Beyond belief

Brexit is failing because the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, does not believe in Brexit enough.

Apparently.

It seems the right moment to point out that if a policy is good enough, well tought through and managed, it will succeed. If a policy requires belief, then its not really a policy.

Blaming the Prime Minister, Minister or Civil Service for not believeing in Brexit enough is just denying the form of Brexit chosen was going to cause the issues to claimed to be "project fear".

The latest plan (again) is to withdraw from the ECHR to allow for migrants to be sent to Rwanda as the High Court ruled parts of the plan against the law this week. As DAG pointed out again this morning:

"UK cannot withdraw from ECHR without either breaching or re-negotiating Good Friday Agreement

It is an express condition of GFA that ECHR is enforceable in Northern Irish courts

Any call for UK withdrawal that does not address this basic, inescapable point should be discounted" Adding:

"Any re-negotiation of GFA would require agreement with Ireland (and, effectively, USA and the nationalist community) that those in Northern Ireland should be deprived of legal rights they currently hold."

Also put this in the pile with:

"Breixt cannot be a success until Biden is no longer President of the US". Thus ignoring the fact that Trump was in power from January 2017 to January 2021, and there was no stopping a trade deal being negotiated then, that and the fact that Congress has stated on repeated occasions that any act by the UK Government to harm the GFA will mean trade deal between the US and UK would ever be ratified.

Meanwhile, it emerged, that if any migrants are sent to Rwanda, the average cost for this would be £169,000, for that we could train them to be doctors and nurses and help the NHS, but the Government would rather spend public money in pointlessly wasteful manner.

On Question Time this week, the audience of mostly Conservative voters, who in attendance supported the Rwanda policy, none put their hand up, and this result produced a round of applause.

So much for delivering on the "people's priorities".

Finally, Iain Duncan Dim back a report on how to fix the regualtory border in the Irish Sea. No surprise its a rehash of an almost identical report from autumn last year and is a remix of "MaxFac", Maximum Facilitation. Already reject several times by the EU.

But do go on. And on.