WHAT NOW WITH BREXIT

Looking to the future relationship between the UK/ EU and bearing in mind all these past failures I hope that lessons have been learnt. The Remainers in Parliament are 70% of MPs and they will continue to try and frustrate exiting the EU

By not discussing the indicative Motion E on Wednesday that asked the HoC to confirm the vote by 17.4m in the 2016 Referendum to LEAVE the EU  they more or less said they will ignore that vote (I accept that it is the Speaker who decides what amendments are debated BUT MPs could have changed that in these unusual circumstances

The government therefore needs a detailed strategic plan setting out what the objective must be to have a relationship with the EU that will benefit. That plan must be agreed and implemented  by all

In my view the EU already know what they want and unless they achieve that the negotiations will fester on for years

The Attorney General is right that the conditions set out in his first opinion on the Withdrawal Agreement (that the UK will be trapped).

If the government is to mitigate that position some sharp thinking will be needed.  

Knowing how the Commission works, and understanding that the Withdrawal Agreement is under Union Law that will be adjudicated not by UK domestic law by our Judges but by the ECJ under strict Union Law, the future relationship must be concluded within the implementation period.

Note there is no deadline for Union Law to cease and in the WA clause that before the UK can leave there has to be a joint decision – actually that the EU has to give its permission and that will only be given once the EU has extracted exactly what they want

That clause is the failure of the government’s position

The ANSWER is the reject the Withdrawal Agreement and LEAVE the EU on WTO terms (that is not crashing out as the UK’s trading arrangements with other parts of the world are conducted in this way)