During this period of intense interest in our own decision to leave the EU we have not really been interested in what’s going on on the other side of the Atlantic. But Mr Trump has been having a bad few days. News reports tell us that a move to impeach him is now under way. Word of this having reached the president he has now gone back to calling himself a very stable genius. Twitter has reacted to this with some fury...and he has no one else to blame but himself as he conducts his personal story as well as the political one by tweeting about it rather than holding serious press conferences.
He is of course backing Boris as a fellow sufferer of criticism . And it is true that they are both in trouble right now. But Trump thinks that by standing by his friend Boris he will help him . This may not work as well as he clearly thinks. On this side of the Atlantic we have been totally involved in what is happening in our decision to leave the EU. We have had little news of Trumps latest problems. On my iPad I have a Fox News App which I open every day having got caught up with this on various cruises. It is not possible to feel sorry for Mr Trump when you read his latest tweets....the very fact that this is still his chosen way of communication is startling...
Our own Prime Minister thankfully does not follow this example...but he is still in some trouble...the headline from today’s Guardian states,"Dismay in Brussels as Johnson reveals his Brexit Plan." That he actually has a plan is good news for most of us after seeing him searching for the right words to cover the mess we are in just now.
Quite how all this is going to work out is still not clear...to me anyway... we seem to be leaving most of the time but still expecting to go on as usual without any commitment to Europe. It’s very unsettling...waiting to see how it’s going to affect us all. Leaving all the decisions to the very last moment doesn’t make any sort of sense but this is where we seem to be right now.
Trump and Boris don’t fill me with any confidence. Especially if they are talking to each other....chaos seems looming...
I hope I’ve got it all wrong....
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I don't understand the proposed deal either. It all seems "pie in the sky" and not a realistic solution to the backstop issue on the Irish Border.
The insistence of people that this is a way forward seems to be bluster and a delaying tactic. I find those proposing it to be spouting nonsense, particularly Gove who is supposedly managing an orderly exit if no deal happens?
And the mantra of we are leaving on 31 October continues, despite the PM saying that he will write the letter asking for an extension if a deal isn't agreed by 17th October. And his scruffy sidekick, the unelected Dominic Cummings seems to hold all of the cards. He is adamant that they can obey the law, but avoid the consequences by some clever interpretation of the law - meaning avoiding actually doing anything meaningful to ask for an extension.
The parties who are stopping a general election should be kicking themselves, because this could have been resolved by an election on 14th October, if they'd not wanted to employ vague tactics to put in an interim PM having sacked Boris. But they cant agree on anything.
I find Parliament to be broken and needing urgent reform, but those within it won't sign their own demise, because most of them wont come back after a general election.
It is a mess, entirely of our own making. David Cameron is to blame and the former Prime Ministers like Brown, Blair and Major have interfered as well, just muddying the waters. Have they not heard of dignified silence?
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