Once again, for those at the back

The Government has signed a new agreement with the EU on trade.

Needless to say, The Mail, Express and Torygraph are all screaming "Brexit betrayal", and lamenting losing those "Brexit benefits", though no one has every really set out what those benefits are.

As for betrayal, the question, in the referendum, put to the electorate, was :

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union? The responses were:

1) Remain a member of the European Union

2) Leave the European Union"

No other details.

You might remember JRM saying as a member, the UK was a vassal state having to follow decisions by the EU and having no say, but that cut through, but last week a Tory shadow minister said that as part of this deal, the UK would have to follow EU rules and compliance without a say.

Both can't be right, and clearly JRM was wrong. But if we were going to have the same standards anyway as our largest export market, does it matter?

The UK fully left the EU at midnight on the 31st January 2020, and has yet, not rejoined.

There is no betrayal.

Of course, Brexiteers might FEEl that Brexit means something else, but the referendum result was carried out and the UK left the EU.

For four and a bit years, the Johnson, Truss and Sunak Governments tried to make sense of the result and didn't, literally Johnson but Brexiteers in charge of Brexit in 2020, and with the huge majority his Government had, could have shaped Brexit in whatever form they wanted.

But very little happened.

Other than COVID, but Parliament still worked, and Brexit could have been harder or softer.

The Labour Government was elected partly on a ticket to reset the relationship with the EU, which it has done, and in UK politics, General Election trump referendums, quite rightly.

So, for those not paying attention at the back: no betrayal, the UK is still not a member of the EU.