[Devongone]

I'm convinced that the No-Deal cliff edge scenario always WAS a heap of crap. The whole of the rest of the world is in a no-deal position and has to make deals. But with people like Grayling (the Forrest Gump of the Cabinet) pulling out the chocolates ready for No-Deal I've no confidence that statements like 90% of statutory instruments necessary are in place are any more accurate and meaningful than a government asserting that spending on education is higher than ever before. And May seems determined to deliberately build an actual cliff edge of no-deal disaster to contrast with her shit deal ........

You didn't need to be perceptive to realise that getting a good deal to leave from people who want you to stay was going to be difficult. Surely in those circumstances rigorous preparations to leave without a deal should have started immediately, so we'd be ahead of the game? And it can't do any harm in negotiations for the other side to be aware that you actually believe leave means leave can it? Truth is we never had belief or credibility. And the result is we've created a position in which we'll be better off to stay home as the silent idiot child of the family, fed and watered but disregarded when big decisions come to be made, than to go out into the world.

Has Mrs May simply been a useful idiot? The unwitting tool used accidentally to dismantle Brexit?