Brexit in Chaos

In the fog of what has become the Brexit battle it is hard to tell, as May confronts her fellow EU leaders in an attempt to get her way and move on to talks about transition, where we are headed. What we do know is we are lost in that fog close to a cliff.

Nevertheless there are some scraps, which put together, can tell us something. The hard Brexiteers are frantically writing letters and sounding off to urge we walk away. Towards the cliff. They say it is only a little jump to the sunny beach below. They urge us thus because the greatest fear tears at their hearts and invades their sleep in the small hours of each night. Their absurd project is in trouble.

There is no longer a majority in the country for Brexit, which latest polls confirm most people now think is a mistake. There is no majority for it in Parliament either. It might just be possible to gain acceptance for a sensible Brexit which leaves most of our current status intact, while detaching the political class from a say in the future.

On the other hand it may very well be that having realised the impact on jobs, living standards and prospects of all of us and the under 50s in particular, people then will focus on the advantages of European citizenship and the empowerment given by electing members of the European Parliament. Because whilst old people may hark back to some Utopia which was never there, the young look forward to a future which could be a great deal better. Not by standing alone in the corner, but by embracing the European family of which we are all a part.

That is when this whole folly will collapse. Brexit will be over.