Thursday 31 January 2019

More Brexit madness

If I could, I would find something new to write about Brexit. But each day is some kind of Kafkaesque hell, or maybe its Prometheus instead of having his liver pecked out, he has to listen to the same arguments for avoiding a hard border in Ireland.

Round and round we go, regurgitating arguments that were debunked months if not years ago.

There is no magic that can be waved to make the backstop go away, if there were solutions, technological or otherwise, they would have been found by now.

Instead, all that the UK and the PM has show is a huge dose of bad faith to the EU and all other traders.

And even if there was a way, the UK still has to decide what relationship it wants with the EU, this does not affect that, it means that the arguments will only get worse and more heated.

Brexiteers and their cheerleaders have shown themselves to be unable to compromise, so why should anyone else? Negotiations mean compromise. And anyway, the UK wade backstop was put in at the UK’s request to ensure there was no hard border in the Irish sea, so the alternative is a NI only solution that puts that back! Is that what they want? I seriously doubt that.

And with so much legislation to pass before the 29th March, it came as a surprise this morning to find that the Government had not scheduled one minute of Brexit business in the Commons for next week!

Mind you, Andrea Leadsome is in charge of that, so, maybe not so surprising its all messed up.

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