A day of rest

Brexit is a few short weeks away. That is the economic Brexit. The UK Government has insisted there is no delay to this, even though the UK is not ready for many if not most apsects.

But still it gets closer with each passing second.

Middle of last week it seemed that there was movement on the UK side, with take of understanding the need for a mediation process. That is still true, but talk of the UK accepting the UCJ is premature, it seems. I still think we will accpe tit, in place of the UK being able to come up with an alternative.

And that is really the story of Brexit: Leavers, Remainers, The Government being very vocal about what they don't want, but not being clear or having any agreement. Going back to May attending a EU miniter's summit, and asking Merkal for a deal. What is it exactly is it you want, Theresa? Give me a deal was the robotic reply.

And here we are, 81 days to go, and only able to say what it is the UK does not want, but anable to say, or agree in Whitehall, what it is the UK wants. Its only been four and a half years, but here we still are.

Framing the blink or capitulation as some kind of victory will mean almost anything could happen and be agreed. It's what happened in October last year, selling blinking as a victory. And yet here we are again.

Interesting that some Brexiteers have started to label the WA and WAB as May's Brexit, which is a lie. May's deal had the backstop and a border across Ireland. This is Johnson's deal, his negotiated border in the Irish Sea.

And over a year since agreed, here I am, talking, writing about the same old shit.

If the UK left the SM and CU there has to be a regulatory border, the UK just has to decide where that will be.

Clearly, many don't want a border, but under WTO rules, and because the EU wants to protect the SM above all other things, as it what has driven prospetity in the EU for over two decades, and it cannot let another country, not even a former member, have the benefits of membership without the freedoms and paying for it. The UK tried to break the EU from inside, now wants to do it from the outside.

I will say this clearly, one alast time, that the EU will protect the SM and CU above all other considerations, including not having any trade with the UK. Once Johnson, Cummings and the UK realise that, then we can all move on. But cakeism lives on. And on.