Friday 1 June 2018

It could easily be too late


OK, Brexit is the wrong thing to do, but people voted for it. Just like a Theresa May government is the wrong thing to do, but people voted for it. Ish. And then they shuffled a few things and the odd billion and it happened. But democracy demands that we keep pushing our ideas, and the interests of our children.

Brexit is the wrong thing, done badly.

The sight of Laim Fox, pretending the world will take notice of him when Cecilia Malmstrom has been negotiating with the Trump people since the beginning of March when he announced this trade war thing, is pitiful.

He flew to Washington to bleat.
He bleated.
He flew back.

Malstrom put together her contingency plans, which might now come into play, and Fox needs to look at what he would do, sitting in the UK's newly polished WTO seat and being ignored by somebody four levels down from Trump just as he is now (except when he's at one of their fundraisers, when it's always good to have a bit of foreign - but not too foreign - colour).

David Davis chose today (let's humour him: it was planned, he didn't just wake up with the idea) to announce his genius "We'll make Northern Ireland part of the EU as well as part of the UK, and as an added bonus we'll throw in a ten mile border area where just about anything goes" idea.

Literally nobody applauded.

We're paying hundreds of British civil servants to talk to hundreds of EU civil servants (who we're also paying) about the least ruinous way possible to extricate ourselves from this structure which is currently engaged in reacting to the man-child over the water's attack on some of our industries and some of our futures.

Could somebody in Westminster please engage a brain cell or two?

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