Monday 13 May 2019

Brexit is the new normal

Theresa May’s spokesman can’t say whether talks with Labour will continue beyond this week, can’t say what Cabinet will discuss tomorrow, can’t say whether there will be indicative votes if talks fail and can’t say when the Withdrawal Agreement Bill will be brought forward.

And this is normal.

The three line whip scheduled for Thursday for reasons no one knows, but most thought was MV3, or is it MV4, has now been downgraded to a one line whip due to an administrative error.

The Conservative Party is embroiled in trying to depose the PM, but the sad truth is it won't change anything.

The WA cannot be reopened. There is no better deal to be done.

The backstop will still be there.

Parliamentary numbers will not change, a more Brexity leader will just harden opposition in Labour and Tory moderate, and no deal will not be allowed to to happen by the Commons, so the only option would be for an election, and the Conservatives are in no state to fight one as they can't agree on what platform to run. And Labour want an election so they can have a socialist Brexit, which is about the same as a Tory one, but hey.

Jobs first.

Honda today confirmed today it was going to close the Swindon factory, but would mitigate local business. Somehow. A trip to a zoo perhaps.

And the party expected to win a landslide in the EU elections, I can't say this enough, has no policies or members and no clear funding, and is only standing on a platform of democracy, which would, obviously, mean opposing a second referendum, as that is too much democracy.

Don't waste this time, Donald Tusk shouted at the UK political class as it sprinted for the spring skiing slopes.

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