A proper Brexit

So, after nearly three years commentary on Brexit, how could May and UK have done it better?

Well, the first mistake was to send the A50 notification before the UK was ready.

What should have happened first, is what the UK is doing last. The PM having cross-party talks, to get an agreement of the final position and how to got there, rather than the almost total secrecy she has been engaged in.

This would have enabled May to have given her negotiating team terms of reference, and a mandate showing that whatever was agreed would have the support of Parliament. Clearly, the opposite was done, so when May came back to the House, she was defeated, in a record number of votes.

If agreeing on a negotiation position and plan took 5 years to achieve, much better to take that time rather than to do it against the clock ticking down two years. Easy to say with time nearly up, but anyone with more than the 5 branincells the Cabinet currently possesses could have seen the EU would use time as leverage.

Then getting a total idiot to be Brexit Minister for two years was, well, not really a mistake, a miss-step so bad, it must have been deliberate. Same with the Foreign Secretary and Trade Minister. All of them total buffoons or idiots, promoted way above their IQ and their mouths writing cheques that their ability could not cash.

All so easily avoidable.

Admitting the pain of what any form of Brexit would be, and that in any negotiations, compromise always features. In stating that the UK held all the cards and there would be no downsides raised expectations to the point where anything less than total capitulation from the EU was going to be a disappointment.

So, it sets the country, and those who voted leave for a major letdown when what was negotiated and passed by the Cabinet and DUP was less than what was promised. But it was passed, so talks carried on.

May in no way carried Parliament or or party with her, she is not a natural leader, and even if she were right, I don't think many would follow her. Thatcher, for all her faults, had policy and carried them out even when it was doing the country and her party harm, convinced that she was right. We won't see a PM like that again, as they all to care more about the Editorial in the Mail than doing what is right for the country.

But instead she has run away from confronting the situation her piss poor leadership has brought, delaying votes and the confrontation with the headbangers in the ERG until it is too late to do anything about it. In the end, there is a compomise to be done with Labour, bypassing the ERG, but that would spit her party, and so the charade continues.

Labour would do little better, with Corbyn in charge, he is pushing for Brexit, and facilitating it Even the party's union backers know its wrong, but urge hard Brexit on anyway. It is a fucking mess.

A fucking mess when Tony Blair and Nicola Sturgeon are the two main politicians who speak common sense.

We are here becasue we deserve to be. Areas that voted most heavily for Brexit will be the hardest hit, and they deserve it too, for believing fairy stories. I know people who work at Honda in Swindon, and still they delude themselves that it is all bluster. They will probably be saying that when the factory has closed, production moved to eastern Europe and they are signing on, refusing to thake their share of the blame.

We voted for this shower of shit, and the people who carried out, and they will be the same cretins who will negotiate the first trade deals which will decide whether the country slides into recession or depression,

Cheerful thought, eh?

The only way to do Brexit would have been by treaty, as we joined. Bit by bit, and taking time. It would have taken a decade, but would have been controlled.