Nothing changed

So, yesterday, May made her first comments in public for 21 days, first at PMQs then later at a select committee where she could not give a straight answer.

Later she sacked her Defence Secretary for claiming he was the source of a leak at a recent security council meeting regarding the Chinese Telecoms company, Huawei, and their involvement (against the wishes of our security partners) in the UK's new 5G network.

Thing is, one man's leak is another's unattributed media briefing, while another is arrested under section 2 of the Terrorism Act.

Oh well.

That's 42 ministers May has lost since the election two years ago.

Today was the local council elections. I voted, not for either of the main parties, but for the Greens. As the other candidates were independents who did not put anything through our door, so no idea on what platform, if any, they were standing.

Depending on how the two main parties did, might determine how the next three weeks go.

Or not.

It seems inevitable that EU elections will happen, to be in compliance with EU law, not for UK citizens but for EU citizens able to exercise their right to vote.

All the time the A50 period is being extended, the transition period is shrinking. So that if the A50 is extended to October 31st, then the UK and EU will have just 14 months to negotiate a trade deal, and the last six months given to ratification. So, eight months.

In just eight months, all other aspects of trade, travel, freight, medicine, aviation, rights, and so on will have to be sorted.

If so much wasn't riding on all of this, it would be quite funny.