Now The Judiciary Is Worried

In the beginning, after the referendum, the Brexiteers were cock a hoop and making the running. What a difference now. Not only was there a general election disaster, but since then muddle and confusion within the government has mired the Brexit negotiations in a quicksand of real issues demanding much more than quips and slogans to resolve.

Meanwhile criticism is piling in on all sides about uncertainty of purpose and lack of clarity in defining objectives. Brexiteers fear a sell out so that the whole project is either watered down or abandoned. Remainers fear chaos in negotiations leading to a cliff edge exit. Now the President of the Supreme Court has weighed in demanding Parliament get a grip over the ECJ and its future role in our law. No wonder. Because the plain fact is that although we may leave the EU, the EU will remain. And if we step outside our own borders for business, vacation, education or whatever, it will be into the jurisdictions of all the EU’s political, financial, trade and judicial institutions. The only difference will be that we no longer have power or influence over what they do or how they treat us.

In other words you can leave the party if you want to but the party goes on.