Sensible policies for mad times

I had this post all mapped out in my head, as I lay in bed with insomnia-induced-jetlag raging. But by the time I have got round to it, circumstances have moved on.

Anyway, with the EU stalling on how long to grant an extension to A50, I thought the sensible thing to do would be to grant a year's extension, with the option for the UK that they could leave once details had been agreed. If details had been agreed. SO, some sense of normality could be returned to.

But, just now, it was announced that the EU have granted one to 31st October, but the UK can leave after December 1st if a deal has been agreed.

Not as bad as it could have been, but just resets everyone's clocks by 100 days.

The next question is when to have the inevitable election. Johnson is now at his weakest having had to extend A50 and so not deliver on his repeated promises to take the UK out of the EU by the 31st October. Any Brexit vote will be split between the Conswervatives and the Brexit Party, meaning that hard core vote would be split.

But the "Remain Alliance" is also split, not agreeing on whether an election is good or not, and now trash-talking each other in the press. If Labour, the LibDems, SNP et all can't work together, then there will be a Brexit, probably Johnson's WA then no deal.

And then the country is fucked.

Most people just want Brexit done, and think that the WA is Brexit. But it isn't, of course. Brexit will drag on through most of next year, though not in Parliament so much, but the nuts and bolts of the details of a trade deal and all the rest have yet to be agreed internally in the UK let alone what the policy would be in the actual talks. Just like the start of the initial talks two and a half years ago.

And look how well that turned out!