The beginning of the end of Brexit?

First of all, it's important to state, that the decisions of a previous Parliament cannot stop a future Parliament from acting. Unless that act would be unconstitutional.

So that we can say that the result of the 2016 advisary refenendum on whether to remean or leave the EU was satisfied by the 2019 election in which Boris Johnson's Brext deal was confirmed in a landslide.

The problem is that many people, Johnson inculdued one suspects, saw Brexit as an event, when in reality it was always a process.

Leaving the EU was always just an event in the process.

As time went on, talks between the UK and EU take place to discuss any changes in relationship, standards, and so on. As well as regular negotations as per the exit agreement.

While the UK under Johnson ummed and ahred about standards and regulation, the EU carried on, so even by inactivity on the UK there was a drife between the two parties in terms of regulation and standards. That gap had to be closed, otherwise there would be more nd more cmplaince checks at borders. As well as the UK wanting to exercise its sovereinty, so should the EU, no matter how petty Brexiteers make that sound.

This week a framework agreement on food standards was accepted, though yet to be approved by either side, meaning that many compliance checks at the border would be swept away, and allow UK producers, large and small, to have unfettered access to the EU again.

Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister now, said that this could add as much as 0.4% onto the UK's annual GDP, and it was his top to increase growth.

Such an agreement does not negate or ignore the referendum, nor is anyone being betrayed. Time has shown how bad the Brexit deal was, a deal that Johnson, the Conservative Party, and Farage and his then party approved of.

The electorate has moved on, and there is now about a 60/40 split on those who want the UK to rejoin. That in itself is not enough, it needs a political cross-party agreement that this is the right thing to do, and an election won by a party proposing this.

That time is a long way away, just asking to rejoin now without an election of such corss-party agreement would fail, as the EU would have to be sure we didn't have our fingers crossed, and a change in Government would bring Brexit 2.0.

A small step in the right direction, then. One that brought much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the usual suspects.