Brexit stuff

Yesterday, an extraordinary exchange between the Electoral Commission and the Metropolitan Police took place, with the Met accusing the EC of not supplying them with documents, so that is why the criminal investigation into wrongdoing during the referendum had stalled.

That the document in question had been supplied by a lawyer, and was available for review in the House of Commons, via Hansard, is another matter.

The Electoral Commission concluded that electoral law was broken by the Vote Leave campaign, an passed its findings to the Met. We have been waiting over a year, and there is no forward action.

Its all a bit suspicious, really.

That this was hardly noticed by the BBC or the press says everything about the level of scrutiny politics has at the moment.

Meanwhile, the two potential leaders have been trying to deflect attention from Brexit to other policy areas; Hunt talking about fox hunting. And that a vote on its legalization might happen if he became PM. And Johnson railing against the "sugar tax" and the creep of the "nanny State". That he might have links to the self same companies that have seen sales fall as a result of the tax and attendant publicity is, I'm sure, purely coincidental.

Finally the EU restated it wasn't going to throw Ireland under the (Brexit) bus, and that the WA is still closed.

One final, final point: for the possibility of a no deal Brexit to be ruled out, a positive decision on an alternative course of action needs to be made. There is two straight choices:

1. Leave the EU with a negotiated WA. There is one in place already.

2. Revoke A50. Or cancel Brexit.

The third choice is to request a further extension, but there has to be a reason for that, an election or second referendum. But that would lead back to the same choices mentioned above.