I think it has become abundantly clear to one and all that the UK contingent supposedly representing the British people in what is euphemistically referred to as 'Brexit' discussions, had no plan at the outset, have no plan now and if they continue attending these 'discussions' they will simply embarrass the nation further.
What kind of policy is it that demands all the benefits of EU membership but without free movement, without regard to the ECJ, without respect for EU & British citizens rights outside of their own country and demanding to have all those things for free?
Really, what is the point? We reached an impasse after the first round of discussions and no progress has been made since. In simple terms, the British case appears to be the equivalent of, 'We really don't like our neighbours so we're going to burn our house down - that'll show them!'
If the British side has nothing further to add to the mess in Brussels, they should be called back and we should simply say goodbye and prove how clever we are via the hardest of 'Brexits'. In one regard, it will be heartening to see Farage and all the other MEPs redundant and without a salary and expenses ordinary people can only dream of.
Th notion from May about an extended transitional period is ludicrous in the extreme as the government knew exactly what the rules were before they decided to invoke the Article 50 provisions, the date of which was something that was within their gift to determine. To then send a collection of intellectually bankrupt dunderheads to 'negotiate' god knows what is insulting to the other 27 sovereign nation states, as well as an embarrassment to the good people of the UK.
The government's huge propaganda wing may attempt to spin every aspect of this tragedy to make the public believe that the EU are the bad guys in what has now deteriorated into something akin to a Pythonesque comedy sketch but even the thickest of the 'Brexidiots' will see through that.....and still go along with it!
The less than 'Independent' news purveyor reports in this way today:
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I bet Mrs May goes to bed every night and dreams that she will wake up to find the Argentinians have invaded the Falklands again.......mind you, she isn't as lucky as Thatcher was in that regard; we don't have the logistics any more to mount a similar defence of people claiming to be British while having no intention of ever living in this country or contributing to it in any way.
She really is a 'dead man walking' and I'm sure we will discover who her executioner will be in the very near future. Some say that Alec Douglas-Home was the worst PM in our history; others say it was Anthony Eden. For me, that ignominious accolade belongs with the current incumbent who makes both David Cameron and Tony Blair look like intelligent professionals and I don't expect to receive much criticism for that remark.
Tom
