Delay or no delay?

The UK has requested a further extension to the A50 process.

Johnson sent the letter (unsigned), and it was accepted by the EU.

In principle, the EU has accepted the request for a further extension.

But they don't know how long to grant the extension for.

It all really depends on what the UK would use a further extension for.

As it always was.

It seems that France has rejected an extension to 31st January 2020.

The feeling in the EU is to offer maybe a year's extension, so that they don't have this circus every few months, but if the WA is ratified in the UK then a new date can be agreed.

In other news, Operation Brock is being restarted over the weekend, and from Monday the southbound carriageway will be closed to prepare for a possible no deal Brexit on Friday. It is still the default position.

As it is also, if a WA is agreed, then the PD has to be turned into some kind of legal form, and if it is not completed and ratified by 31st December 2020, then the UK is left with no deal. Again. But as the UK would have legally already have left the EU, then there would be no revoke option. And in the WAB, the Government has said that Parliament could not stop that from happening, though that could be amended. Although, a future Government with a working majority could just change that law.

One last point worth noting, if Johnson's WA and the WAB are passed, then it means the end of the single market in the UK. For years we have been talking about the SM in the EU, and yet, this WA and WAB would wrench NO partially out of the UK and the political union of the UK.

That the leader of the Conservative and Union Party, Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson, is willing to do this to push the most damaging of Brext through is jaw-dropping. This is no more a conservative policy in any tradition than nationalising the railways. And yet here we are.

One final thought from me today; is it possible that Johnson and Cumming's constant missteps actually provoking Parliament to stop the most damaging Brexits? The latest being scrutiny of the WAB to last less than three days, this was always going to be rejected by the Commons, so why do it in the first place when all you are doing is setting yourself to fail?

Like the insistance of the October 31st for leaving the EU, when it was clear from a month ago that there wasn't time. Not only for domestic laws to be passed, but for the updated WA to be ratified by the EU. Was never going to happen.

It was said that if May wanted to sabotage Brexit, her actions would have been no different from what she actually did. Is it the same with Johnson?

So many unforced errors, can they really be so incompetent?

All other them, educated at great expense at some of the most famous public schools, then going onto Oxbridge, and yet so shit.