Non.

Yesterday, the UK sent a series of "non-papers" to the EU.

These were technical in nature, and were sent at the last minute of the 30th day after Johnson's meeting with Merkal.

Only, there were just three documents.

And this evening they were rejected as unworkable, and would not avoid a hard border in Ireland.

It seems that Johnson, for all is time spent as a journalist writing about the EU, didn't really understand it. Nor do most Brexiteers, not understanding the difference between a Sm and a FTA.

Imagining railing against something you don't understand, and driving your country over a cliff as a result?

Things may change, of course, but despite all the upbeat messages from Barlay and Johnson, there is none from the EU, who gave the UK 11 days to sort something out lest it be too late.

Too late too for any agreed deal already, as the required domestic legislation needs more sitting days in Parliament that prorogation allows. Imagine that!?

And now the weekend, when the political rumour mill goes into overtime. But time has almost already slipped through our fingers, October 31st is just six weeks away. The UK is less prepared now than it was in March, despite what UK ministers and Prime Ministers say. Hence the threatening tone from Barclay in his speech to the EU. Threatening your closest friends, trading partners is not a good look, and will make them all the more certain to legally bind any WA or whatever is agreed.

Threatening Ireland with medicine shortages because their supply chains use UK as a land bridge is not clever. What next, a potato famine?

Lessons of the past have not been learned, and these hideous errors will take decades to repair.

Still, think of them sunlit uplands in this easiest deal in history!