Exit Brexit to lessen damage
The panic response of the last few days to the looming deadline shows us very clearly who is in charge in these negotiations – the EU.
The UK has been forced to back down on all the main issues: A divorce bill that is at the top of the end of the range, the European Court of Justice retains jurisdiction in the UK and an agreement to no physical border in the island of Ireland.
No doubt this will all be claimed as a victory by the leavers. But, their backstop argument appears to have changed from ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ to ‘any deal is better than being in the EU’. This clearly shows the illogicality of their argument, which has not really moved on from the ‘£350m a week’ claim, as Boris Johnson reiterated recently.
His attempts to distance himself from the ‘whistle’ comment clearly show his lack of logic. The £350m is a gross amount, the £55bn is a net, which is equivalent to £89bn gross. This may sound familiar, it should be, it is within the range he was referring to in his defence – £80bn to £100bn.
This is leading us into a clear position of being unable to negotiate a deal over trade. We will be forced to accept whatever the EU offers. We have nine months to complete these negotiations, and the omens are not good.
However, we can cut this all short now, we can Exit Brexit. Gove has said the British people can make that decision at the next General Election. By then much of the damage will have been implemented, or transitioned as May likes to say. We need to Exit Brexit now, while a lot of the damage can be easily repaired.
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