Reality, my old friend

As we have seen in the past, like December 2017 and March 2019, when Brexit and reality mix, there is chaos.

And so as we near the Brexit endgame, possibly, Brexit and reality are getting close again.

The Brexit says that it is Johnson's plan to renegotiate the WA, take out the backstop, then get this through Parliament. In less than three weeks when Parliament is due to sit. Or there will be no deal Brexit.

Reality says, the EU have been constant, unwavering and unanimous in saying the WA will not be reopened and the backstop is going nowhere.

The upshot is, therefore, that as the WA will not be reopened and certainly the backstop is going nowhere, then Johnson will drive the UK off a cliff.

So, when the now-resigned leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, says she looked Johnson in the eye and believed he wants to agree a WA and believed him. This belief is based not on reality, the false Brexit narrative that only reaches the Straits of Dover, where beyond our European friends look on as if, as a country, we have lost our minds.

I watched half an hour of BBC News channel yesterday, and all reports mentioned the renegotiation of the WA, removal of the backstop, all without mentioning that the EU have said "no" to all this for the last three years.

If the BBC cannot be honest with its viewers, as the state broadcaster, to actually inform the nation of the reality of the Brexit situation and how boundless optomism won't change the EU's vews.

That and the reality of the effects of no deal, with food, fuel, energy, medicine shortages. In very real terms, people will die as a result of no deal Brexit, we should ask the Prime Minister how meany deaths is acceptable to deliver such a disastrous no deal Brexit. Is it one, ten, a hundred, a thousand?

Would he consider such deaths a collateral damage in his ideological war on reality?