The level of incompetence that this Government brings to the business of Brexit is staggering, and it seems to get worse by the day. But is it perhaps a cunning plan?
Given the demands of the ultra Brexiteers I always thought the UK would leave without a deal, and I was very pleasantly surprised to be proved wrong; the deal is awful, negotiated by people who have no idea of how trade or the EU work, but it is a deal. For some Brexiteers that is obviously a problem, they want no deal at all and they haven’t given up hope yet.
That is why the weekend papers were full of opinion pieces denouncing the EU, the Northern Ireland Protocol, border checks, the French etc etc. They are preparing the ground for the UK to tear up the NIP and walk away, a move that would destroy the whole deal with the EU.
It also wouldn’t solve the Northern Ireland border problem but these people don’t care, in their sad little world, the EU has stopped the UK from really and totally leaving. It helps explain the complete incompetence of the Government, perhaps it is deliberately sabotaging its own deal.
So, rather worryingly, I might have been right all after all.
https://jonty.substack.com/