Brexit through the looking glass, through the wardrobe and into Narnia.

The PM is near to agreeing a deal with the DUP and ERG on the Irish backstop which make it acceptable to those parties. THis will be rejected by the EU and by Ireland especially. In short, the Government is in discussions over a deal that doesn't actually exist. Maybe the point is that at the end, when the country is wracked by protests and riots that May will try to blame the EU saying they reject this.

Thing is, a backstop is there for when all else fails, and if nothing else, Brexit is nothing but a long line of failure by May and the Brexiteers. And in particular, where Fax Fac or the much fabled technological solutions in anyway really viable, the arguments about the backstop would be unnecessary, as the solution would do away with the backstop, so the hard fighting by the Brexiteers and the DUP is tacit acceptance that both the alternatives are non-starters or so long from being developed.

Also, if the UK had acted in good faith through the A50 process, the EU might have accepted a time limit, but May's actions, and those by DD and others where having agreed something in negotiations then stating the press something different, meant that everything that is agreed has to be put into legal text lest UK try to wriggle out of it.

The truth of the matter is the UK Government under May and lead by DD negotiated and agreed the WA, and did so over 13 months ago, to be in this position now, having agreed to something they knew would never get through Parliament is just dreadful leadership by May. And now she is in the position trying to reopen the WA, that the EU says it won't do, so that the DUP and ERG get onside, but Parliament still won't back.

It is madness.

The MOD has spent approx £26 million on stockpiling stores at bases around the world, including the Falklands and Cyprus as well as here in the UK, in the event of no deal. A now deal we can avoid by revoking A50. The M20 and M26 are to be turned into Lorry parks, and to take back control, Chris Greyling (the minister for chaos) is suggesting to drop all tariffs and non-tariff barriers on goods from the EU, which under the most favoured nation clause in WTO rules means that would have to be extended to all countries. So no control.

Meanwhile, the Sunday Express confidentially proclaims that the EU will blink first. I mean, when will these idiots stop spouting such squit?