Wednesday 23 January 2019

Mission: Impossible (Brexit edition)

Sherlock Holmes said that when you discount all possible explanations, all you are left with are the impossible ones.

So, with Brexit, when all legal paths are blocked, why not try some illegal ones?

Because that is where the Brexiteers are right now.

MP for Georgian England, JRM, suggested today, that Parliament itself be suspended until March 30th to allow Brexit to pass smoothly.

Yes, you read that right. Suspend what is left of democracy.

Only that really can't happen, as by law whatever path May chooses, it has to be approved by Parliament.

Lots and lots of Primary legislation needs to pass to all the Withdrawal Agreement to have effect. Time is already so tight, that if the WA were ratified tomorrow, it is highly likely there isn't enough time for all the legislation to be passed, and each day that passes makes the passing of laws needed to be even less likely.

Brexiteers lined up to support that poor millionaire, James Dyson, who yesterday announced that his company's head office was to move to Singapore. It's just two jobs they cried! But it the intellectual property that also moves out of UK, to a country that has a trade agreement with the EU.

Oh yes.

At PMQs, May and Corbyn traded insults, that those barbs could also be applied to they who said them is one of the biggest tragedies of Brexit. May says her door is open, but her mind is closed, Corbyn quipped using one of last week's Twitter memes. He doesn't have a plan, cried May, ignoring her plan B which looks like plan A just wearing a false mustache and a pair of thick rimmed glasses.

It is pathetic.

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