Saturday 10 April 2021

Blame it on the boogie

There has been quite a push this week to place blame for the Brexit we have.

The finger has been pointed at the very people who voted against Brexit in the first place: remainers.

We can be blamed for a couple of thengs: not making the cae for staying in the EU in 2016 and not coming up with a workable alternative to Brexit in the hung Parliament of 2017 to 2019.

The rest, including the final form had nothing to do with anyone other that Johnson and the rest of Vote Leave who have been in Government and shaped policy. Everything apart from the poltical Brexit of last January (2020) has been a policy choice, done without assessing or caring of any consequneces.

If it was the roaring success promised, there would be no scramble to lay blame on anyone else other than themselves.

The DUP and ERG both sank May's WA with backstop; that is the border across Ireland. If that was unacceptable, Johnson resigned over it, but than also said in 2018 that no UK Prime Minister could accept a border in the Irish Sea, thus splitting the Union of the UK up. But 14 months later, did exactly that, thus throwing the Union movement in NO under the wheels of the bus.

Which they then set on fire.

From hre there are no easy solutions, no backtracking, just hard work, getting together with parties in NI, Ireland and the EU to make the deal agreed, work. IN the same way, if changes need to be made, then the EU should be flexible.

That would require trust and honesty, and for leadership in those we have Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson, Liar in Chief. His political credit in NI is zero after failing to consult with Stormont over the Brexit deal, and ignoring their vote to remain.

Johnson's Government has threatened to break international law twice over the NIP, but now expects those who have been protesting to obey laws. One rue for them and another for us.

Johnson has broken laws, given the Monarch unlawful advice, threatened to break international law, allowed his chief advisor to break lockdown rules and face no consequences just a py rise, has ignored conventions and has conduscted the UK side in talks with the UK in almost total bad faith.

Now he has to become the Churchill-like figure he has always dreamed of.

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