Brexit Negotiations: The Path To the Vassal State

After two major government meetings, of the Brexit Cabinet and the full Cabinet, we are back in the old quagmire of GB seeking to negotiate something which  has already been signed away and because the EU will never agree anyway.

To get the Ireland deal we have agreed that if no Brexit deal is fixed, we will synch our regulations to match those of the EU, so that we can have open borders between Ireland and GB and GB and the EU.  We will, in all but name, continue to be Europeans and will remain part of our heritage of the European family.  To get any other deal we will have to remain in the customs union and single market. Anything else will for sure cost us, for decades, much more than the gains promised us by the fraudster Brexiteers.

For ordinary people this is fine, because it will mean that there will be no economic of social disadvantages and life as we know it will carry on. The only difference is that for most practical purposes we will be governed from Brussels, because Whitehall will no longer have a seat at the table which makes the rules, or judges among the courts which enforce them.  Those rules will inform most aspects of daily life. This could be a blessing owing to the appalling quality of our own governments of many years.

But for the political class it is a catastrophe, stripping them of almost all their power. When it becomes clear to everybody that the real choice is between social isolation with economic ruin, or a subject state of a mighty Europe dominated by France and Germany, Brexit will come under attack from all wings and persuasions for differing but valid reasons and it will implode.

As we have said over and over. In the terms in which it was offered, it was never there.