses terms like traitors, malcontents, remoaners, enemies of the people and so on and one, we were not that inclined to meet them in the middle, or act civilly when that is what has been done to us. And anything else other than a particular person's flavour of Brexit is denounced as a betrayal. In fact various Brexiteers called May's betrayal because it was either too hard, or too soft a Brexit.

And now with any alternative course of action, all of which apart from the most damaging one, requires firm resolve and the fact that many will call the person making the choice a betrayal. I mean, where is this going to end?

With honesty one would hope, but when that has been absent from most of the debate regarding the choices we had at the referendum and what we have now, then why start now?

I heard it said that Brexiteers really didn't want to win, just want to stand on the sidelines shouting "betrayal" when they didn't win. If they didn't win, it was because the vote was rigged and so another betrayal.

In Brexit there are so many things going on, that it is impossible to comment on them all, so I choose usually one thing to write about and the rest I hope to come back to. But it doesn't mean there isn't other stuff going on. There is.

Like laws.

Yesterday, Susie Boniface, aka FleetStreetFox, wrote a piece for the Mirror stating, in simple terms that form a legislative perspective, the UK is not ready for any kind of Brexit at all. Parliament has to pass dozens of laws, Ministers have to pass hundreds of Statutory Instruments (SIs) to make UK laws and legislation compatible for not being in the EU.

Many pieces of primary legislation like trade, have been "parked" in the Lords due to lack of clarity on the Government's position, and others like Citizen's rights, the white paper hasn't even been published. These all have to go through the full process before becoming law, and need to be in place by 329th March. They won't be.

All these are needed to be passed into law even in the event of a no deal, so there is no time to waste, and yet Andrea Leadsome cleared all Brexit matters from the timetable for the Commons after the MV defeat two weeks ago.

600 SIs have to be enacted, only 57% have been done so, and because Parliament doesn't trust Ministers these have to be scrutinized, and are way behind schedule. You really cannot stress to highly what a mess we are in.

And yet the Brexiteers carry on, happy in their ignorance, until it is called out. Yesterday, James Dellingpole was on the Daily Politics talking up the WTO rules in the event of a no deal, and Andrew Neil had to explain to Dellingpole that in the event the UK dropped all tariffs and non-tariff barriers against the EU, then under the Most Favoured Nation status, it would have to do the same for all other members of the WTO too, as you treat all countries the same, unless a trade deal between the two exists.

Then I don't know, he said.

Quite.