Brexit update

Not many of my friends on Facebook are Brexiteers, but occasionally those that are, share a post which shows what the Brexiteer camp are doing.

Yesterday, in quick succession, two posts popped up demanding that the Speaker be sacked for not being impartial.

Now, clearly, the Speaker has sides with the remain side, in that the Government has treated Parliament with contempt, literally in one case, so he is willing to give Leave leeway. Or, let me put it this way, where convention might usually have sides with the government, he has been flexible to allow the flexbility to go to the other side.

Let's be clear, this is not because the Speaker is a remainer, but his duty is to Parliament first and foremost, and he takes that responsibility very seriously. He was originally elected as a Conservative MP, but is neutral, and convention says that in General Elections, his seat is not opposed.

The PM's adviser, Cummings, let it be known yesterday, that if an MP opposes the Government in VoNC, then they will be deselected, even if their local association still backs them. This would have the effect of reducing the PM's parliamentary majority from its current three, but that will only lead to an election.

In today's papers, it is reported that Mr Barnier has rejected calls for the backstop to be amended or removed. Tis is not his decision, this is what his mandate from the EU Commission tells him. Blaming one person on the EU side, without saying that he is just doing the job he was employed to do with the mandate given is not being honest, but then that is par for the course from Brexit.

Both the Mail and the Times today carried lead stories of Number 10 threatening MPs thinking of voting against the Government of a Corbyn Government "chaos", like the May and Johnson ones are bastions of strength and stability, and/or a General Election.

Yesterday, it emerged that the second of the Chancellor's advisors was sacked by Cummings during the week, and escorted by the police from Whitehall, after it was alleged she had had contact with former Treasury colleagues. The Chancellor found out about this from the BBC. This is a theocracy, based on Brexit. If you do not believe, believe enough, or believe in anything else other than no deal, you are out.

A reign of fear.

But also a war on reality.

Johnson's policy is one to make a strong bluff that the UK will walk away with no deal if he doesn't get what he wants. He has said this is numerous interviews that this is a bluff. The EU and European Leaders can read our newspapers and watch our TV stations. They know this is a bluff. A bluff in that the UK is nowhere near ready for no deal, and won't be in the eight weeks before the 31st October.

Bluffing when you tell the other side you're bluffing cannot work. Won't work.