Blame again

Let us not forget why the country is where it is.

It is here, mainly because the people who pushed for Brexit, in some case for most of their political career, did not have a plan what to do once they had won the referendum. Neither had the identified any problems/risks nor how to overcome them. In simple therms, despite being told over and over again that they needed to solve how the Irish Border would work, their repeated instance that it would be fine, or that no checks would ne needed or that it was a red herring or that the German Car Industry would come riding to the rescue or that Italian Prosecco producers would or that they need us more than we need them or that this was the easiest deal in history or that the UK held all the cards.

It was all lies and bluster.

Not only that, once May was PM, she appointed Brexiteers to most positions responsible for delivering Brexit. For negotiation the sequencing, the WA and PD. For starting informal trade talks with other nations, for getting legislation through The Commons. They had the unconditional support from the vast majority of the print media, a mostly helpful visual media, there was even a working majority in the Commons. Brexit was easy.

Or should have been.

A snap general election was called, and the working majority vanished.

DD was appointed Minister for Brexit.

He capitulated over sequencing.

He, and then Raab negotiated the WA, May edition. They both then voted against it. Raab literally was the Brexit Minister and then voted against his own work.

The Joint Statement on sufficient progress was agreed by Cabinet. Twice. Only when the EU wrote it down in a legally binding document did it get rejected. NO British Prime Minister could accept this. But May (and Johnson) did. Twice.

Then reneged on in the next 18 months.

May then forced Brexit to be written down and agreed to in a long weekend at Chequers. Her Cabinet fell apart.

She then had a series of Meaningful Votes. At least one of which would have passed if the 33 ERG members and the 10 DUP who voted against it, had instead voted for it, it would have passed.

Simple as.

It is not Remainers who have stopped Brexit, it is the very Brexiteers who whinge like babies that its not fair. They should take ownership of their failings, and come up with workable solutions, its not like they haven't had enough time.

And at the very last, Johnson's slightly amended WA passed two readings in the Commons, and just needed to pass the third, and with a little work would probably have done so. But Johnson pulled it and went for an election instead.

That is very strange.

Not choosing Brexit.

In all of this, we need to look back to 2016 and the false promises made by Brexiteers, most of whom are in the Cabinet now, and see what they promised then, and ask ourselves, if they got so much wrong then, why should we trust them now?

Its not like its hard to find out what was said, one of the biggest was written on the side of a freaking bus.

It is possible that the election will not solve anything. That another hung Parliament will be returned. And once Christmas is out of the way there'll be three weeks before the next Brexit Day.

The 4th so far.

If Labour wins, or leads a coalition, they want to have a further referendum, there would have to be yet another extension at least until June to watch Corbyn's already ambitious timetable to have one in 6th months after the election. Getting the legislation right and properly debated should take at least a year.

Or it might not be scrutinised properly.

In follow up to yesterday's post: Johnson either doesn't want Brexit or doesn't want Scrutiny. Or didn't want as there is now going to be an election.