Sunday 17 March 2019

Sunday Brexit

I guess you are waiting to hear what pears of wisdom I have for you today: I have nothing.

Chess pieces are being moved ready for the 3rd MV this week, and maybe Brexiteers, the ERG and/or the DUP will vote for it. Maybe they won't. Maybe May will win the day, maybe she won't.

Either way, it will only lead to more chaos, as even if the WA is passed, then the UK does not have enough time to get legislation through before the leaving date.

Even if that was sorted, then there is the bigger problem that the UK is entering another negotiation, this time on trade, with the EU, not knowing what we want at the end of it. Same as the WA, there are random red lines, none of which make little sense, so we will be left with a mess of a trade deal that country will be saddled with for decades.

I cannot stress how bad the trade negotiations are going to go, the furore relationship of with the EU, if the Government and Parliament can't agree what it wants at the end of it. Either close to the EU or not.

Brexiteers want the freedom to be, er, dick, whilst the rest, business included, want a way to still trade with our European neighbours.

If the predictions are right about a hard or no deal Brexit, there will be little left of manufacturing to be able to trade with the rest of the world, and as May's WA shafts our service industries, meaning both parts of our economy is shafted.

This is not just economically illiterate, it is economic madness. Can you imagine what the Conservative Party's legacy will be after all this?

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