It depends on your point of view. The kindly gesture from Merkel backed up by Macron that Boris had 30 days to come up with a workable and legal alternative to the backstop seemed to some as a chink of light and a sign that at last the wall of refusal so skillfully built by […]
I use the plural because there are so many. Brexit, Constitution, Ireland, Parliament, underfunding of Public Services, Social Care are just the main centres of a gathering storm. So far the Boris government has had a pretty free rein with parliament in recess. The new team of campaigners and ministers surrounding him have kept up […]
So why is it still very likely and why has it not been stopped? Because the majority of MPs who are either against Brexit altogether, for a negotiated deal which does not wreck the economy, for a people’s vote, or for recalling Article 50 cannot arrive at a compromise and united position. They are bordering […]
The news from the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that there will be no trade deal with the UK if the Good Friday Agreement is compromised is a devastating blow to the whole Johnson government’s unreal no deal Brexit strategy. Any kind of border that is a border in law, will breach the GFA, meaning there […]
Yes it is. And it may not be a bad thing. First we have to look at the Brexit situation, now polarised between only two realistic options. A No Deal Brexit, or recalling Article 50. The quagmire in the middle, with all its threads, nuances and grandstanders, has been trampled out of realistic existence. Negotiating […]