I must declare one interest, I have materially benefitted from the Brexit vote. Nonetheless, I think whatever side of the /Brexit fence people may fall, the shenanighans of the last week or so can only be described as farcical.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-a3711226.html
I am going to argue that Brexit is undeliverable under this administration and that is is best if the UK revoke Article 50 and forget Brexit negotiations until it :
- Has a clue what it's goals are
- Has the capacity to deliver those goals
- Whatever it does is in the interests of the country , not those of a political party
- Explains to Parliament the impact of its propsals in full
- Explains to the British people, properly, in general terms, the benefits or detriment arising from it's policies.
I also suggest for the sake of common sense that a new Brexit proposal be put to a referendum.
The current process looks screwed. The referendum called only for the UK to stay or leave the EU. It is perfectly possiblde to be outside the EU and stay in the single market (Norway) and /or the customs union (Turkey),
Yet by calling article 50, commiting the UK to a process it has barely understood , let alone costed or impacted, and by ruling out the single market and customs union, the UK has been left exposed because the Irish government will not tolerate different customs rules across the border. Any fool could see that the propsed compromise, euphemistically called "regulatory divergence" effectively removing Irish border controls , would lead to Scotland Wales and even London demanding the same treatment and an Ulster Unionist veto. As I see it the government is too weak and inflexible to revisit it's red lines, partly to a botched election. What I also find extraordinary is that O Jeremy Corbyn prefers to leave the EU , like most on the far-left he sees e the EU as a boss's / globalist business organisation, a cross-party approach would have worked, possibly, but no this tightwadded administrated doesn't want the help.
Am I the only one thinking this?
What does the forum say?