Frost damage......
I don’t normally blog on a Sunday but Lord Frost just keeps on giving. Now he has resigned because the government isn’t libertarian or Thatcherite enough.
This is like the captain of the Titanic resigning after hitting the iceberg because he is unhappy about the future of passenger ship safety regulations.
But the truth is that Lord Frost et al have found Brexit impossible to deliver for two reasons, everyone was promised everything and can’t have it and the winners can’t agree on what form of Brexit to go for.
The fantasy one which is impossible because it would destroy the country or the practical one which is impossible because it actually means getting on with the UK’s neighbours (and we can’t have that now can we?).
The PM is gradually leaning towards the latter and Lord Frost knows the ultras will hate him for that and try to destroy him, like they have the last two Tory PMs.
Now he can join them in sniping at the PM and the government for not being pure enough, wash his hands of the mess he helped create and blame everything on the “fact” that he was held back by traitors just when he had the EU on the ropes (as if).
The stab-in-the-back myth has another recruit. Since what they want is impossible all Brexiteers will soon be members.
This madness will run for decades, a great country brought low by the internecine infighting of a sect.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.