I had a lovely day yesterday having lunch with a very old friend in the next village...we talked non stop whilst we strolled to the pub , ate our lunch and walked back. I returned home convinced that all was well with the world...of course it was....
It didn’t take long though last night to convince me that chaos was looming. This morning this conviction goes on. So many things are changing or are lined up for change. Our new Prime Minister seems intent on bringing us chaos. Leaving Europe on a no deal Brexit seems daft to me. Why would any normal government do it? The impact of no deal could hurt so many people. Disruption is not good for anyone. So why is our PM determined to do it?
Presumably he thinks it’s what he promised us and that promise must be kept at all cost. But the cost may be far more than we can cope with. It seems dangerous to me but then I was and still am a remainer. In the effort to try to leave Europe in order to start building this brave new world glimpsed dimly in the distance he seems willing to plunge the entire country into chaos. And there may be time to do this during the parliamentary recess. With no safeguards that parliament can impose Boris clearly sees the opportunity to get all his promises fulfilled. But does the country want this sort of chaos which experts are telling us is inevitable.
We surely didn’t vote for chaos. We clearly need an election now if all of this is happening as a result of the referendum. But we surely didn’t vote for any of this looming chaos.
I am listening to people trying to reassure us that yes...we will be getting Brexit soon. I am not reassured. I suspect that few people are. Getting Boris waving his arms, promising us wonderful things is not giving me any peace of mind, It feels like chaos. I hope it’s not. Replacing Mrs May with Boris may have looked like a reasonable adventure last week. But this week chaos seems looming. I blame the heat wave.
Nothing right now feels right in government. All these young men trying to convince us that all is well in our world are not actually succeeding with me. But then I didn’t vote for any of it....
That’s democracy for us. Help!
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No deal BREXIT.
What will that result in?
We will be up that brown smelly creek without the paddle or the canoe ��������
Having read much of what has been said on this subject I am actually frightened that in order to be seen keeping his promises our PM will plunge us all into chaos with far too little thought for the consequences. Someone must be able to make Boris aware of the danger...this effects us all, old and young alike. Midsummer madness has begun!
BoJo the BoZo.
Tories don't mind and we don't matter.
He is a mendacious duplicitous selfservative.
It seems to me that the PM actually wants a deal, but on his terms. He wants to be rid of the backstop, which has been as the seat of all of the debate and discord in and out of Parliament over the last few months and led to Mrs May's demise.
Europe is saying Non! Which reminds me of what General DeGaule said when we first applied to join Europe - he didn't want the UK in the Common Market (as it was in those days). He felt that we would be too disruptive and in many ways, he was right.
Now that is coming home to roost. The EU is relying on the fact that a deal was signed by Mrs May, before it ever passed Parliament. They are holding us to that without any movement whatsoever, meaning that it seems that they want "No Deal" as well? Perhaps it suits their purpose for us to have to come back after a chaotic exit, "cap in hand" to beg for the crumbs dropping from the table.
There is arrogance from Mr Johnson and also from the EU. If both wanted a deal, they would get around the table and discuss, but there appears to be personalities involved from both sides, perhaps they don't particularly like each other.
The EU leadership changes from November, when new people take up the leadership positions, but that is too late for the UK, who are determined to leave by 31st October.
If Mr Johnson has any sense he would ask for an extension for a month or so, to try to negotiate with the new leadership team. There are signs that they might be more amenable for a revision of the "dead" deal.
All we can do is to spectate and pray, while the "Grandee's" posture and boast, which brings us to the brink of disaster.
To my mind is Boris's agenda is that he wants to leave without a deal and be seen as the great leader, who managed to get us out, and save 39 billion in the process. Meaning that cash is available to be splashed around and to have a General Election of the back of it, to give the tories an overall majority. Its a dangerous game indeed. There is no certainty of that outcome, as Mrs May found to her cost when she called a snap election and burned her fingers and lost an overall majority as a consequence, which directly led to what is going on now.
Risking the future of the UK on a personal agenda is unfitting of any leader, so Mr Johnson should bite the bullet and genuinely seek a change which might take some time. Hence a further extension.
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