05-12-2018, 17:30
I don't think No Deal can be dead, because despite Grieve the peeve, Leaving at the end of March passed into Law. And Law trumps everything - even the Duke of Edinburgh and Sooty and Sweep.
So, as I can't see Parliament agreeing anything in the way of a deal, even though it now thinks it is assuming control, all I can see big enough to justify a change to the law is NOT LEAVING at all.
So we either leave with no deal, basically by complete default, whilst we are all arguing in a heap. Or we revoke our Article 50 having changed our own law (if we happen to be well-enough organised to do it).
If we were ever serious about Leaving shouldn't we have started by planning what to do in the event of a No-Deal scenario to give the EU an incentive to negotiate? As it is they just ran down the clock to put pressure on us to agree any old thing and May has been running down the clock to get her party to agree the any old thing she's happily allowed them to cobble together to throw us. And the clock, as clocks do, it just carries on oblivious.
Now by sheer inaction we've turned No Deal into the cliff edge that was originally fake news, Brexit has been successfully blindfolded, formerly unacceptable options like Norway, Switzerland and Canada are kind of on the table again and Not-Leaving-at-all, which was impossible after the referendum, is coming up fast, although no one can quite work out how get to the position of achieving the Revocation of Article 50 now being dangled in front of us (like rancid Danish bacon?).
The French set fire to the Champs Elysee over fuel prices FFS, so I'm just wondering what colour vests we should wear when we take to the streets to stop the clocks? Being out-manoeuvred by Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk is hardly what you'd want on your CV now is it?
So, as I can't see Parliament agreeing anything in the way of a deal, even though it now thinks it is assuming control, all I can see big enough to justify a change to the law is NOT LEAVING at all.
So we either leave with no deal, basically by complete default, whilst we are all arguing in a heap. Or we revoke our Article 50 having changed our own law (if we happen to be well-enough organised to do it).
If we were ever serious about Leaving shouldn't we have started by planning what to do in the event of a No-Deal scenario to give the EU an incentive to negotiate? As it is they just ran down the clock to put pressure on us to agree any old thing and May has been running down the clock to get her party to agree the any old thing she's happily allowed them to cobble together to throw us. And the clock, as clocks do, it just carries on oblivious.
Now by sheer inaction we've turned No Deal into the cliff edge that was originally fake news, Brexit has been successfully blindfolded, formerly unacceptable options like Norway, Switzerland and Canada are kind of on the table again and Not-Leaving-at-all, which was impossible after the referendum, is coming up fast, although no one can quite work out how get to the position of achieving the Revocation of Article 50 now being dangled in front of us (like rancid Danish bacon?).
The French set fire to the Champs Elysee over fuel prices FFS, so I'm just wondering what colour vests we should wear when we take to the streets to stop the clocks? Being out-manoeuvred by Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk is hardly what you'd want on your CV now is it?