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Gina Miller on Hunt/Johnson delusions


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Excellent article by Gina Miller on some 'awkward' facts;

 

They welcome their witching hour of 11pm on 31 October becoming Independence Day, as if it’s some sort of Hollywood blockbuster, with no deal.

 

If only will was reality. There is a raft of legislation required even in a no-deal scenario – for example bills on agriculture, fisheries, financial services, trade and immigration. So, too, the vexed question of the Irish border. Boris Johnson, like an overexcited puppy when interviewed by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg this week, grabbed this bone and enthused about “abundant, abundant technical fixes that can be introduced to make sure that you don’t have to have checks at the border”. Johnson is not one to worry about details, given the fact that in January Sabine Weyand, the EU’s deputy negotiator, said: “We’ve looked at every border on this Earth, every border the EU has with a third country – there’s simply no way you can do away with checks and controls.”

 

I do not doubt that there are many countries that will wish to trade with the UK post-Brexit, but understandably they will wait to see what the UK’s ultimate relationship with Europe will be. WTO members will be watching Britain’s diplomatic behaviour closely. How the new prime minister and his government conduct themselves, especially if they refuse to pay the £39bn bill, will have a serious impact – and possibly make us devoid of international goodwill.

 

Meanwhile, though the prime minister will change, the arithmetic in parliament won’t. And there will be just 20 sitting days to the end of October to resolve the hornets’ nest of issues – and no one on the EU side of the table to renegotiate with until mid-November at the earliest.

 

But let’s not be bothered with mere details. Who needs policies and practical solutions – sheer force of personality will win the day. Why worry that we would be poorer and less safe than we are today?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/27/brexit-fantasy-boris-johnson-jeremy-hunt

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Good article. Sadly wasted on here and it would be wasted on someone like Doris as well at the moment at least. Sooner or later though they are going to have to look at the details and this is when it will get interesting. Boris will flap and I suspect the smiles and bravado will slip as he realises crashing out ill prepared will finish him.
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Barryd999 - 2019-06-28 9:01 AM

 

Good article. Sadly wasted on here and it would be wasted on someone like Doris as well at the moment at least. Sooner or later though they are going to have to look at the details and this is when it will get interesting. Boris will flap and I suspect the smiles and bravado will slip as he realises crashing out ill prepared will finish him.

 

Funny thing is ;-) .......

 

I reckon the EU are ruing the day they didn't give Cameron a better deal >:-) ........

 

They made the cardinal mistake of thinking us Brits were "European" and forgot how belligerent we can be ;-) .......

 

 

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