Ignoring reality

On Saturday the Express, then on Sunday, the Express (again), the Mail and Torygraph declares that all will be fine and indeed the UK will thrive out of the EU. No explanations on how, I suspect, just more flag waving. Flags streaked with shit.

Despite the UK Government's own analysis that no deal would be a disaster for most areas of the economy and country, the UK's chief Brexit negotiator says we should be prepared to walk away. IN fact, much won't change as I described in a post on Friday, much of what the EU wants is enshrined in the WA and so international law. Breaking that would be a significant step for the UK, and mark us out at untrustworthy.

But that matters little as Brexit hasn't really been about Brexit. It has been an internal battle within the Conservative Party. It is now rabidly UKIP, and it has now manoeuvred the party to a position where all choices can be described, and will be, as betrayal of Brexit. Even if there is a no deal on future trade, it will be a betrayal as it would have been brought about not by their lack of planning, but by Remainers, the EU, the BBC, anyone but them.

Giving into the ERG and other headbangers only results in them being satisfied for so long, then demanding harder and harder Brexit, until they now demand the very deal the PM was elected as Party leader and won an election on, is a betrayal and should be renegotiated or abandoned.

The WA and PD contains what the EU was mainly looking for, it has prepared for Brexit and can live with the consequences of any form, including no deal. Meanwhile the UK has barely started essential preparations that its actions from four years ago meant were needed, but May and Johnson denied would be needed.

But the press would rather you got upset at Rule Britannia or the fact that satire shows on the BBC have ore jokes about Johnson, Brexit and Trump, well, Have I Got News For You, that's what satire is for, those it is lost on the Torygraph.

The Express claims the EU will be starved of cash from London money markets, which is partly true, but the London banks and funds will lose EU passporting rights, which is why many of them have opened offices on the Continent to allow them to continue trading.

The Mail's headline, "This time we won't blink" suggests that the UK has blinked in the past. Something they have not before admitted. The EU will not blink, and the point of it being too late has probably already passed as six months, at least, for ratification is needed, especially with a hard deadline of New Year's Eve, but time and time again we see the UK making the same mistakes, or maybe thy don't, either they believe this guff, or it is for domestic consumption.

Reality is coming.

It will be a long, cold, hard winter.

Prepare well.