stowie
Active Member
Sooo.... Brexit continues to stagger around aimlessly like a bad 50's B movie Zombie where the best thing for all involved would be to put it out of its misery but no-one can conjure the courage to do so.
We are now at the stage where the "oven-ready Brexit" is being decried as a pile of steaming turds and unpicked by the very same people who negotiated it in the first place. MPs who scorned the need for more time to scrutinise the agreement are now crying about not have really understood it. Brexity sectors such as fishing and farming had been told they were really, really important and Brexit was going to be utterly briiiiliant for them. And now they realise they are being royally screwed. Not the Brexit they voted for, although what they actually did vote for seems rather unclear. Farage - who couldn't stop himself shouting "fish" at every opportunity - has farked off to loom up in between our cuddly kitten YouTube videos trying to sell something about finance which, ironically, seems more fishy than the fishing industry he helped screw over. Johnson is no longer waving kippers around at conferences. "Global Britain" bigly trade deals are either a distant memory. The ones that have been put into place are no longer mentioned or quietly being re-negotiated because conducting international trade negotiations in a compressed timescale dictated by political photo ops results in shoot deals. Who knew, eh?
"Global Brexit Britain" is cast adrift moving from established trade deal to established trade deal asking if we can join their gang. A US-UK bigly trade deal is the way forward. Oh, no they don't give a shoot. OK, how about the Asia trade pacts. Ooh we will bounce back over the Pacific to NAFTA. Ooh maybe the Galactic Empire wants to play with Global Brexit Britain. None of the proposals really sticking because they make very little sense outside a breathless Daily Mail headline.
Brexiteer headbangers like the ERG know time is not on their side. Poll ratings concerning Brexit are going one way and not in their favour. The demographics are not going to slow that process. They need to really fark the UK-EU relationship to make sure that any negotiation for closer ties in the future is made as difficult as possible. The equivalent of blowing up bridges during the retreat.
Meanwhile Johnson is surrounding himself with people whose only quality is to have even less capability to do his job that him. And Johnson himself reverts to what he does best. Flinging a seemingly inexhaustible supply of dead cats onto the table to distract from the fact that he is both a total shitbag and wildly incompetent. A fantastic opportunity for the Labour party to capitalise on the chaos. Which they do by doing what they do best. Splitting into factions. One half of the party has decided the best route to victory is to say as little as possible about anything, whilst the other half are pining for a Leader that lost two elections, one of which was won by a party who conducted a campaign that was almost willfully designed to lose. Oh, and the Lib-Dems. No, me neither.
We are now at the stage where the "oven-ready Brexit" is being decried as a pile of steaming turds and unpicked by the very same people who negotiated it in the first place. MPs who scorned the need for more time to scrutinise the agreement are now crying about not have really understood it. Brexity sectors such as fishing and farming had been told they were really, really important and Brexit was going to be utterly briiiiliant for them. And now they realise they are being royally screwed. Not the Brexit they voted for, although what they actually did vote for seems rather unclear. Farage - who couldn't stop himself shouting "fish" at every opportunity - has farked off to loom up in between our cuddly kitten YouTube videos trying to sell something about finance which, ironically, seems more fishy than the fishing industry he helped screw over. Johnson is no longer waving kippers around at conferences. "Global Britain" bigly trade deals are either a distant memory. The ones that have been put into place are no longer mentioned or quietly being re-negotiated because conducting international trade negotiations in a compressed timescale dictated by political photo ops results in shoot deals. Who knew, eh?
"Global Brexit Britain" is cast adrift moving from established trade deal to established trade deal asking if we can join their gang. A US-UK bigly trade deal is the way forward. Oh, no they don't give a shoot. OK, how about the Asia trade pacts. Ooh we will bounce back over the Pacific to NAFTA. Ooh maybe the Galactic Empire wants to play with Global Brexit Britain. None of the proposals really sticking because they make very little sense outside a breathless Daily Mail headline.
Brexiteer headbangers like the ERG know time is not on their side. Poll ratings concerning Brexit are going one way and not in their favour. The demographics are not going to slow that process. They need to really fark the UK-EU relationship to make sure that any negotiation for closer ties in the future is made as difficult as possible. The equivalent of blowing up bridges during the retreat.
Meanwhile Johnson is surrounding himself with people whose only quality is to have even less capability to do his job that him. And Johnson himself reverts to what he does best. Flinging a seemingly inexhaustible supply of dead cats onto the table to distract from the fact that he is both a total shitbag and wildly incompetent. A fantastic opportunity for the Labour party to capitalise on the chaos. Which they do by doing what they do best. Splitting into factions. One half of the party has decided the best route to victory is to say as little as possible about anything, whilst the other half are pining for a Leader that lost two elections, one of which was won by a party who conducted a campaign that was almost willfully designed to lose. Oh, and the Lib-Dems. No, me neither.
